This illustration highlights the moon’s Clavius crater and water trapped in the lunar soil there, along with an image of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) that found ...
Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. NASA's ...
NASA’s flying observatory SOFIA is scheduled to make one last flight to its final resting place. The jumbo jet will be spending its retirement years at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona, ...
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Leaner than a space telescope, better than a publicity stunt, SOFIA is NASA's long-haul flying telescope. Check it out! Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...
EDWARDS, Calif. – NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, known as SOFIA, began a series of flight tests Thursday of the highly modified Boeing 747SP aircraft. The tests are the first ...
Scientists and technicians are preparing NASA’s long-awaited Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy – or SOFIA –for its first science mission, when the high-tech flying telescope will gather ...