Nov 26 Watch 5:38 NASA hopes InSight will illuminate Mars' unknown core By Miles O'Brien NASA has successfully landed its spacecraft InSight on Mars, after a long and challenging voyage. Scientists hope InSight will uncover details of what’s under the surface of Mars, including whether the planet’s core is liquid or solid. Science correspondent Miles… Continue watching
Nov 26 WATCH: NASA's InSight lands on Mars after 6-month journey through space By Julia Griffin The first NASA lander to explore the interior of another planet successfully landed on Mars Monday. Continue reading
Aug 15 These tiny worms can survive forces 400,000 times stronger than Earth's gravity By Katherine Kornei, Scientific American New findings give some weight to the idea that life was blasted here from another planet. Continue reading
Jul 25 Watch 6:03 Life on Mars? Watery new discovery raises tantalizing possibilities By Miles O'Brien Scientists have finally found for the first time a large watery reservoir beneath the southern ice cap of Mars. Radar suggests it is more than 12 miles wide and similar in some ways to lakes found beneath the Greenland and… Continue watching
Jul 25 Mars has a giant hidden lake. Could there be life in it? By Lee Billings, Scientific American Deep beneath the frigid surface of its southern ice cap, Mars holds a lake of liquid water nearly three times larger than the island of Manhattan. Continue reading
Jun 13 NASA Rover knocked out as giant dust storm engulfs Mars By Amel Ahmed, KQED Flight controllers tried late Tuesday night to contact Opportunity, but the rover did not respond. The storm has been growing since the end of May and now covers one-quarter of the planet. Continue reading
May 14 What Kilauea's eruption can reveal about volcanoes on other worlds—and possibly, alien life By Fedor Kossakovski The Kilauea volcano provides a natural laboratory on Earth to study volcanoes found on other planets and moons in our solar system. Continue reading
May 04 WATCH: NASA launches InSight, the first lander for peering deep into Mars By Rashmi Shivni InSight could become the first probe to dig deep into Mars' interior to explore how the Red Planet’s geology evolved over billions of years, including the planet’s so-called “marsquakes.”… Continue reading
Nov 15 Watch 7:20 Can humans cope with long space travel? Astronaut Scott Kelly spent a year as a guinea pig By Miles O'Brien A year in space isn’t for the faint of heart. Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, author of a new book, “Endurance,” sits down with science correspondent Miles O’Brien to discuss the physical effects of a long space mission and what… Continue watching
Jun 03 SpaceX aims for history with latest rocket launch By Kamala Kelkar With 40 mice, 400 fruit flies and 3 tons of supplies in a refurbished cargo capsule, a SpaceX rocket embarked on another historic mission to the International Space Station from Florida on Saturday. Continue reading