Apr 10 SpaceX pulls off first successful mid-ocean rocket landing By Daniel Costa-Roberts Four failed attempts and years of effort paid off Friday, as the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster re-entered Earth's atmosphere and lowered itself vertically onto a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean -- the company's first successful landing at sea. Continue reading
Apr 06 This supernova blast was so close, it littered the ocean floor with radioactive dust By Nsikan Akpan Radioactive stardust confirms the two closest supernovae to ever explode near Earth. The most recent of the pair may have altered human evolution. Continue reading
Mar 31 China wants to mine the moon for ‘space gold’ By Vikram Mansharamani Tinkering in the heavens has emerged as an important plank of China’s geopolitical strategy. Continue reading
Mar 18 What we’ve learned about Pluto since the flyby By Nsikan Akpan NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto continues to astonish in new set of five studies on the dwarf planet. Continue reading
Mar 04 WATCH LIVE: NASA commander Scott Kelly discusses his one-year space mission By Nsikan Akpan At 2 p.m. EST today, astronaut Scott Kelly will be live from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where he will share his personal perspective on his 340-day mission in space. Continue reading
Feb 24 Take a cruise across our cold galaxy and witness the birthplace of stars By Nsikan Akpan Scientists use a telescope in Chile to complete a survey of the coldest parts of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Continue reading
Feb 23 How do you make a chicken taco in space? By PBS News Hour How hard is it to prepare food in space? It’s one of the challenges astronaut Scott Kelly faces during his year aboard the International Space Station, the longest space mission in American history. Continue reading
Feb 11 Watch 5:25 What’s the sound of two black holes colliding? Proof that Einstein was right By PBS News Hour Gravitational waves -- ripples in the fabric of spacetime -- aren’t just an Einstein theory any more. A team of international scientists announced Thursday that they confirmed the waves’ existence after recording feedback from a black hole collision a billion… Continue watching
Feb 10 Why it’s cool to be a space geek teacher By Vic Pasquantonio More than 400 teachers from 40 different states and seven countries ventured to Texas for a three-day space conference sponsored by Space Center Houston, a nonprofit organization backed by the support of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Continue reading
Jan 28 Watch 6:25 Remembering Challenger, a disaster that shook up the space program By PBS News Hour Thirty years ago, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff, a tragedy that was broadcast on live television. Nationwide excitement for the mission turned to horror over the crew of seven who died on board. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien… Continue watching