If they're someone else's words, they'll put them in quotation marks. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Not really

> Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth

It was described by someone else as spectacular - in this case NASA

> Artemis II crew take spectacular image of Earth

We the BBC certify that this image is officially spectacular

Not hugely important in this context. By more import, when the sentence is something like X 'commits warcrimes' against Y