Chandra Announcement: NASA Awards Prize Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2026

[Tara Gokas]

NASA Awards Prize Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2026

NASA has announced 24 new fellows to the 2026 class of the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP). The NHFP fosters excellence and leadership in astrophysics by supporting exceptionally promising and innovative early-career astrophysicists. This highly competitive program received more than 650 applications for this year’s class, representing an oversubscription rate of 27 to 1.

Each fellow is awarded up to three years of support at a U.S. institution to pursue independent astrophysics research. Once selected, fellows are named to one of three sub-categories corresponding to three broad scientific questions that NASA seeks to answer about the universe:

How does the universe work? – Einstein Fellows

How did we get here? – Hubble Fellows

Are we alone? – Sagan Fellows

The Chandra X-ray Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts works in collaboration with the Space Telescope Science Institute, the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to oversee the NASA Hubble Fellowships. 

The NASA press release is available at this web site and short bios and photos of the 2026 NHFP Fellows can be found on the NHFP web site.