Space
Rare Type of Black Hole Snacks on Star
Rare Type of Black Hole Snacks on Star NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have identified a new possible example of an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) called NGC 6099 HLX-1. The IMBH, which weighs between 100-100,000 times the mass of our Sun, is thought to reside in a compact star cluster within a […]
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Returns, Splashes Down Off California
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Returns, Splashes Down Off California NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Mission Returns to Earth The mission, which launched on March 14, 2025, successfully completed its 10th commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station. The crew of four astronauts – Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi, and Kirill Peskov – splashed down […]
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NASA Invites Media to View Heliophysics, NOAA Space Weather Missions
NASA Invites Media to View Heliophysics, NOAA Space Weather Missions NASA invites media to view three upcoming space missions: IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory. The missions will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space […]
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Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell
Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell NASA Administrator Sean Duffy has released a statement reflecting on the legacy of astronaut Jim Lovell, who passed away on August 7 at the age of 97. Jim Lovell was a pioneering astronaut who played a crucial role in NASA’s historic Apollo missions, including Gemini […]
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Hubble Captures a Tarantula
Hubble Captures a Tarantula Hubble has captured an incredible image of the Tarantula Nebula, a star-forming factory located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Tarantula Nebula is home to massive stars, some 200 times as massive as our Sun, and features rare types of stars like Wolf-Rayet stars that have lost their […]
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US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake
US-French SWOT Satellite Measures Tsunami After Massive Quake The US-French SWOT satellite successfully measured tsunami waves after a massive earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on July 30, providing crucial data for improving tsunami forecast models. The satellite captured the leading edge of the tsunami wave about 70 minutes after the earthquake struck, revealing a wave […]
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Three NASA Langley Employees Win Prestigious Silver Snoopy Awards
Three NASA Langley Employees Win Prestigious Silver Snoopy Awards NASA Langley Research Center employees Christopher Broadaway, Jeremy Shidner, and Sara R. Wilson have won the prestigious Silver Snoopy Award for their exceptional achievements related to spaceflight safety or mission success. The award is given personally by NASA astronauts and is presented to less than one […]
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Team identifies the universe’s earliest confirmed black hole
Team identifies the universe’s earliest confirmed black hole A team of astronomers has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed, located 500 million years after the Big Bang, at a distance of 13.3 billion years into the past. The discovery was made using data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s CAPERS program and provides […]
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NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-10 Return, Splashdown
NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-10 Return, Splashdown NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission is targeting an undocking from the International Space Station at no earlier than 6:05 p.m. EDT on Friday, Aug. 8, and a splashdown off the California coast at 11:33 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 9. The crew of four astronauts – Anne McClain, Nichole […]
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NASA’s Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin
NASA’s Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found strong evidence for a gas giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the closest solar twin to Earth at 4 light-years away. The planet, estimated to be about the mass of Saturn, orbits Alpha Centauri A in an […]
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