On the morning of September 6, 2010, a wildfire known as the Fourmile Canyon Fire broke out just west of Boulder, Colorado. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites captured these...

It’s hard to imagine what the surface of a dark, distant asteroid might look like, but NASA’s “Tour of Asteroid Bennu” brings us on a journey to see this landscape up close. The video, which was released in October...

Whole class unique competitive PE game using a large gym/exercise ball, with a different approach for students to practice their throwing and target skills.

Since the glaciers retreated around 15,000 years ago, rock fall has been the major force of change in Yosemite Valley. Geologists work to understand this force of nature in order to protect the millions of visitors who come here each year.

The NIST Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Standards Lab recently received the Governor's Award for High-Impact Research for advancing the forefront of biomedical imaging by developing a broad suite of calibration “phantoms” to enable...

Students from the Alexander Dawson School in Boulder, Colorado explain the workings of a "dark detector" coated with the one of the world's darkest materials, a forest of carbon nanotubes that reflect almost no light across the visible...

The public will have the opportunity to view and learn more about the April 15, 2014 total lunar eclipse on NASA Television, the agency's website and social media. The eclipse begins about 2 a.m. EDT and will last about three hours. The...

Phobia expert Dr. Donald Dossey claims as many as 21 million Americans suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th). So how did this superstition come about? The short answer is we don’t really know, but there some...

AN ADVENTURER has found the perfect travelling purr-tner - his house cat. Adventurer and filmmaker, JJ Yosh, resides in Boulder, Colorado with his black cat Simon. He adopted the feline two years ago, and they have been travelling...

The Spanish Flu was one of the deadliest pandemics the world has ever seen – so how was one sleepy Colorado town able to escape unscathed?

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa killed nine people and a heroic policeman when he went on a murderous rampage in a supermarket.

University of Colorado engineer Abby Watrous is on a mission in rural China, converting coal-burning homes and cook stoves into cleaner-burning models, using, among other things, the extremely abundant supply of pig poop. With funding...