Firefighting Efforts in Kincade and Getty Fires in California Slowing Growth

Firefighters for both the Kincade and Getty fires in California have made great strides overnight trying…

WFIRST Will Add Pieces to the Dark Matter Puzzle

WFIRST’s ability to survey wide swaths of the universe will help us figure out what dark…

NASA Microgap-Cooling Technology Immune to Gravity Effects and Ready for Spaceflight

A groundbreaking technology that would allow NASA to effectively cool tightly packed instrument electronics and other…

Southern California's Getty Fire Continues to Burn

NASA’s Terra satellite using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard captured this image of…

Jennifer Wiseman Makes Sure Hubble Brings the Night Sky to Us

Jennifer Wiseman grew up loving the night sky and now she’s in charge of the one…

California's Devastating Kincaid Fire Continues to Spread

Californias devastating Kincaid Fire located in Sonoma County has grown to over 66,000 acres. …

Menacing-Looking 'Face' Formed By Titanic Smashup Between Two Galaxies

This Hubble snapshot reveals what looks like an uncanny pair of glowing eyes glaring menacingly in…

Sonoma County Kincaid Fire Races Through 20,000 Acres in Two Days

NASA’s Terra satellite captured a image of the Kincaid wildfire located in Northern California’s Somona County…

Stars Pollute, but Galaxies Recycle

The FORTIS sounding rocket will launch from the White Sands Missile to observe stars and supernovae…

Hubble Sees a Familiar Sight

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 4653, a galaxy just over 80…