Oct 20 How you can observe the Orionid meteor shower this weekend By Daniel Brown, The Conversation The meteor shower happens when Earth passes through debris from Halley’s comet. Continue reading
Oct 13 WATCH: NASA launches mission to study metal-rich asteroid Psyche By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press SpaceX launched the Psyche spacecraft on Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft is named for the metal-rich asteroid it's chasing, which scientists believe is the battered remains of an early planet's iron core. Continue reading
Oct 11 Watch 3:11 News Wrap: Parts of western Afghanistan hit with second strong earthquake in a week In our news wrap Wednesday, a strong new earthquake rocked the same parts of western Afghanistan that are reeling from Saturday's deadly tremor, Hurricane Lidia largely dissipated after striking Mexico's Pacific coast overnight and there's more data that students in… Continue watching
Oct 11 WATCH: NASA scientists unveil first near-Earth asteroid sample returned to U.S. By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press NASA is showing off its first asteroid samples delivered last month by a spacecraft. Scientists and space agency leaders took part in Wednesday's big reveal at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Continue reading
Oct 09 These 6 new images from the Hubble telescope shed light on distant galaxies By Bella Isaacs-Thomas Here’s a look at the recent Hubble images NASA released in honor of “galaxy week.”… Continue reading
Sep 29 What mud cracks on Mars tell us about whether life could have formed on the planet By Bella Isaacs-Thomas Researchers believe the cracks experienced sustained wet-dry cycles, which may be key to creating conditions that could cultivate the building blocks of life. Continue reading
Sep 25 Watch 7:52 What scientists hope to learn from asteroid sample returned to Earth on NASA spacecraft By Miles O'Brien, Kate Tobin You may have heard about a NASA probe that successfully brought some samples from a deep-space asteroid back to Earth. It took four billion miles to get them, but researchers believe it will be worth it. You also may be… Continue watching
Sep 24 Watch 3:07 News Wrap: GOP hardliner blasts McCarthy’s plan to avoid government shutdown In our news wrap Sunday, House negotiations to avoid a government shutdown enter their final week, France is ending its military presence in Niger, talks continued in the auto workers and Hollywood strikes, NASA retrieved its first asteroid samples from… Continue watching
Sep 24 WATCH: NASA holds news conference after retrieval of capsule from OSIRIS-REx By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press In a flyby of Earth, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released the capsule containing NASA’s first asteroid samples from 63,000 miles out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid. Continue reading
Sep 22 WATCH: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returns an asteroid soil sample to Earth By Bella Isaacs-Thomas Experts say the rocks and dust the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft plucked from an asteroid named Bennu will fuel scientific research for generations. Continue reading