Michelle Thaller

Michelle Thaller

Assistant Director for Science Communication, NASA

A woman sitting in a chair.

Michelle Thaller is an astronomer and Assistant Director for Science Communication at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

5mins
Here's the science of black holes, from supermassive monsters to ones the size of ping-pong balls.
3mins
We may not find Klingons, but what we do find will blow our terrestrial minds.
4mins
Around Halloween in 2015, astronomers discovered 'The Goblin'. Now, it's leading us to what some call Planet X.
2mins
The thing that Carl Sagan did better than anybody else was connecting to the science through emotion and stories, says NASA's Michelle Thaller.
3mins
The universe is a huge place, inconceivably vast. And it can make even the most brilliant minds feel very, very small.
6mins
We love citing the big names in science. Einstein. Curie. Sagan. Nye The Science Guy. But does that lower the bar for the rest of the workaday scientists out there?