NASA Scraps X-Ray Space Telescope Mission Over Rising Costs
NASA is canceling all work on a new space telescope designed to seek out black holes and other cosmic mysteries through X-ray light due to soaring development costs, the space agency announced June 7.[Full Story]
NEXT: Space Shuttle Enterprise Lands at New York City's Intrepid Museum
Space Shuttle Enterprise Lands at New York City's Intrepid Museum
Space shuttle Enterprise, NASA's 1970's prototype for its now-retired spacecraft fleet, arrived at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City on June 6 after a morning sea trek by barge from a port in Jersey City, NJ. [Full Story]
NEXT: Giant Black Hole Likely Booted from Home Galaxy
Giant Black Hole Likely Booted from Home Galaxy
A supermassive black hole is apparently being ejected from its host galaxy at a fantastic speed, suggesting that such light-gobbling monsters may roam freely throughout the universe, a new study reports. [Full Story]
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