Jan 01 5 space milestones in 2023 that are 'rewriting textbooks' By Casey Kuhn, Miles O'Brien This year saw incredibly detailed images from the most advanced telescope in space, as well as the 25th year of a global partnership sending astronauts to orbit Earth. Continue reading
Dec 06 Watch 6:20 The scientific and cultural impact of the International Space Station after 25 years By Geoff Bennett, Karina Cuevas, Miles O'Brien This week marks the 25th anniversary of when astronauts first entered the beginnings of the International Space Station. A quarter of a century later, the station is manned by seven international crew members and has become an iconic and important… Continue watching
Aug 10 Watch 5:05 Antarctic sea ice at record lows as global temperatures rise By William Brangham, Shoshana Dubnow As temperature records fall all over the planet this summer, scientists are also increasingly concerned about what’s happening to the sea ice around Antarctica. William Brangham reports. Continue watching
Aug 08 Astronauts get first look at the Artemis II spacecraft that will fly them around the moon By Associated Press The U.S.-Canadian crew inspected the capsule during a visit to Kennedy Space Center late Monday and Tuesday. NASA plans to send the four around the moon and back late next year. Continue reading
Apr 04 Meet the 4 astronauts who will fly around the moon during NASA's Artemis II mission By Wendy Whitman Cobb, The Conversation The Artemis II mission is scheduled for launch in late 2024 and is a critical step towards NASA’s goals of establishing a permanent human presence on and near the moon. Continue reading
Dec 11 Watch 6:16 What next for space exploration after NASA's Artemis 1 mission? NASA's Orion spacecraft splashed down Sunday afternoon just off California's Baja Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean. The 26-day Artemis 1 test mission marked a significant step toward returning astronauts to the moon. Miles O'Brien joins Geoff Bennett to discuss the… Continue watching
Jul 25 Watch 8:27 Scientists measure how quickly crucial Antarctica glacier is melting By Miles O'Brien Climate change's connections with the extreme heat and weather events in the U.S. and around the globe have been well established. But climate change is also having a measurable impact on a much slower-moving development: the loss of glaciers and… Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch 10:09 Communities are embracing 'controlled burns' to protect themselves By Christopher Booker, Sam Weber The past few years have led to record wildfires across the U.S. Decades of suppressing fires has led to overgrown forests, and a warming climate has increased their intensity and frequency. Christopher Booker reports from California on community-led efforts to… Continue watching
Mar 19 Antarctica and the Arctic are at least 50 degrees warmer than average By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat with parts of Antarctica more than 70 degrees (40 degrees Celsius) warmer than average and areas of the Arctic more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) warmer than average. Continue reading
Mar 02 Space junk on 5,800-mph collision course with moon By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The moon is about to get walloped by a big piece of space junk. The leftover rocket will slam into the far side of the moon Friday. Experts think it is from a China launch from 2014, but China is… Continue reading