On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse moved across North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. A total solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, completely blocking the face of the Sun. The sky will darken as if it were dawn or dusk. We got these...

Millions of years ago incredible forces ripped apart the Earth’s crust creating our seven continents – each with its own distinct climate, its own distinct terrain and its own unique animal life. From the colourful paradise of South America to the scorching heat of Africa, Seven Worlds: One Planet s

NASA announced that its Curiosity rover had discovered organic material—carbon containing molecules that are essential building blocks for life—within Gale Crater, a 3.5 billion-year-old bedrock that scientists believed might have held a lake. The Curiosity rover also confirmed signs of methane—the

SUCCESS! With this mission, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket deliverED 11 satellites to low-Earth orbit for ORBCOMM, a leading global provider of Machine-to-Machine communication and Internet of Things solutions. The ORBCOMM launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The 11 satellites were deplo

Alaska Airlines Flight 870, alter its flight path on Tuesday, March 8, 2016 so that passengers could get a glimpse of a rare solar eclipse from the plane’s windows.Wrote the airline: “Tuesday’s rendezvous over the Pacific Ocean is not luck, but a precisely planned equation. The calculations began a

Jupiter-Venus conjunction 2023: The two planets will pass within half a degree of each other in a spectacular planetary conjunction on 1-2 March 2023. The conjunction of Jupiter and Venus will be one of the best planetary events that can be seen with unaided eyes. Besides that, in March, the Moon wi...

The National Symphony Orchestra Pops and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Preforming Arts hosted a celebration for NASA's 60th Anniversary June 1, 2018.

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

American astrophysicist and cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote and narrated a YouTube piece for Minute Physics called A Brief History of Everything, with the scientist explaining and condensing the epic 16 billion year history of the universe into a succinct eight minute video. While the basic co

Landscape photographers can take a stroll outside and have all the available light they crave – unless of course they are using light pouring in from a window. But for the most part, studio photography involves setting up elaborate lighting, stands, and modifiers. Light is a type of energy. It is a