Feb 03 Watch My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us New Planets — 1,200 of Them Perhaps you learned a mnemonic device such as the one above to help remember the planets -- Mercury, Venus, Earth, etc. -- and their order away from the sun. Turns out, we're going to need a longer mnemonic after the… Continue watching
May 26 Atlantis Caps Final Mission with Permanent Resting Place Still TBD By Larisa Epatko The space shuttle Atlantis glided to a landing with six astronauts aboard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, capping the orbiter's 25-year career in space. Continue reading
May 12 Watch Astronauts Criticize NASA Moon Program Cuts Before Congress Astronaut Neil Armstrong and made a rare public appearance to testify before Congress about the future space exploration. Kwame Holman reports on the divisions about the future of space exploration and plans to scrap NASA's Constellation program. Continue watching
Feb 02 Watch Budget Cuts Launch Debate on NASA’s Future Rather than send a man back to the moon, President Obama's proposed budget calls for a far less expensive plan of encouraging private companies to build spacecrafts for NASA to rent. But veterans of the space agency's golden years fear… Continue watching
Nov 16 Watch Other News: Iran on Track for New Enrichment Plant In other news, the U.N. nuclear agency reported that Iran plans to open a uranium enrichment plant by 2011, and the head of French forces in Afghanistan narrowly escaped a rocket attack in Kabul. Continue watching
Nov 13 Watch News Wrap: Bombers Strike in Afghanistan, Pakistan In other news, at least 24 people died in a suicide bombing near a U.S. military base outside of Kabul, and in Pakistan, a truck bomber killed at least 10 people outside the northwestern headquarters of the Pakistani intelligence services. Continue watching
Nov 10 Watch News Wrap: White House Disputes Reports of Afghan Troop Surge In other news, White House officials insisted President Obama has not decided how many more troops to send to Afghanistan, and a suicide car bombing in Pakistan killed at least 24 people. Continue watching
Oct 13 Watch ScienceNow Looks at Rescuing the Hubble The NewsHour airs an excerpt from a NOVA ScienceNow report on efforts to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Continue watching
Oct 09 Watch Small Crash on Moon Could Have Big Scientific Impact Scientists hope crashing a probe into the moon will shed light on whether there is much water there. Continue watching
Oct 09 Moon Explosion Could Yield Water for Humans A NASA spacecraft crashed into the Moon on Friday morning, on purpose, in a bid to discover ice hidden below the lunar surface. Continue reading