An interview of Dr. Paul Hertz, a senior leader in the Science Mission Directorate.

“I was going to have balance, and I wasn’t going to be a world‐famous scientist.”

As we sail the sands of time & space, science gives context & meaning to measures great & small, like stars. There are as many stars in the universe as grains of sand on Earth. Plan your year of discovery & usher in this new era of NASA Science with us.

See Jupiter and Venus appear nearer each night, as they head for a close conjunction at the start of March. Use bright stars Capella and Elnath to identify the constellation Auriga, and then find your way to two distant star clusters using Sirius as a guidepost.

After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, September 26 at 7:14 p.m. EDT. the agency’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space.

Planning for NASA’s Earth Information Center is underway, which will allow people to see how our planet is changing.