NASA’s Hubble Telescope Spots Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Leaving Behind Trail of Newborn Stars

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Spots Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Leaving Behind Trail of Newborn Stars

A supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a 2,00,000-light-year-long condensed trail of newborn stars, twice the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy, in its wake, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), US. Captured accidentally by NASA‘s Hubble Space Telescope, the…

NASA Rolls Out SLS Rocket to Launch Pad in Florida 10 Days Before Artemis I Launch

NASA Rolls Out SLS Rocket to Launch Pad in Florida 10 Days Before Artemis I Launch

NASA rolled out its largest-ever rocket, Space Launch System (SLS), to a launch pad in Florida on Friday and will try again 10 days from now to blast off on a much-delayed uncrewed mission Artemis I to the Moon. After two launch attempts were scrubbed this summer because of technical problems,…

ISRO to Launch Chandrayaan-3, Its Third Mission to Moon, in June 2023

ISRO to Launch Chandrayaan-3, Its Third Mission to Moon, in June 2023

ISRO plans to launch Chandrayaan-3, its third mission to the moon, in June next year with a more robust lunar rover onboard which is crucial for future inter-planetary explorations. The space agency has also lined up the first test flight of the ‘abort mission’ for Gaganyaan, the country’s first human…

SpaceX to Fly First Space Tourist, Entrepreneur Dennis Tito, Around the Moon on Starship

SpaceX to Fly First Space Tourist, Entrepreneur Dennis Tito, Around the Moon on Starship

SpaceX plans to announce two new space tourists slated to fly on the Starship rocket: Dennis Tito, the world’s first-ever space tourist in 2001, and his wife, Akiko.  The couple paid an undisclosed amount to fly around the moon on Starship once the vehicle is complete. They will travel with 10 other…

NASA to Make Second Attempt to Launch Artemis I Moon Mission This Saturday

NASA to Make Second Attempt to Launch Artemis I Moon Mission This Saturday

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is set to make its second attempt to launch its powerful new Moon rocket this Saturday. The uncrewed mission, which is dubbed Artemis 1, will bring the United States closer to returning astronauts to the Moon after five decades. The blast off was earlier…

NASA’s Sofia Telescope Discovers More Water on Lunar Surface at Moretus Crater Region

NASA’s Sofia Telescope Discovers More Water on Lunar Surface at Moretus Crater Region

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) telescope has discovered more water on the Moon’s surface. The fresh findings of water have been made in the Southern Hemisphere of the Moon. The research was led by Casey Honniball, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The team have…