NASA’s Perseverance Rover has reached the Red Planet and will go through the final phase known as Entry, Descent and Landing. Perseverance was launched on July 30, 2020, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, aboard an ULA’s Atlas V-541 rocket, and will land on Mars at Jezero Crater after travelli

Community of Lights captured this amazing cloud at the end of July in the late afternoon in Fire Island Pines, a beautiful barrier island off the coast of New York. The cloud was about 500 feet wide and sever miles long covering the entire island as it went by, and then vanished in the Atlantic Oce...

A total solar eclipse is moving its way across North America Monday. CBS News' Norah O'Donnell, Tony Dokoupil and Bill Harwood are watching the celestial event from Indianapolis as totality takes over Mazatlán, Mexico. Also, astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz explains how scientists are using the opportu

COVID-19 is changing the way we live and function in society. We are learning how to stay safe by wearing masks and following social distancing. The world is adapting to a new reality in the way we travel, how we teach our children, farm our food and eat in restaurants, perform safely and even how ...

Our SpaceX Crew-6 mission safely returns to Earth, the tech demo hitching a ride on our Psyche spacecraft, and studying ancient life on Earth to better understand Mars … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates had an informative conversation with Ellen about his foundation’s efforts to help find a vaccine and therapeutics for COVID-19, the effect the pandemic is having on the economy, when we can expect to get back to “normal life,” and what gives him hope d

music minds See an expanded version of the film's sequence on Oliver Sacks's brain as it reacts to different pieces of music.

A Russian research ship has spotted an extremely rare white adult orca, or killer whale, off the coast of Kamchatka for the first time in history. No one knows the reason for the whale's unusual pigmentation. ­The scientists identified the whale by his pure white fin, swimming together with his pod,

The new music video is a tribute to those working on the frontlines during the current global health crisis, and showcases clips of Streisand interspersed with photos of the workers. Streisand first released the song on her album Higher Ground in 1997. She later performed the song in a surprise appe...

US space agency NASA has warned that a huge 1,082 ft asteroid bigger than the Eiffel Tower will break into Earth’s orbit in just over a week.The space rock is heading our way and should skim past us on December 11. NASA has its eye on Asteroid 4660 Nereus because it’s well over 492 feet long and wil