New space plane arrives in Florida, set to launch later this year
A new space plane called Tenacity, built by Sierra Space, has arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for its first cargo flight to the International Space Station later this year. The Dream Chaser space plane is designed to transport either cargo or astronauts to low-Earth orbit. Its design was based on […]
NASA telescope spots ‘cosmic fireworks’ and faint echos from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
Astronomers used NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) telescope to discover nine large X-ray flares coming from Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. These flares had previously gone unnoticed. Studying them provides insights into the environment near the black hole. The researchers also discovered X-ray “echoes” […]