Some of the people who work at NASA spend their time pouring over the gobs of images that come into the space agency from various satellites, astronauts on the ISS, and telescopes around the world.

This article explores why the phonetic alphabet is used in aviation, how it developed, and why it remains essential in modern digital communication systems. We’ll look at the alphabet’s origins, its ...

A few years ago while working on a story about wildfires, writer Adam Voiland of NASA Earth Observatory spotted a satellite image of a smoke plume over Canada in the shape of the letter ‘V.’ The image ...

Have you ever stopped to think about how important alphabets are? Without them, we wouldn't be able to write stories, send messages, read books or even play fun word games. The English alphabet has 26 ...