Tag: Space
Welcome home! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 completed the agency’s ninth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday, splashing down safe [...]
Star and galaxy, not so close after all
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the constellation Virgo [...]
Webb peers much deeper into Flame Nebula
The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within the Flame Nebu [...]
Supernova could have influenced evolution
The cichlid fish in Lake Tanganyika never knew what was coming. How could they? A star from dozens of lightyears away was to blame for what would soo [...]
Webb brings great detail in actively forming star system
High-resolution near-infrared light captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows extraordinary new detail and structure in Lynds 483 (L483). T [...]
Katy Perry goes to space on Blue Origin rocket
Perry and a celebrity female crew will launch to space with historic all-female crew on Blue Origin's NS-31 mission this spring.
The award-winning [...]
Vast Space will launch commercial space station in 2026
Designing a space station is taking a little longer than Vast expected, but the company is still moving at a breakneck pace.
Vast Space is taking [...]
Hubble investigates galaxy with nine rings
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings af [...]
Hubble spots a supernova
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million light-years away in the c [...]
Webb watches carbon-rich dust shells form, expand in star system
Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, [...]