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 07 New Saturn Ring Could Hold a Billion Earths A team of scientists have discovered a new ring around the planet Saturn, already famous for its many rings, that is so large that it has the volume equivalent to one billion Earths. Continue reading
Aug 14 With Eyes on Moon and Mars, Space Exploration Goes Under Review According to a presidential review panel, the U.S. plan to return astronauts to the moon by 2020 will not happen without a big boost in NASA's budget. Continue reading
Aug 14 Watch Budget Woes Expected to Ground Some Space Missions U.S. budget constraints threaten to ground some of NASA's manned space missions. Judy Woodruff looks at the space program and its future prospects. Continue watching
Jul 20 ‘We Sent Music and Laughter There’: Man and the Moon, 40 Years On Now re-released by the Criterion Collection, the new DVD version of "For All Mankind" is far superior to the original grainy images most watched for the first time on their TVs. Continue reading
Jul 06 Why Are Christmas Tree Stands Different in NYC? Robert Frank: Economic naturalists often find that many interesting new questions are stimulated by the experience of living in an unfamiliar environment. That’s always been my experience during sabbaticals spent away from Ithaca. One Saturday last December during my… Continue reading
May 21 Five Years Later, Mars Rovers Continue to Make Discoveries By PBS News Hour More than four years after its expected demise, the Mars rover Opportunity continues to send back valuable data as it crawls across the planet's surface. Continue reading
May 11 Watch Atlantis Embarks on Last Hubble Telescope Repair Mission The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off Monday on the fifth and final mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. The crew will add a new camera and make other changes. Spencer Michels reports. Continue watching
Mar 06 NASA Telescope to Search for Earth-like Planets By PBS News Hour A NASA telescope is set to launch Friday night from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, on a three-and-a-half year mission to scan the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-like planets. Continue reading
Nov 14 Astronomers Capture First Images of Distant Planets By PBS News Hour Two teams of astronomers have for the first time captured direct images of planets orbiting faraway stars. Continue reading