Technology & Innovation
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Multi-messenger astronomy helps astronomers create a fuller view of our universe.
Researchers have been mapping our universe since the early 1900s.
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Air and Space Museum on the National Mall, it is good to remember how we got that prominent location. It was not inevitable.
435,165 pilots, including thousands of women and Black pilots, passed through the Civilian Pilot Training Program and War Training Service.
The Sun causes weather in space. But that doesn’t mean snowstorms, rain, or other types of weather that we are familiar with here on Earth.
Caroline Lucretia Herschel was England’s first professional woman astronomer. Together with her brother William, she mapped the milky way.
The reality of human life is that we create trash—and lots of it. But what happens to the things we send up into sky? Is there trash in space?
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin transformed our understanding of the universe. She discovered what stars are made of.