Nobel Laureate John Mather describes how technological investment in astronomy and cosmology can be used to answer questions central to all of science.
Untouched Oceans Provide Context for Earth’s Uniqueness
Exploring oceans on other planets, such as the one underneath the ice crust of Europa, gets at one of science’s most profound questions: how unique is the planet we live on?
Enhancing Ocean Color Observation from Space: A Look Forward to NASA’s PACE and GEO-CAPE Missions
Future NASA satellites will extend the reach of global ocean color observation and research.
'First starlight' instrument ready
Originally Published by BBC News– Engineers complete the second of Europe’s two instruments for Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, which is due for launch in 2018.