Feb 17 Watch 6:43 NASA sets ambitious goals for latest mission to Mars By Miles O'Brien If all goes according to plan, the United States will land its most advanced rover ever on Mars on Thursday, nearly 300-million miles from where it lifted off last year. It is a daunting task, one that will set up… Continue watching
Feb 17 WATCH: NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas The mission, one of the space agency’s most ambitious yet, will seek to answer whether there is evidence that microbial life once existed on Mars. Continue reading
Feb 07 Next stop Mars: 3 spacecraft arriving in quick succession By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press After hurtling hundreds of millions of miles through space since last summer, three robotic explorers are ready to hit the brakes at Mars. The stakes — and anxiety — are sky high. Continue reading
Feb 01 Astronauts complete 4 years of power upgrades for International Space Station By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Over the weekend, flight controllers in Houston used the station's big robot arm to replace the last batch of old batteries with a new, more powerful one. Continue reading
Jan 19 Halted rocket test could stall NASA moon shot, redo possible By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The space agency had aimed to launch its new rocket and an empty Orion capsule by the end of the year, with the capsule flying past the moon and back. Continue reading
Jan 14 Mars digger bites the dust after 2 years on red planet By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Scientists in Germany spent two years trying to get their heat probe deep into the Martian crust. But the device on NASA's InSight lander couldn't gain enough friction in the clumpy red dirt to hammer down. Continue reading
Dec 21 Jupiter, Saturn will appear to merge in night sky for the first time in centuries By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the 17th century. Continue reading
Dec 09 WATCH: NASA announces 18 astronauts who will train for Artemis moon-landing By Associated Press NASA has named the 18 astronauts who will train for its Artemis moon-landing program. The first woman and next man on the moon will come from this select group. Continue reading
Nov 15 Watch 4:18 NASA and SpaceX set to make history, again By PBS NewsHour NASA and SpaceX are set to make history—again–when they launch their first operational commercial voyage to the international space station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Dave Mosher, Senior Space Correspondent for Business Insider, speaks with Hari… Continue watching
Nov 10 Report says NASA needs more time, money than planned to bring back Mars rocks By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press An independent panel says NASA is underestimating the amount of time and money it will take to bring Mars rocks back to Earth in the coming decade. Continue reading