On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

Galileo precedes today’s physicists by many generations, but his work underscores the interplay of intellect and observation ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

I recently saw a YouTube video by Hank Green discussing how important the Galilean moons are in our understanding of the solar system and the universe as a whole. The ...

National Inventor’s Day honors inventors of the past, the creators of the present, and encourages the architects of the ...

Evidence suggests ancient civilizations, including the Greeks, may have had early optical knowledge and devices like ...

Chodas added that the actual size of the asteroid, which astronomers are trying to determine with follow-up observations using multiple telescopes, is currently highly uncertain. “If the ...

For example, Keith’s own instrument-designs are today used on the European Space Agency ‘Galileo’ constellation and on Japanese Meteorological satellites to measure the hazardous high energy electron ...

Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope transformed our understanding ... The list of NASA's inventions is truly vast, but if we were to pick the most remarkable, these 7 would undoubtedly ...