Celebrating in 2016 the "Festival of Lights" (December 24 - 31, 2016) with the story of Hanukkah and what it represents. For eight consecutive days, people light candles adding one more every day. The master candle, also known as the "Shames" is always used to light the other candles. The tradition ...

More than 80% of the ocean floor is still unexplored. An un-crewed robotic surface vessel that can deploy and recover autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) has been developed. The team behind the technology, GEBCO-NF, won this year’s Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE which looks for the best new technolog

International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy as seen from about 240 miles above the Earth's horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21. Today Burbank described seeing the comet two nights ago as "the most amazing thing I have ever seen in space," in an intervie...

On July 20, Blue Origin will fly its 16th New Shepard flight to space, and its first with astronauts on board. Broadcast starts at T-90 minutes to launch.

A view of the Auroras (the Northern/Southern Lights) as seen from the International Space Station during September 2011.

On November 16, 2022, at 1:47 a.m. EST, NASA's SLS rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center as the Artemis I mission began. Will go back to the moon and then will finally get a base on it soon!

In response to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, Composer William Goldstein wrote this piece to inspire and create positive energy that in a small way may help move the many forces at play in the Middle East to mutual respect and cooperation, a light unto the world. Inspired by Yehuda Avne...

In this video we go to South America! In the Atacama Desert, Chile, we find the most advanced technology for space observation. Here, the Royal Astronomical Community members watched for six months as a black hole simply absorbed a massive star. By the way, these are the same scientists who proved t...

Join NASA Psyche Mission Co-Investigator Dr. Tim McCoy as he takes us on a journey from his first geology class to his current role as Curator-in-Charge of the US National Meteorite Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and his role on the Psyche Mission Science Team. Alon

The new museum, which is the key part of a beautification plan that also includes landscaping and lighting, will give the more than 4.3 million annual visitors to the Statue of Liberty the opportunity to learn about and honor the Statue's history, influence and legacy in the world. It's schedule to ...