Sep 10 Dwarf planet Ceres seen in mesmerizing new detail By Jenny Marder New images of dwarf planet Ceres show oddly shaped mountains, collapsed crater walls, long surface cracks and alternately rocky and smooth terrain, as if something flowed across a large swath of its surface. It also shows the bright spots in… Continue reading
Sep 02 How NASA measures the death of a glacier from space By Catherine Woods In 2017, a new NASA satellite called ICESat-2 will measure how fast ice is melting in order to estimate how soon coastal cities might suffer from sea level rise. Continue reading
Aug 13 Photos: It’s not too late to view the amazing Perseid light show By Ariel Min The annual Perseid meteor shower lit up the sky Wednesday night even brighter than previous years since 2007, with “no moonlight to upstage the power.”… Continue reading
Aug 10 Study shows chronic fatigue among air traffic controllers By Joan Lowy, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Air traffic controllers' work schedules often lead to chronic fatigue, making them less alert and endangering the safety of the national air traffic system, according to a study the government has kept secret for nearly four years. Continue reading
Aug 07 Why don’t we ever see the far side of the moon? By Catherine Woods NASA this week released photographs of the far side of the moon, providing a lunar perspective we rarely get to see. But why is the dark side of the moon, as it's known, so elusive to the Earthbound?… Continue reading
Aug 01 Once in a blue moon: See photos of Friday’s lunar rarity around the world By Andrew Mach See photos from around the world of Friday's blue moon, the second of two full moons appearing in the same calendar month. Continue reading
Jul 24 Meet three scientists behind the Pluto mission By Megan Crigger Shortly after the July 14 flyby of Pluto and its moons, we spoke with three members of the New Horizons mission team: Alice Bowman, the mission operations manager, and Cathy Olkin and Kimberly Ennico-Smith, deputy project scientists. Editor’s note: Women… Continue reading
Jul 23 NASA’s Kepler telescope finds the closest copy of Earth to date By Nsikan Akpan NASA Kepler's mission adds 500 new exoplanets to its library. Continue reading
Jul 15 Watch 6:15 Welcome to Pluto, where you’ll find mountains the size of the Rockies By PBS News Hour Today, NASA released the first ever close-up photographs of Pluto. The images showed icy mountains and a mysterious pale patch shaped like a heart. Judy Woodruff speaks to science correspondent Miles O’Brien about what we have learned about Pluto so… Continue watching
Jul 14 Watch 8:51 Pluto, underdog of the solar system, finally gets its day By PBS News Hour Soon, some of the mystery surrounding Pluto, the distant dwarf planet, will be lifted. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, speeding through space for almost a decade on a mission to capture a myriad of data, is believed to have finally made… Continue watching