Infrared images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, were combined in this image…
NEEMO 15 Commander Shannon Walker (NASA) and fellow aquanaut David Saint-Jacques (Canadian Space Agency) use a small telescoping boom as…
Exploded view of the first successful U.S. satellite, Explorer I, showing the instruments inside. Explorer I was launched January 31,…
An all-red aurora captured in Independence, Mo., on October 24, 2011. The coronal mass ejection (CME) that caused aurora to…
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…
