NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO), a pioneering infrared telescope platform, is meeting its end as it is dismantled at ...

According to a news release from the air and space government agency this week, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy — also known as SOFIA — aircraft found the water in what ...

Scientists, using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral structure is primarily shaped by two arms extending from a central bar of stars.

where high‐altitude cirrus clouds and the associated moisture have historically caused significant losses in the amount and quality of the astronomical data collected by NASA's Kuiper Airborne ...

No one knew whether that hydration was the result of water or hydroxyl until 2020, when NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) mission confirmed the presence of water ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole. Our Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with ...

with participation in research flights onboard NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). The program culminates in classroom delivery of a SOFIA science-oriented curriculum ...

The data used to detect water on the asteroid’s surface came from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). NASA’s SOFIA telescope ended operations in 2022.

Employed by the SETI Institute as director of education and public outreach for NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) at NASA-Ames from 2003 to 2016. Has taught courses on ...