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By Beth Ridgeway  NASA’s Student Launch competition celebrated its 25th anniversary on May 4, just north of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, bringing together more than 980 middle school, high school, college, and university students from across the U.S. to showcase and launch their high-powered rocketry designs.
Posted June 16, 2025
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Quasars
Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
A black hole has blasted out a surprisingly powerful jet in the distant universe, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and discussed in our latest press release. This jet exists early enough in the cosmos that it is being illuminated by the leftover glow from the big bang itself. Astronomers used […]
Posted June 9, 2025
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Science Research & Projects
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Universe
What happens when the universe’s most magnetic object shines with the power of 1,000 Suns in a matter of seconds? Thanks to NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), a mission in collaboration with ASI (Italian Space Agency), scientists are one step closer to understanding this extreme event.  Magnetars are a type of young neutron star […]
Posted June 5, 2025
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Galaxies
Galaxy clusters
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
The Universe
New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: two galaxy clusters have collided and are now poised to head back for another swipe at each other. Galaxy clusters are some of the largest structures in the Universe.
Posted June 4, 2025
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Neutron Stars
Pulsars
Stars
The Universe
Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects. As described in our press release, a team of astronomers combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the SKA [Square Kilometer Array] Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope on Wajarri Country in […]
Posted May 28, 2025
Low Earth Orbit Economy
Commercial Space
Humans in Space
Johnson Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA-supported commercial space station, Vast’s Haven-1, recently completed a test of a critical air filter system for keeping future astronauts healthy in orbit. Testing confirmed the system can maintain a safe and healthy atmosphere for all planned Haven-1 mission phases.
Posted May 28, 2025
Space Launch System (SLS)
Artemis
Artemis 2
Artemis 3
Humans in Space
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA completed another step to ready its SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the Artemis III mission as crews at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans recently applied a thermal protection system to the core stage’s liquid hydrogen tank. Building on the crewed Artemis II flight test, Artemis III will add new capabilities […]
Posted May 13, 2025
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Marshall Space Flight Center
Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad at NASA’s 2025 Student Launch launch day competition in Toney, Alabama, on May 4, 2025.
Posted May 10, 2025
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Science Research & Projects
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA released three new pieces of cosmic sound Thursday that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our universe: black holes.
Posted May 8, 2025
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