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This article is for students grades 5-8 A black hole is a region in space where the pulling force of gravity is so strong that light is not able to escape. The strong gravity occurs because matter has been pressed into a tiny space. This compression can take place at the end of a star’s […]
Posted May 7, 2025
NASA+
NASA’s on-demand streaming service, NASA+, launched a FAST (Free Ad-Supported Television) channel on Prime Video Tuesday, giving viewers another way to watch the agency’s aeronautics, human spaceflight, science, and technology missions unfold on screen.
Posted May 6, 2025
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Science Research & Projects
Marshall Space Flight Center
Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided scientists with a unique opportunity to answer a longstanding question: How are X-rays generated in extreme environments like this?
Posted May 6, 2025
General
Artemis
Artemis 2
Exploration Ground Systems
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle
Orion Program
Space Launch System (SLS)
Engineers, technicians, mission planners, and the four astronauts set to fly around the Moon next year on Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission, are rapidly progressing toward launch. At the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, teams are working around the clock to move into integration and final testing of all SLS (Space Launch […]
Posted May 6, 2025
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
A soot-like cloud is revealed in a section of the sky in this May 1, 2025, image from NASA’S SPHEREx space observatory. On May 1, SPHEREx began regular science operations, which consist of taking about 3,600 images per day for the next two years to provide new insights about the origins of the universe, galaxies, […]
Posted May 6, 2025
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer)
Science & Research
Supermassive Black Holes
The Universe
X-ray Astronomy
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions.
Posted May 6, 2025
International Space Station (ISS)
Spot the International Space Station
1. Why is the International Space Station up there? The International Space Station is a convergence of science, technology, and human innovation that enables research not possible on Earth for the benefit of humanity. For more than 25 years, NASA has supported a continuous U.S.
Posted May 6, 2025
Biological & Physical Sciences
Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL)
GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on)
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
Future space missions could use quantum technologies to help us understand the physical laws that govern the universe, explore the composition of other planets and their moons, gain insights into unexplained cosmological phenomena, or monitor ice sheet thickness and the amount of water in underground aquafers on Earth.
Posted May 6, 2025
Johnson Space Center
People of Johnson
A first-generation college graduate, Nilufar Ramji was blazing trails long before arriving at NASA.
Posted May 6, 2025
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