This artist's concept illustrates a young, red dwarf star surrounded by three planets. Such stars are dimmer and smaller than…
USRA's SOFIA education and public outreach director Dana Backman explains the difference between visible and infrared light.
San Jose high school science teacher Marita Beard discusses science education aboard the SOFIA.
Visitors deplane from the SOFIA flying observatory during its weekend visit to NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.,…
Using a model of its high-tech German-built telescope, SOFIA science mission operations director Erick Young of USRA outlines the capabilities…
On Oct. 22, 1968, the Apollo 7 crew is welcomed aboard the USS Essex, the mission's prime recovery ship. This…
A comparison graphic showing the Kepler-16 system with the scale of the inner planets of our own solar system.
Engineers conducted the first test as part of Phase 1 of the Orion MPCV boilerplate test article at NASA's Langley…
This interacting pair of galaxies is included in Arp's catalog of peculiar galaxies as number 148. Arp 148 is the…
All six Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne space shuttle main engines from Endeavour's STS-134 and Atlantis' STS-135 missions sit in test cells…
