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Multiple crash tests at the Landing and Impact Research Center in Virginia are helping to build a smarter emergency locator transmitter when a crash is imminent. Kris Van Cleave reports.
While the world is waiting to learn more about the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, NASA is on a dramatic mission of its own involving small plane crashes. The space agency wants to improve the tiny transmitters on board, designed to alert satellites within seconds of an accident. Kris Van Cleave reports from NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, where they are crashing planes to find answers.
A new NASA video stitches together images from New Horizons' Pluto flyby to give an animated view of the icy dwarf planet.
NASA released new findings about Pluto on Friday. CBS News Space Consultant Bill Harwood explains.
NASA believes it's found the most Earth-like planet yet. Kepler 452-b is named for NASA's Kepler telescope. The space agency calls it an "older, bigger cousin to Earth." Lee Billings, space and physics editor of Scientific American, joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss the planet.
NASA announced the discovery of the most Earth-like planet ever found. CBSN's Vladimir Duthiers has the galactic details.
NASA scientists are receiving new images from a piano-sized spacecraft that flew past Pluto. The images are the result of $700 million and three billion miles of travel. Chip Reid reports with scientists' reactions on the historic findings.
NASA has released the highest resolution pictures of Pluto ever captured by the New Horizons space probe. Bill Nye "The Science Guy" talked about the future of the U.S. Space program with CBSN.
The new images are being sent back Wednesday from the outer edge of the solar system by the New Horizons spacecraft. This follows its up-close look at the dwarf planet. Vinita Nair reports on Pluto fever.
Three billion miles from earth, NASA's New Horizons probe just flew by Pluto. The journey to the farthest edge of our solar system took nearly a decade. CBS News science and futurist contributor Michio Kaku, who wrote in the Wall Street Journal about how this might save Earth, joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss the feat.
NASA spacecraft New Horizon is providing an unprecedented view of the dwarf planet, and there will be many more to come. After flying for over nine years, the small space probe has snapped up-close photographs. Elaine Quijano reports on the first-of-its-kind mission, nearly three billion miles from earth.
A piano-sized spacecraft named “New Horizons” will speed past the former ninth planet on Tuesday. NASA is expecting its first detailed pictures of the icy planet. Meg Oliver reports.
The short "taxi" flight clears the way for arrival of another Crew Dragon later this month.
Paula Cain once made clothes and purses, but now she works in a lab outside Washington DC turning mylar and netting into blankets that protect satellites in space. CBS News' Mark Albert reports.
On Easter Sunday, NASA announced two more Easter eggs hidden onboard everyone's favorite rover.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon cargo ship loaded with more than 4,000 pounds of supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station broke apart in a shower of debris shortly after launch Sunday.
It's one small step for Ingenuity, one giant leap for aviation history.
A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars has sent back images of glass deposits which scientists say could hold signs of life on the red planet. CBSN's Kristine Johnson describes the discovery.
NASA has test launched a capsule attached to a football stadium sized balloon for a planned mission to Mars. CBSN's Elaine Quijano talks about the launch
On March 27, 2015, American Scott Kelly went up to the International Space Station along with Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. CBS News' William Harwood caught up with the pair from the ground to see how they're doing more than two months into their yearlong stay in space.
Ted Southern started his career making wings for some of the most beautiful women in the world. His work became the signature of the Victoria’s Secret clothing line. Now he’s shooting for the stars with his new designs, working with NASA to create new-age space suits. Vinita Nair reports.
Lesley Stahl reports on the depletion of crucial groundwater across the globe -- with a focus on California -- and the NASA satellite technology that is revealing the situation's seriousness. Watch Stahl's report on Sunday, May 31 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
NASA has finally closed a gap in the litany of evidence connecting humans to climate change.
NASA astronaut Terry Virts shared a video recorded at the International Space Station of an aurora stretching across the North Pole during a massive solar storm
Bill Harwood, CBS News Space Consultant, discusses a Soyuz capsule landing safely Wednesday night in Kazakhstan. NASA's Barry Wilmore and a male and female cosmonaut were on board.
Conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk died Wednesday after he was shot at an event at Utah Valley University.
Charlie Kirk died Wednesday after he was shot in the neck while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University.
A new lawsuit filed by fired FBI agents says the bureau "tried to put the President in jail and he hasn't forgotten it."
Former Vice President Kamala Harris' book, "107 Days," will detail her sprint of a race for the presidency.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says the suspect is also in the hospital with injuries from self-inflicted shots.
It's unclear if the repeal will end up in the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act, which still has to get through the Senate.
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life.
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison took the title of world's richest person from Elon Musk after stock in the software giant shot up on Wednesday.
Passengers endured 2.5 minutes of turbulence that caught the pilots by surprise even though they had already altered their route to avoid the storms, the NTSB said.