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NASA Invites Media to International Observe the Moon Night

Reported by NASA

NASA will host an International Observe the Moon Night celebration from 5:30 to 8 p.m. CST on Saturday, Sept. 19, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, the official visitor center for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Internati...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:55 +0000

From 10 to 22 years: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Mission Has Just Been Extended.

Reported by Universe Today

More good news for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The telescope's first mid-course correction was extremely efficient, using only 10% of the fuel allotted for it. This efficiency, coupled with other factors, means the powerful space telescope wi...
  • By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
  • On: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:22 +0000

If Black Holes Have Hair, We Will See It in the Ringdown of Their Mergers

Reported by Universe Today

Researchers have found that if black holes have certain features, known as "hair," then we could prove it by observing the gravitational ringdown of merging black holes. Future studies could test the no-hair theorem of general relativity....
  • By: Brian Koberlein (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/brian)
  • On: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:34 +0000

ALMA is Watching a Massive Binary Star System Form

Reported by Universe Today

Astronomers used 8 years of observations to create a 3D image of a very young, very massive binary star as it forms. The image shows that the disks in the system are all misaligned. Those misalignments, together with the orbit, are clues to the system's ch...
  • By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
  • On: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:16 +0000

Celebrate International Observe the Moon Night with NASA

Reported by NASA

In April, the world watched as four humans circled the Moon for the first time in over 50 years with NASA’s Artemis II mission. On Saturday, Sept. 19, the public is invited to look up again with NASA events across the country, including the Internati...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:15 +0000

Artemis III Crew Visits NASA Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building

Reported by NASA

NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik (left) and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano view progress on the solid rocket booster integration in High Bay 3 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesd...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:14 +0000