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Category: 2. Space
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Sophia Roberts: Showcasing the Cosmos
Growing up in Detroit with a camera in her hand, Sophia Roberts — now an award-winning astrophysics science video producer—never imagined that one day her path would wind through clean rooms, vacuum chambers, and even a beryllium mine. But…
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Mysterious ‘little red dot’ galaxies have a possible origin story
The early universe is speckled with little red dots, and now we may have an idea of how these peculiar galaxies originated: They were born with almost no spin.
Little red dots were totally unknown until their discovery by the James…
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The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) Welcomes Starcloud and Volta Space Technologies as New Associate Members
June 27, 2025 – Washington, D.C.—The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) is pleased to welcome Starcloud and Volta Space Technologies as new Associate Members. These forward-looking companies bring cutting-edge capabilities that will…
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New SLS booster design suffers anomaly during test
WASHINGTON — A new version of the solid rocket booster being developed for the Space Launch System experienced an anomaly during a test firing in Utah June 26.
Northrop Grumman performed the first demonstration test of the Booster…
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World’s largest camera just snapped the Universe in 3,200 megapixels
The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first “mega” images of the cosmos obtained thanks to the extraordinary features and wide-field view of its LSST camera — the largest in the world. The camera took nearly two…
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Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center
The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of 250 million years. Its source was the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre)….
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