NASA
Gravity Assist: Planetary Defense and Oumuamua with Kelly Fast
NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green sits down with Dr. Kelly Fast, a planetary astronomer to discuss planetary defense and Oumuamua.
Next Animation Studio
NASA's Hubble Telescope experiences mechanical failure
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has gone into safe mode after two of its four functioning gyroscopes stopped working.
Next Animation Studio
South Africa, Australia to share SKA super telescope
South Africa and Australia have been chosen as the sites for the square kilometer array (SKA) radio telescope. The SKA will consist of clusters of three kinds of antenna linked to a central supercomputer. Combined, the logarithmically...
Curated Video
Exploring Space with the Hubble Space Telescope
In this video, we learn about the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and how scientists use it to take pictures of space.
NASA
NASA | What Are Gamma Rays?
What we call "light" is actually just a tiny fraction of the broad range of radiation on the electromagnetic radiation spectrum. The entire span stretches from very-low-energy radio waves through microwaves, infrared light, visible...
NASA
NASA | Fermi discovers giant gamma-ray bubbles in the Milky Way
Using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a gigantic, mysterious structure in our galaxy. This never-before-seen feature looks like a pair of bubbles extending above and below our galaxy's center....
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: Know Thy Star, Know Thy Planet: NASA in Silicon Valley Podcast
A feature story from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on September 14, 2016.
NASA
OSIRIS-REx Tech - Surveying an Asteroid with X-rays
NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission launches in September 2016 and plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023. This video profiles a student-built instrument aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft called REXIS - the Regolith X-Ray...
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NASA Referees Test of Footballs vs. Webb Telescope
While two football teams will be put to the test at Super Bowl LI in Houston, engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are testing the most powerful space telescope ever built, the James Webb Space...
NASA
HIRMES: SOFIA's latest high-resolution Mid-infrared Spectrometer
A team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is developing a new, third-generation facility science instrument for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA. The High Resolution Mid-InfrarEd...
AllTime 10s
10 Things NASA Doesn't Want You To Know
When it comes to NASA, things are bound to get a little out of this world. Alltime10s brings you some weird claims and historical abnormalities about the world's most famous space program.
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NASA | CATS in Space Keep Eyes on Atmosphere
NASA Goddard is preparing to demonstrate for the fist time in space, a 3-wavelength, laser remote sensing instrument. The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System or CATS will measure clouds and aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere. This...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Leonard A. Cole - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Frank Edmondson
Dr. Leonard A. Cole is an expert on bioterrorism and on terror medicine. He is an adjunct professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (Emergency Medicine) and at Rutgers University-Newark (Political Science). At the medical school he...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Puffy Planets, Powerful Telescopes, with Knicole Colon
NASA astrophysicist Knicole Colon describes her work on the Kepler, Hubble, TESS and Webb missions, and takes us on a tour of some of her favorite planets.
NASA
NASA's Curious Universe: Webb Space Telescope: The Global Village
A scientist from Italy who studies baby stars. A Californian spacecraft refrigeration pioneer. A Dominican-American engineer who saw space as her refuge from a tough life at home. Meet three people who represent a small slice of the...
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Russia to build laser cannon to vaporize space debris
The Russian space agency is planning to get rid of space debris by shooting it with a laser cannon, reports RT.
Science360
How the Event Horizon Telescope took first ever image of a black hole
Brief oveview of the Event Horizon telescope with a simple explanation of how the EHT works and the black hole image it captured. Includes a soundbite with the National Science Foundation director and the Event Horizon Telescope director.
NASA
Gravity Assist: If They Call, Will We Listen? The Search for Technosignatures
Jason Wright, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, has been thinking about the different technosignatures we could pick up using the telescopes we already have, and the telescopes that we could develop in the future.
NASA
James Webb Space Telescope Laser-Focused Sight
About 1 million miles away from the nearest eye surgeon, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be able to perfect its own vision while in orbit. Though the Webb telescope will focus on stars and galaxies approximately 13.5 billion...
NASA
Einstein Ring Spotted by Hubble
This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a distant galaxy located in the constellation Fornax. It is the largest and one of the most complete Einstein rings ever discovered. This object’s unusual shape is the result of...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST Detector Scans the Universe in Hawaiian Telescope Camera SCUBA-2
SCUBA-2, the world's largest submillimeter camera—based on superconducting technology designed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—is now ready to scan the universe, including faint and faraway parts never seen...
NASA
NASA | Looking for the Shadows of New Worlds
Astronomers have used many different methods to discover planets beyond the solar system, but the most successful by far is transit photometry, which measures changes in a star's brightness caused by a mini-eclipse. When a planet crosses...
NASA
Kepler Stares at Neptune
During its K2 campaign, NASA's Kepler spacecraft observed the eighth planet in our solar system, Neptune. Kepler detected small changes in Neptune's brightness caused by the planet's daily rotation, the movement of clouds, and even...
NASA
Happy Lunar New Year From Hubble
Hubble welcomes the Year of the Rat with a view of its own favorite rodents, NGC 4676A and B, and highlights the planetary origins of the Chinese zodiac’s 12-year timetable. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Bradley Hague (GSFC...