NGC 6278 and PGC 039620 are two galaxies from a sample of 1,600 that were searched for the presence of supermassive black holes. These images represent the results of a study that suggests that smaller galaxies do not contain supermassive… Read More »NASA’s Chandra Finds Small Galaxies May Buck the Black Hole Trend
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) The 2025 Boeing ecoDemonstrator Explorer, a United Airlines 737-8, sits outside a United hangar in Houston.Boeing / Paul Weatherman Picture this: You’re just about done with a transoceanic flight,… Read More »NASA Works with Boeing, Other Collaborators Toward More Efficient Global Flights
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 The performers mid-performance Image: Alex Lozupone. On Friday, November 21, flutist Robert Dick and double bassist Mark Dresser reunited for a performance at the Fridman Gallery in New York City. Dick and Dresser started playing… Read More »Robert Dick and Mark Dresser re-unite at the Fridman Gallery
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 Music Related articles Robert Dick and Mark Dresser re-unite at the Fridman Gallery Country music songwriter Brett James dies in North Carolina plane crash American rapper Lil Nas X pleads not guilty of alleged assault… Read More »Four countries back out of Eurovision 2026 amid ongoing boycott
Winter is upon us and it is time to bundle up, gather around the fireplace and read some comic books. Here are some seasonal picks from the Library of Congress collections to close out the end of the year. “Mickey… Read More »Winter Stories in Comic Books
The following is a guest post by Josh Primus, an intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. He is a graduate student studying Library and Information Science remotely from Denver, CO at the University of… Read More »The History and Legacy of the Colorado River Storage Project
Bryce Canyon National Park fire managers plan to conduct pile burning operations this winter and early spring as conditions allow. These pile burns are part of a 55-acre fuel reduction project to minimize wildfire risk and protect park infrastructure, in… Read More »Pile burns planned in Bryce Canyon National Park
The National Park Service today announced the early completion of the Tidal Basin seawall reconstruction, a major step in protecting some of the nation’s most recognizable memorials and landscapes. https://www.nps.gov/nama/learn/news/seawallcomplete.htm www.nps.gov · Public Domain
Yellowstone National Park’s winter season begins Monday, Dec. 15. https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/25018.htm www.nps.gov · Public Domain
Sherlock-Lung study researchers use large-scale multi-omics analysis to identify biomarker of aggressive lung tumors. www.nih.gov · Public Domain
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA engineer Hanbong Lee demonstrates capabilities to manage busy urban airspace traffic during a recent simulation at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.NASA/Brandon Torres-Navarrete NASA is helping… Read More »NASA Demonstrates Safer Skies for Future Urban Air Travel
NASA/Bill Ingalls The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Dec. 9, 2025, with Expedition 73 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky… Read More »NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Returns to Earth
Retirement Information for NASA Employees The NSSC provides general administrative, advisory, and transactional support for federal benefits programs to all NASA employees, calculates retirement estimates, and processes retirement packages. In consideration of retiring employees on administrative leave, resources typically available… Read More »Retirement
También hay versión en español de esta entrada A few months ago we shared how a group of university instructors from across Spain decided to join forces to exchange what we had been carrying on with Wikimedia in our classrooms.… Read More »Videos on Teaching Experiences with Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, and OSM
This post is by Jessica Fries-Gaither, a 2024-2025 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress. Analyzing one primary source is good, but using multiple sources can be even better. The Paleontology, Past and Present primary source set… Read More »Stacking Primary Sources to Dig Deeper into Fossilization
Pearl Harbor National Memorial will honor the continued service and commitment inspired by the “Greatest Generation” by offering a special boat program for service members of each respective military branch throughout the year. https://www.nps.gov/valr/learn/news/pearl-harbor-national-memorial-honors-u-s-national-guard-and-u-s-space-force-birthdays.htm www.nps.gov · Public Domain
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area will implement typical winter service levels. During annual low staff seasons, the park takes this action to ensure visitor safety. Information on sites that will remain open, receive no winter maintenance, or close until… Read More »NPS Announces Routine Reduced Winter Services, Plowing Priorities
A pilot signals to a crew member before takeoff from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Aug. 21, 2025. Accompanying him in the high-flying ER-2 aircraft is one of the most advanced imaging spectrometers in the solar… Read More »New NASA Sensor Goes Hunting for Critical Minerals
Nicolas Escurat A flash of lightning, and then—something else. High above a storm, a crimson figure blinks in and out of existence. If you see it, you are a lucky witness of a sprite, one of the least-understood electrical phenomena… Read More »Sprites Over Château de Beynac
X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Chicago/H. McCall Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of superheated, X-ray-emitting gas. The mass of this hot gas is… Read More »Painting Galaxy Clusters by Numbers (and Physics)