Sep 18 Catch the supermoon lunar eclipse? Here's what you saw By Vivian Hoang If you happened to notice the supermoon looking especially large as it was rising, you may have fallen victim to a “well-known, poorly studied optical illusion,” said NASA’s Noah Petro. Here’s the scientific explanation of what you were seeing, plus… Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch 9:25 Companies dig the deepest depths to mine valuable metals from the ocean floor By Willem Marx, Ed Kiernan Mankind has mined the earth’s surface for thousands of years. Now there’s a furious race to find even more metal that will enable the world’s energy transition away from fossil fuels. In Papua New Guinea, one company is digging what… Continue watching
Sep 17 5th historic flood in 25 years deluges North Carolina's coast By Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press The storm didn't get a name, but it dropped historic amounts of rain on an area that has suffered floods of a lifetime at least four other times in the past 25 years. Continue reading
Sep 15 SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew returns to Earth after completing first private spacewalk By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press A tech entrepreneur, two SpaceX engineers and a former Air Force Thunderbird pilot returned to Earth on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has traveled since NASA’s moonwalkers. Continue reading
Sep 12 First private spacewalk pulled off high above Earth By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press It was a high-risk endeavor reserved for professional astronauts — until now. Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman teamed up with SpaceX to test the company’s brand new spacesuits on his chartered flight. Continue reading
Sep 11 Strengthened by warm oceans, Francine hits Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane By Michael Phillis, Associated Press Warm water in the Gulf of Mexico helped quickly strengthen Hurricane Francine, which made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 2 storm Wednesday evening. Continue reading
Sep 11 Soyuz takes off from Kazakhstan, carrying 2 Russians and 1 American to space station By Associated Press The blast-off took place without obvious problems and the Soyuz entered orbit eight minutes after liftoff, a relief for Russian space authorities after an automated safety system halted a launch in March because of a voltage drop in the power… Continue reading
Sep 10 Watch 4:43 Critical report warns NASA is underfunded and its future is at risk By Geoff Bennett, Kate Tobin, Jackson Hudgins A four-person crew of civilians launched Tuesday morning on a private Space-X rocket for a five-day mission to include the first commercial spacewalk in history. NASA has big plans to send people to the Moon and Mars, but a sweeping… Continue watching
Sep 10 Live Map: Track the path of Hurricane Francine The system knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of utility customers, sent storm surge rushing into coastal communities and raised flooding fears in New Orleans and beyond. Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch 4:37 How Wisconsin is trying to save its freshwater mussels from drought and rising heat By Nathan Denzin, Wisconsin Public Television Wisconsin is coming back from its worst drought in decades. Along with unusually high temperatures, it’s affected wildlife in and around the state’s rivers. While spring rains ended the drought, recovery in some places has been slow. PBS Wisconsin’s Nathan… Continue watching