Jan 21 President calls climate change the ‘greatest threat to future generations’ in State of the Union By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Calling climate change the "greatest threat to future generations" in his State of the Union speech Tuesday, President Obama called out climate change deniers. Continue reading
Jan 16 Watch 6:06 Only a little bit hotter, but 2014’s record temperatures continue long-term trend By PBS News Hour 2014 was the hottest year in recorded history, even despite below-average temperatures in the Eastern U.S. Judy Woodruff speaks with Gavin Schmidt of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies about the human impact on global warming. Continue watching
Jan 16 Missing Mars probe Beagle 2 found after 11 years By Joshua Barajas Missing since 2003, British scientists said Friday new high-resolution images revealed that their Mars probe, Beagle 2, had landed safely on the surface of the Red Planet, but failed to fully deploy. Continue reading
Jan 14 Politics delayed Al Gore’s favorite satellite for 10 years, but in two weeks, it’ll fly By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy The Triana satellite was the brainchild of Al Gore and promised to revolutionize climate science and inspire generations. But after political controversy and poor timing, the satellite spent more than a decade in storage. Now scientists have dusted it off… Continue reading
Jan 06 Hubble’s new high-definition pic shows Pillars of Creation fading away and stars being born By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy In 1995, the Hubble Telescope snapped a stunning photo in the Eagle Nebula, 6,500 light years from Earth. The photo revealed three gigantic columns of cold gas, illuminated by the ultraviolet light from nearby young stars. The Pillars of Creation… Continue reading
Jan 01 8 things you didn’t know about 2015 By Ruth Tam From returning particle accelerators to apocalyptic comic book heroes, 2015 is bringing its A-game. Continue reading
Dec 19 Kepler keeps going, finds new ‘super-Earth’ By Joshua Barajas NASA’s Kepler space telescope, once thought “beyond repair,” has found a planet two and a half times the size of Earth outside the Milky Way, the space agency announced Thursday. Continue reading
Dec 10 Rosetta spacecraft finds water on Earth didn’t come from comets By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Where did Earth's water come from? For years, scientists believed comets could have delivered it to Earth. But the Rosetta spacecraft revealed today that is not the case. Continue reading
Dec 08 NASA’s New Horizons probe wakes up in time to photograph Pluto in 2015 By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy On Saturday night at 9:30 p.m. ET, an alarm clock went off for NASA’s New Horizon probe, 2.9 billion miles away from Earth. At 9:52 p.m., the piano-size spacecraft sent a message back to Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory… Continue reading
Dec 05 NASA’s Orion splashes down in the Pacific after flawless test flight By Jenny Marder and Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Watch the Orion spacecraft launch live here on the PBS NewsHour. Continue reading