Mar 04 NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are just a few weeks away from returning to Earth By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press During a news conference Tuesday, Wilmore said that while politics is part of life, it did not play into his and Williams' return, moved up a couple weeks thanks to a change in SpaceX capsules. Continue reading
Mar 03 Watch 4:52 Blue Ghost lunar landing highlights NASA’s partnership with the private sector By Geoff Bennett, Karina Cuevas NASA’s partnership with the private sector took a key step forward with a successful moon landing. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the company, Firefly Aerospace, stuck the landing safely early Sunday, making it the first commercial spacecraft to… Continue watching
Mar 02 Private lunar lander successfully touches down on the moon with a special delivery for NASA By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth's celestial neighbor ahead of astronaut missions. Continue reading
Feb 25 Watch 9:55 Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore on their longer than expected stay in space By Amna Nawaz, Azhar Merchant For NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the long wait to return to Earth is almost over. They went to the International Space Station last June in a Boeing Starliner spacecraft. They were supposed to return a week later,… Continue watching
Feb 25 Scientists (mostly) rule out this newly discovered asteroid hitting Earth in the next decade By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press There’s still a 1.7 percent chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon on Dec. 22, 2032, according to NASA. Continue reading
Feb 08 Watch 2:45 How NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission may help us understand the origins of life on Earth By Ali Rogin, Harry Zahn The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ancient asteroid back to Earth has revealed that the building blocks of life may have been scattered… Continue watching
Feb 01 The Bennu asteroid reveals clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded By Timothy J McCoy, Sara Russell, The Conversation In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth. Continue reading
Jan 30 Two stuck NASA astronauts take their first spacewalk together after 8 months aboard the International Space Station By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press NASA's two stuck astronauts are taking their first spacewalk together, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in. Continue reading
Jan 16 Suni Williams, astronaut stuck in space, performs spacewalk for ISS repair work By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press One of NASA's two stuck astronauts is getting a change of scenery. Suni Williams stepped out on a spacewalk Thursday, her first since arriving at the International Space Station seven months ago. Continue reading
Jan 10 Watch 4:58 Warming climate created ‘perfect storm’ for catastrophic fires, NASA researcher says By Geoff Bennett, Jackson Hudgins Prolonged drought and powerful Santa Ana winds set up extreme conditions that have fueled the devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area. Those conditions were compounded by climate change. According to NOAA and NASA, the ten warmest years on record… Continue watching