Jul 01 Watch 7:20 The unfolding detective story of dwarf planet Ceres By PBS News Hour NASA’s Dawn spacecraft set out in 2007 to explore Ceres and Vesta, the two largest objects in our solar system’s asteroid belt. What has Dawn discovered so far? Judy Woodruff sits down with NewsHour’s senior online editor Jenny Marder, who… Continue watching
Jun 14 European comet lander speaks after seven-month hibernation By Kenzi Abou-Sabe On Saturday, Philae, the European Space Agency's comet lander, communicated with its team on Earth for the first time since going into hibernation in November of last year. Continue reading
Jun 11 Bill Nye’s experimental satellite finally sails on the solar wind By Catherine Woods It’s a bird…it’s a plane…No! It’s a sun-propelled cubesat! Born in 1999, cubesats are the generation Y of satellites. They’re miniaturized and inexpensive, while doing the stuff of regular satellites — tracking stars and beaming telecommunications. But like any space… Continue reading
May 22 What’s making this galaxy shine with the light of 300 trillion suns? By Colleen Shalby In a galaxy far, far away -- specifically 12.5 billion years from Earth -- shines the light of over 300 trillion suns. Continue reading
May 11 NASA’s Curiosity captures blue sunset on the Red Planet By Joshua Barajas Last month, NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a blue sunset on the Red Planet. The sight was poetic enough to inspire the rover to quote T.S. Eliot in a tweet. Continue reading
May 01 Mission to Mars may warp astronaut brains By Nsikan Akpan One day, space explorers might stroll along the red rocks of Mars. But radiation exposure during the trip may wipe away their memories of home. A new report says that cosmic rays can change the physical architecture of the… Continue reading
Apr 24 Watch 3:33 Before it showed us distant reaches of the universe, the Hubble telescope ‘needed glasses’ By PBS News Hour Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has sent back more than a million observations and amazing images, offering scientists and stargazers an unmatched window to the universe. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien joins Judy Woodruff to celebrate Hubble’s… Continue watching
Apr 13 GoPros go on a space walk By Sarah McHaney NASA has released an hour long stunning sequence of footage from two GoPros accompanying astronauts on a February spacewalk. The two astronauts, Barry Wilmore and Terry Virts, were reconfiguring the external port on the International Space Station in preparation for… Continue reading
Mar 30 Watch 6:52 Astronaut Scott Kelly sets out to break an American record in space By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 26 Astronaut Scott Kelly to return to space for one year By Jenny Marder On Friday, 51-year-old astronaut Scott Kelly, who has flown three previous space missions, will return to the International Space Station, where he will remain for a year. A whole year. Continue reading