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NASA studies the universe from the smallest particles of matter and energy to the biggest questions of the evolution and structure of the cosmos.

Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space.

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole.

Even stars that appear static are subject to change -- some because the gas disc from their death throes periodically obscure their brilliance.

A Black Hole and a Cannibal Galaxy

This edge-on galaxy, called ESO 243-49, is home to a mid-sized black hole that may have been stripped off of a cannibalized dwarf galaxy.
A Sheep in Wolf-Rayet's Clothing

Even stars that appear static are subject to change -- some because the gas disc from their death throes periodically obscure their brilliance.
NuSTAR Mated to its Rocket

Mating of NASA's NuSTAR observatory to its Pegasus rocket is underway.
Black History Month - Profile of a Scientist

February is Black History Month, and to mark the occasion, we recently sat down with John Johnson, scientist at NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze

New images from the Planck mission show islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy.

NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space

02.22.12 - Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres had been found only in gas form.
NASA's Chandra Finds Milky Way's Black Hole Grazing on Asteroids

02.08.12 - The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids.

NASACast: Universe

Audio and video podcasts on NASA missions looking for answers deep into the cosmos.