When one black hole isn’t enough! Most galaxies just have one. But this one has three. NASA explains: The likely reason is that galaxy J1502+1115 is the product of the […]

Why would a cloud appear to be different colors? NASA explains: A relatively rare phenomenon known as iridescent clouds can show unusual colors vividly or a whole spectrum of colors […]

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats

"To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him." - Honore de Balzac

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or to be the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton

"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." - Rita Mae Brown

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead

New York City has never been safer. Drug dealers and muggers no longer rule Times Square, and droves of residents in the Bronx and Brooklyn aren’t setting their apartments on […]

Neil deGrasse Tyson snapped this photograph of the Mahattanhenge, an event that occurs twice a year when the city’s grid takes on the special effects of Stonehenge. This Saturday, if […]

"Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact." - H.G. Wells

The “Lean In” movement that Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg founded with her book of the same name continued a conversation psychologist Matina Horner started 46 years ago. In Horner’s famous study, […]

Near the constellation Coma Berenices, some 63 million light-years away, is NGC 4651, a spiral galaxy about the size of our Milky Way. Extending 100 thousand light-years past its galactic […]

"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured." - Dean Acheson

"Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house." - Jules Henri Poincare

"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose." - John F. Kennedy

"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more." - Jonas Salk

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." - Anna Freud

Laura Rittenhouse is a 21st century Orwell, who scours shareholder letters for "cliches, weasel words, jargon, hyperbole, nonsensical statements, and overused words."]

It can be difficult to hear about the areas where we need to improve. Even if someone is skilled at giving feedback, listening to what we could be doing better […]

Think a star explosion is always a pyrotechnic show far superior than all the 4th of July fireworks put together? Some stars actually explode in slow motion. NASA captured one […]