Tag: NASA

This Hubble Space Telescope archival photo captures a curious linear feature that is so unusual it was first dismissed as an imaging artifact from Hubble's cameras. But follow-up spectroscopic observations reveal it is a 200,000-light-year-long chain of young blue stars. A supermassive black hole lies at the tip of the bridge at lower left.

Hubble Space Telescope captures black hole barreling across space

Brady Knox · April 10, 2023 5:50 pm

Fairness and Justice

Next frontier: NASA sets sights on diversity mission with DEI hires

Breccan F. Thies · April 7, 2023 4:00 am

Zoomed-in image of Uranus, captured by Webbâs Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) Feb. 6, 2023

SEE IT: Stunning images of Uranus and its rings from NASA’s Webb telescope

Jack Birle · April 6, 2023 10:23 pm

Astronaut Reid Wiseman, center, walks past other astronaut candidates to the stage after he is announced as the mission commander during a NASA ceremony naming the four astronauts who will fly around the moon by the end of next year on the Artemis II mission, at a ceremony held in the NASA hangar at Ellington airport Monday, April 3, 2023, in Houston.

NASA struggled to round up astronauts for Artemis II moon mission meeting: Report

Heather Hamilton · April 4, 2023 4:15 pm

This combination of photos shows, from left, astronauts Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman.

NASA announces astronauts for Artemis II mission to the moon

Jack Birle · April 3, 2023 5:26 pm

Ancient Mars

NASA establishes office dedicated to getting astronauts to Mars

Brady Knox · March 31, 2023 8:04 pm

Scientists release images of largest space explosion

Brady Knox · March 30, 2023 3:12 am

People at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., celebrate as the InSight lander touches down on Mars on Monday, Nov. 26, 2018.

Planets on parade: 5 will be lined up in night sky this week

Associated Press · March 26, 2023 5:37 pm

Massive asteroid expected to pass close to Earth on Saturday

Heather Hunter · March 25, 2023 5:16 pm

NASA unveils first major spacesuit redesign in four decades

Brady Knox · March 16, 2023 3:10 pm

SpaceX launch scrubbed minutes before expected takeoff

Jack Birle · February 27, 2023 4:28 pm

Meteorite slams into South Texas with ‘large explosion’

Luke Gentile · February 17, 2023 8:25 pm