Aug 29 WATCH: NASA reviews plan to recover Bennu asteroid sample via OSIRIS-REx By Bella Isaacs-Thomas NASA researchers on Wednesday will share how they plan to retrieve rock samples plucked from the surface of an ancient asteroid next month. Continue reading
Aug 26 New International Space Station crew launches with 4 astronauts from 4 countries By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Four astronauts from four countries rocketed toward the International Space Station on Saturday. They should reach the orbiting lab in their SpaceX capsule Sunday, replacing four astronauts living up there since March. Continue reading
Aug 23 Watch 6:15 The significance of India’s successful landing on the moon’s south pole By Amna Nawaz, Miles O'Brien, Mary Fecteau It was a historic day for India as it became the fourth country to land on the moon. It comes after a failed attempt in 2019 and just days behind a failed Russian lunar landing. Prime Minister Modi watched alongside… Continue watching
Aug 23 India becomes only the 4th country to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon By Ashok Sharma, Associated Press India made history by becoming the first country to touch down near the little-explored south pole region. Continue reading
Aug 21 Russia’s first lunar mission in decades ends with spacecraft crash on the moon By Associated Press Roscosmos said it lost contact with the Luna-25 on Saturday after the spacecraft ran into difficulties and reported an “abnormal situation.” The Luna-25 was in a race with an Indian spacecraft to be the first to reach the moon's south… Continue reading
Aug 10 Russia launches its first mission to the moon in almost 50 years By Jim Heintz, Emma Burrows, Associated Press A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft blasted off Friday on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on the lunar south pole before a spacecraft from India gets there. Continue reading
Jul 30 Get ready to catch a double supermoon feature this August. Here’s when to look By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The last time two full supermoons graced the sky in the same month was in 2018. It won’t happen again until 2037, according to Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi, founder of the Virtual Telescope Project. Continue reading
Jul 01 European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope takes off to seek out the universe’s darkest secrets By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press SpaceX launched the European Space Agency’s Euclid observatory toward its ultimate destination 1 million miles away, the James Webb Space Telescope’s neighborhood. Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch 5:41 Gravitational wave discovery leads to greater understanding of the fabric of our universe By Geoff Bennett, Miles O'Brien, Shoshana Dubnow Albert Einstein theorized that as heavy objects move through space and time, they create ripple effects in the fabric of our universe. Now an international team of scientists have detected new evidence of that. Researchers found new signs of gravitational… Continue watching
Jun 08 How did the ocean form? 4 things to know about its past and present By Bella Isaacs-Thomas The ocean has undergone a lot of change, just as it continues to evolve today. Here are some facts you may not have known about this vast, shimmering source of life. Continue reading