Jan 18 2017, a year of extreme disasters, was also one of the hottest on record By Rashmi Shivni Scientists worry that the extreme weather events seen in 2017 will only get worse as the planet heats up. Continue reading
Jan 06 John Young, NASA's longest serving astronaut, dies at 87 By Michael D. Regan Young was a vanguard of NASA's space program in a career that spanned more than four decades during which he walked on the moon, commanded the first space shuttle flight and became the only astronaut to enter space as part… Continue reading
Nov 15 Watch 7:20 Can humans cope with long space travel? Astronaut Scott Kelly spent a year as a guinea pig By Miles O'Brien A year in space isn’t for the faint of heart. Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, author of a new book, “Endurance,” sits down with science correspondent Miles O’Brien to discuss the physical effects of a long space mission and what… Continue watching
Oct 28 NASA Twins Study spots thousands of genes toggling on and off in Scott Kelly By Rashmi Shivni When astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after a year floating about the International Space Station, he was noticeably different from his identical twin, Mark Kelly. Continue reading
Sep 26 OSIRIS-REx probe snaps Earth photo on way to space mining adventure By Nsikan Akpan NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe offers a new vantage of Earth on its way to the asteroid Bennu. Continue reading
Sep 14 Let Cassini live forever with these desktop and smartphone wallpapers By Julia Griffin After 20 years and 5 billion miles traveled, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will plummet Friday into Saturn, but you can keep the mission alive with these NewsHour-crafted backgrounds for your computers and smartphones. Continue reading
Sep 13 Watch 8:25 Why NASA's Cassini will take a fiery swan dive into Saturn By PBS News Hour Some 800 million miles away, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has orbited Saturn and captured images of its rings and icy moons. After nearly 5 billion miles traveled and 20 years of sending revealing data from the gas giant, Cassini is winding… Continue watching
Sep 13 Analysis: Why NASA's Cassini probe had to be destroyed By Fedor Kossakovski The death of NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a matter of life or… well…life. Continue reading
Jul 26 Billions of rogue planets wander the universe without a home By Lee Billings, Scientific American New results suggest free-floating giant planets are less common than previously believed, but hint at vast numbers of smaller castaway worlds… Continue reading
Jul 12 Here are Juno's first closeup photos of the Great Red Spot By Nsikan Akpan Less than 48 hours ago, NASA's Juno spacecraft got its first up-close-and-personal view with Jupiter's Great Red Spot, and today, the space agency has released photos from the flyby. Continue reading