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This animation shows visible and infrared satellite data from NOAA's GOES-East satellite that shows the development and movement of the weather system that spawned tornadoes affecting the Midwest and Southern U.S.
NASA raised eyebrows with a bold statement about humanity’s future at a space conference in Washington. Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer and planetarium director at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia joins “CBS This Morning: Saturday” to discuss the plausibility of colonizing the red planet.
With much of the country prone to sinkholes, NASA is lending a hand, using cutting-edge technology to help predict sinkholes. CBS News' Vicente Arenas reports.
Lunney was considered one of NASA's brightest flight controllers, bringing calm expertise to space operations.
A time-lapse video shot by NASA satellites and other agencies captures wildfires, storms, growing population and rain. Gayle King reports..
Large asteroids are hitting the Earth far more often than anyone realized, according to a group led by former NASA astronauts. "CBS This Morning" contributor and physics professor at the City University of New York, Michio Kaku, talks about the threat to humans.
SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft reached the International Space Station on Sunday, bearing supplies and equipment for the station's crew. The cargo run is the third by SpaceX under a 12-flight, $1.6 billion contract with NASA.
Private spaceflight company SpaceX launches its third official Dragon cargo run to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The company's Dragon capsule is expected to deliver about 5,000 pounds of food, supplies and experiments.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station may need to take a spacewalk to fix a computer problem. The main computer is functional and the six-man crew is in no danger. Anthony Mason reports.
Nelson has broad experience in space legislation and would bring an insider's knowledge to the NASA helm.
The largest and fastest asteroid to pass by Earth this year is arriving on Sunday.
From coffee cups designed for use in zero gravity to American and Russian spacesuits, collectors snatched up extremely rare mementos during an auction in New York. Many of the museum-quality artifact were originally from the astronauts who used them, including Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Don Dahler reports.
NASA released a spectacular video on Sunday from its Solar Dynamics Observatory of a flare erupting from the sun. The M-class flare which NASA described as "graceful" on their YouTube channel, took place on April 2nd 2014
NASA, the country's space agency, says it is cutting most of its ties with Russia, which will limit travel and communications for its employees, but the new policy does not affect the International Space Station. Charlie Rose reports.
A crew of three men, including a NASA shuttle flier, a veteran Russian space station commander, and rookie cosmonaut launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, headed for the International Space Station. The mission will boost the space station's crew back up to six, with the journey expected to take around six hours.
A successful test will clear the way for the rocket's maiden flight in NASA's Artemis moon program.
NASA's Perseverance rover has sent back audio of the noise it makes operating on the red planet. CBSN's Tanya Rivero has details of this first from space.
Perseverance has beamed back the first ever audio recordings of a rover driving across the Martian surface.
Scientists are celebrating a major development in the study of how the universe grew, after finding evidence of gravitational waves that came shortly after the Big Bang. Don Dahler reports on how this discovery could give researchers a new tool with which to explore the universe.
Amazon is raising the price of its Prime subscription service from $79 to $99 a year. It's the first increase since the program started in 2005. But the company says if you join during the next seven days you can still get the lower rate. Current users will see the hike when they renew. Amazon Prime gives you unlimited, free two-day shipping on most items. Jill Wagner has the latest MoneyWatch headlines.
Spending many months in space can have debilitating effects on the human body. But while astronauts risk radiation exposure and loss of muscle and bone mass, they're still lining up to take part in the next odyssey. Chip Reid reports.
CBS News correspondent Chip Reid looks at the Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab, a pool with an underwater mock-up of the International Space Station where astronauts can train in weightless conditions in specially retrofitted spacesuits.
Asteroids are known to break up near the sun. NASA's Hubble space telescope has now captured images of an asteroid breaking up in the asteroid belt, an event that astronomers expected was possible but had never seen.
Meteorologist Megan Glaros reports on a powerful new weather satellite that will help meteorologists predict severe weather patterns.
From PayPal to electric cars to rockets, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk wants his company, SpaceX, to build America's next manned spacecraft. Scott Pelley reports.
The Justice Department early Tuesday released tens of thousands of additional documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files, unveiling the latest group under a new law.
President Trump announced plans to build a new "Trump class" of battleships, part of the Pentagon's new "Golden Fleet."
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal is pushing for more information on a White House ballroom project championed by President Trump, sending letters to the project's architect and some fundraising dinner attendees.
A federal judge gave the Trump administration two weeks to submit a plan to either return a group of men previously held at a notorious Salvadoran prison to the U.S., or give them a hearing to contest allegations of gang membership.
A small Mexican navy plane on a medical mission crashed Monday near Galveston, Texas, killing at least five people.
Brown University police chief Rodney Chatman has been placed on leave after the mass shooting that killed two students in Providence, Rhode Island.
President Trump has responded to the release of the Epstein files, saying Monday that the release of photos risked ensnaring "highly respected" people with no connection to Epstein's crimes.
The U.S. military says it struck a vessel that was allegedly carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific on Monday, killing one person — part of a months-long campaign of boat strikes near Latin America.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill version of the weight-loss drug Wegovy.