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NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2026

NASA Exoplanet Science Institute • March 25th, 2026

Journey to Center of Milky Way With Upcoming NASA Roman Core Survey

IPAC News • January 23rd, 2026

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide the deepest-ever view of this zone, revealing stars, planets, and unique objects that resist definition.

Liftoff of Pandora - NASA’s Newest Planet-Observing Satellite

NASA Exoplanet Archive • January 12th, 2026

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Pandora small satellite lifted off at 5:44 a.m. PST Sunday, Jan. 11, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base located on California’s central coast.

Astronomers Discover the First Galaxy-wide Wobbling Black Hole Jet in a Disk Galaxy

IPAC News • January 8th, 2026

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of super-heated gas ever observed flowing from a nearby galaxy, providing the clearest evidence yet that a supermassive black hole can dramatically reshape its host galaxy far...

Young Galaxies Grow Up Fast

ALMA Large Program to Investigate C+ at Early Times • January 8th, 2026

Astronomers have captured the most detailed look yet at faraway galaxies at the peak of their youth, an active time when the adolescent galaxies were fervently producing new stars. The observations focused on 18 galaxies located 12.5 billion light-years away.

We finally know how the most common types of planets are created

IPAC News • January 7th, 2026

Four baby planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes form.