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NASA’s Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System – NASA Science 0
- Astrophysics, Exoplanets, Goddard Space Flight Center, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science & Research, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, The Universe
- July 15, 2026
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an exoplanet, hidden within one of the most intensively studied planetary systems in our Milky Way galaxy. The nearby young star Beta Pictoris was already known to host two giant planets: Beta Pictoris b, one of the first
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NASA’s Roman telescope will detect distant black holes that destroy stars – NASA 0
- & Black Holes, & Black Holes Research, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Galaxies, Goddard Space Flight Center, Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science & Research, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Stars, The Universe
- July 14, 2026
Read this press release in Spanish here. How do black holes in the centers of galaxies form and grow over time? To answer this question, scientists need to detect and study supermassive black holes at great distances, which existed much earlier in the history of the universe. New research suggests that NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman
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NASA Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes – NASA Science 0
- Hubble Space Telescope, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
- July 13, 2026
The enormous globular star cluster Omega Centauri has baffled astronomers for decades. It should be full of black holes left by exploding stars, but the evidence for them is scarce. Now, astronomers using archival data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and supporting observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have finally located their first stellar-mass
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NASA transfers ‘hundred-acre wood’ to Patuxent research refuge – NASA 0

NASA on Tuesday ceremonially transferred ownership of about 105 acres of forested land on the Greenbelt, Maryland, campus of the Goddard Space Flight Center to the adjacent Patuxent Research Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The property, formerly known as NASA Goddard Area 400, is now part of the largest block of