Astronomer Gerard Kuiper is best known for his prediction of the Kuiper Belt of icy outer Solar System bodies, but in 1965, he used a high-flying NASA airplane to study Venus in infrared light, ...

Data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used to create a water distribution map of the ...

SOFIA Opens Its Door In this video taken from NASAs F/A-18 chase plane, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), fully opens its telescopes door on a flight near Edwards ...

Professor of physics and astronomy for 12 years at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Employed by the SETI Institute as director of education and public outreach for NASA's ...

The ring-shaped clouds around the nebula RCW 120 were detected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in this composite image. The Black Eye Galaxy is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million ...

Dr. Sofia Z. Sheikh is primarily a technosignature researcher, although she works on pulsars and radio frequency interference. She grew up in South Carolina, did her undergraduate work in physics and ...

The US-German Sofia (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) observatory is based around a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft. While flying at altitudes of about 12km (41,000ft), a large ...

Director of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Science and Mission Operations Dr. William Reach serves as Director of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) ...

The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) enables researchers to study celestial phenomena above the interference of most of Earth’s atmosphere. To facilitate that research, a ...