Aug 19 Watch Facing Budget Battles, NASA Still Aims High With Asteroid Capture Mission Facing Budget Battles, NASA Still Aims High in Asteroid Capture Mission… Continue watching
Aug 16 Watch Time Runs Out for Telescope, Examining Kepler’s Contribution to Space Research Time Runs Out for Telescope, Examining Kepler's Contribution to Space Research… Continue watching
Jun 06 Venus Transit as Revealed in Space By Jenny Marder For those Earthlings lucky enough to be under cloudless skies during Tuesday's Venus transit, it took the form of a pea-sized dot gliding across the Sun's northern hemisphere. For more perspective, NASA has collected a stunning sampling of images both… Continue reading
Jun 01 Watch Viewing the Venus Transit: What’s the Safest Way? Viewing the Venus Transit: What's the Safest Way?… Continue watching
Jan 25 Watch How to Catch a Black Hole, Explained Hari interviews MIT's Shep Doeleman on plans to capture the first-ever black hole image. Continue watching
Feb 03 Watch My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us New Planets — 1,200 of Them Perhaps you learned a mnemonic device such as the one above to help remember the planets -- Mercury, Venus, Earth, etc. -- and their order away from the sun. Turns out, we're going to need a longer mnemonic after the… Continue watching
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
Mar 04 In Paper Folding, Art and Science Align By PBS News Hour Eight years ago, physicist Robert Lang's career path took an unusual turn. The laser physicist and lifelong origami artist quit his Silicon Valley job to concentrate full-time on origami. Continue reading
Oct 31 Watch NASA Announces Repair Plans for Aging Hubble Telescope NASA announced Tuesday that it would send a final repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, tentatively in 2008, to extend the life of the orbiting observatory to at least 2013. Hubble's senior project scientist discusses the history and future… Continue watching