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
Dec 05 Can humans become a multi-planet species? By Miles O'Brien NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay travels the most remote parts of Earth to understand how life might survive on other planets. But he's also investigating another potential life form in space: humans. Can humans become a multi-planet species, he asks. Can… Continue reading
Dec 04 Watch 4:40 News Wrap: House votes to block Obama's immigration order By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, House Republicans pushed through a bill to declare President Obama’s executive actions on immigration “null and void.” The House also passed a defense spending bill authorizing $585 billion in funding and expanding military operations in… Continue watching
Dec 03 Watch Before NASA pioneers to Mars, Orion spacecraft faces tests By PBS News Hour NASA envisions a human presence on Mars in 20 years. But how will we get there? The Orion spacecraft, an unmanned capsule, will launch on its maiden voyage as an important test for future missions. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports… Continue watching
Dec 03 Photos: NASA prepares Orion to send humans to Mars By Travis Daub and Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy It will take a big rocket to get to Mars, and a big space capsule to protect humans during the months-long journey. It also takes decades of testing and development to plan a mission that will take humans… Continue reading
Nov 29 Invisible shield in space protects Earth from 'killer electrons' By Carey Reed A team led by professors and scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder discovered an invisible shield in space that blocks Earth from so-called "killer electrons."… Continue reading