Space
Aurora Borealis Glows Brightly for ISS Camera
May 12, 2017, 6:00 pm EDT
A gorgeous video of the aurora borealis is transmitted from the International Space Station.
Two-Year Secret Space Mission Ends
May 8, 2017, 2:00 pm EDT
Producer Jennifer Willen describes how a mysterious U.S. space plane ended a two-year mission when it landed with a sonic boom at Cape Canaveral.
See Giant Gas ‘Tsunami’ in Space
May 8, 2017, 9:25 am EDT
NASA finds a giant gas “tsunami” in space -- twice the size of our Milky Way galaxy.
NOAA Satellite Shows Lightning, Massive Clouds
May 5, 2017, 2:09 pm EDT
Lockheed Martin and the NOAA GOES-16 weather satellite shows the powerful storm system over the United States from April 28 and 29, with massive clouds and multiple lightning flashes.
SpaceX Deploys Classified Satellite
May 1, 2017, 4:01 pm EDT
A SpaceX rocket carried a classified satellite into space, and then the booster returned successfully to earth.
Aurora and Lighting Seen From the ISS
May 1, 2017, 11:04 am EDT
Time-lapse photography aboard the International Space Station captures gorgeous aurora images along with lightning down on Earth.
ISS Video Shows California Lightning
April 20, 2017, 3:25 pm EDT
Stunning time-lapse video from the International Space Station shows lightning from a nighttime storm in California.
Danger Grows with Surge in Space Junk
April 19, 2017, 3:07 pm EDT
The amount of space junk orbiting the Earth is growing and could spell disaster for spacecraft.
Cassini to Slam into Saturn in September
April 19, 2017, 6:19 am EDT
The Cassini spacecraft is running low on fuel, so scientists plan to send it plunging into Saturn, the planet it’s been studying for the past 20 years, in dramatic fashion.
NASA Helps Us See Earth at Night
April 17, 2017, 1:15 pm EDT
NASA is stepping up its ability to show us Earth at night, producing a new, more detailed map of lights across the globe that show human activity