A supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust as seen in infrared light (top left), visible light (top right), and low- and high-energy X-rays (bottom left, right). Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

Now, though, NASA has actually watched a black hole eat a star. To get a good view of the event, NASA used multiple of its space telescopes to observe the black hole as it ate the star.

NuSTAR's observations were then matched up with data about the same feeding supermassive black hole from NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope. The new findings could help explain how the early ...

NASA's 606,000 square-foot headquarters remains in Washington, D.C., where it has been since the agency's conception.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation has selected NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, a retired United States Air Force colonel ...

The Perseverance rover has been gathering samples from Jezero Crater. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has planned two new strategies to bring crucial samples from Mars to ...

In December 2022, the NASA telescope revealed ‘impossible’ black holes that had never been seen before, which scientists called ‘little red dots’ (LRDs). Astronomers found that a large ...

no mechanical arm to wear out requiring servicing or replacement – it functions like a vacuum cleaner,” Dennis Harris, who manages LPV at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, said.

and that's not even the strangest part. Buried in archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, researchers discovered something else very unusual about NGC 5084 ...

The Space Race of the 1960s was a monumental period in history. The competition between the United States and the Soviet ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of ...