Oct 16 Watch 5:29 Neil deGrasse Tyson explains NASA’s asteroid-shifting DART mission NASA's recent Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, known as DART, successfully altered the orbit of a planetary object for the first time ever. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and author of the new book "Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization," joins… Continue watching
Oct 11 WATCH: NASA says DART spacecraft successfully redirected asteroid By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. Continue reading
Oct 10 Underground microbes may have swarmed ancient Mars, scientists say By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Ancient Mars may have had an environment capable of harboring an underground world teeming with microscopic organisms. Continue reading
Oct 04 Photo shows asteroid’s 6,000 miles long debris trail after collision with NASA spacecraft By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris. Astronomers captured the scene millions of miles away with a telescope in Chile. Continue reading
Sep 26 NASA Dart spacecraft rams into an asteroid in defense test By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Scientists say the impact should have carved out a crater and hurled streams of rocks and dirt into space. Most importantly, though, scientists are hoping the collision altered the asteroid's orbit. Continue reading
Sep 26 Watch 11:38 NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid in attempt to knock it off course By Miles O'Brien, William Brangham, Courtney Norris NASA is trying an experiment to answer a question that’s straight out of science fiction. What could we do if a large object was hurtling through space on a collision course with Earth? Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien joined William Brangham… Continue watching
Sep 26 WATCH: NASA’s DART spacecraft crashes into an asteroid to test defense system By Svetla Ben-Itzhak, The Conversation Crashing the 1,340-pound DART probe into the small moonlet orbiting the asteroid Didymos should redirect its trajectory – and could be a model for how to save Earth in the future. Continue reading
Sep 24 NASA delays next Artemis 1 launch attempt due to potential hurricane By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press NASA is skipping next week’s launch attempt of its new moon rocket because of a tropical storm that’s expected to become a major hurricane. Continue reading
Sep 23 Watch 6:35 NASA engineer honored for work overseeing launch of James Webb Space Telescope By Judy Woodruff, Ian Couzens The Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, or Sammies, are given out each year to celebrate our nation's public servants. NASA's Greg Robinson received the flagship award of Federal Employee of the Year for his work managing the construction… Continue watching
Sep 17 Watch 5:35 What scientists are learning from the James Webb Space Telescope’s images NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launched last Christmas and released its first image in July, providing the deepest and sharpest view we've ever seen of the universe. Since then, it has captured faraway star nurseries, cosmic cliffs and galactic clusters. Continue watching