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Space Exploration May 7, 2024

Boeing Starliner crewed mission postponed until at least Friday

The first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner spaceship will have to wait until at least Friday to give ground teams time to analyze a malfunctioning rocket valve, pushing back a high-stakes test trip to the International ...

Space Exploration May 7, 2024

Billionaire's 2nd SpaceX trip featuring spacewalk aims for early summer launch

Billionaire Jared Issacman, who flew to space once with SpaceX, is already set for launch No. 2 in early summer.

Astronomy May 7, 2024

Hubble views a galaxy with a voracious black hole

Bright, starry spiral arms surround an active galactic center in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy NGC 4951.

Astronomy May 7, 2024

How NASA's Roman mission will hunt for primordial black holes

Astronomers have discovered black holes ranging from a few times the sun's mass to tens of billions. Now a group of scientists has predicted that NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could find a class of "featherweight" ...

Space Exploration May 7, 2024

Boeing Starliner crewed mission postponed shortly before launch

The first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner spaceship was dramatically called off just two hours before launch after a new safety issue was identified, officials said Monday, pushing back a high-stakes test mission to the ...

Space Exploration May 6, 2024

Shining a light on untapped lunar resources

Near the moon's south pole lies a 13-mile wide, 2.5-mile-deep crater known as Shackleton, named for Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. Shackleton—and craters like it—may contain untapped resources that can be accessed ...

Astronomy May 6, 2024

New black hole visualization takes viewers beyond the brink

Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole's point of no return.

Space Exploration May 6, 2024

Boeing's first Starliner mission with humans set for historic Space Coast launch tonight

The stage is set for some space history to be made tonight as two veteran NASA astronauts aim to launch in a spacecraft that has never flown with humans before.

Astronomy May 6, 2024

Astronomers observe elusive stellar light surrounding ancient quasars

MIT astronomers have observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe. The distant signals, which trace back more than 13 billion years to the universe's infancy, are revealing clues ...

Planetary Sciences May 6, 2024

Scientists' research answers big question about our system's largest planet

New discoveries about Jupiter could lead to a better understanding of Earth's own space environment and influence a long-running scientific debate about the solar system's largest planet.

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