Mar 02 America's newest crew capsule rockets toward space station By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press America's newest capsule for astronauts rocketed Saturday toward the International Space Station on a high-stakes test flight by SpaceX. Continue reading
Mar 01 WATCH: SpaceX tests Dragon capsule for launching humans into space By Wendy Whitman Cobb, The Conversation The launch window opens on Saturday at 2:49 a.m. EST, and is the first time the privately owned capsule, which is designed to carry humans into space, is testing its ability. Continue reading
Feb 28 If this space study is right, humans have never left Earth's atmosphere By Vicky Stein A new study redefines the boundaries of our planet. Continue reading
Feb 13 After a 15-year odyssey, NASA loses its trailblazing Opportunity By Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American Mired in dust on the afternoon of June 10, 2018, NASA’s Opportunity rover received a final command from Earth. The reply was grim. Continue reading
Feb 13 Watch 6:21 News Wrap: House votes to limit U.S. involvement in Yemen In our news wrap Wednesday, the House rebuked President Trump by voting to limit U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen. The measure would end U.S. military assistance for a Saudi-led bombing campaign against Iranian-backed rebels. Plus, as President Trump… Continue watching
Jan 01 Watch 7:14 Why the latest New Horizons flyby represents a space exploration milestone On this New Year’s Day, NASA has a special reason to celebrate: Its spacecraft New Horizons has made a successful flyby of Ultima Thule, an object orbiting in space about four billion miles from Earth. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien joins… Continue watching
Dec 31 WATCH: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to fly past tiny, icy world beyond Pluto By Associated Press NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to fly by the object Ultima Thule at 12:33 a.m. Tuesday. Watch the event here. Continue reading
Dec 23 With first-ever landing on moon's farside, China enters 'Luna Incognita' By Leonard David, Scientific American The Chang’e-4 mission could have major effects on Earthbound science and politics. Continue reading
Dec 03 WATCH: NASA's Osiris-Rex reaches Bennu, in mission to bring home asteroid dust By Nsikan Akpan Part pioneer and part dirt collector, Osiris-Rex will spend the next year or so looking for a spot to capture pieces of the asteroid before heading back to Earth. Continue reading
Nov 28 Watch 6:49 How this spacecraft will sample an asteroid's rocks, without even landing on it By Miles O'Brien More than two years after it launched, a spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx is approaching its target, an asteroid named Bennu. Scientists hope that rock samples from Bennu will provide insight into the likelihood of life on other planets, as well as… Continue watching