A tour of Quito Ecuador in South America. We visited the Middle of the World and Museum. The country was aptly named after the equator when Finnish scientists in the 1800s declared it the prime place on Earth to measure the equator’s bulge. Thanks to this, Mount Chimborazo (6310m) in the country’s

The 500,000-pound Stratolaunch jet took off for the first time ever for a two-hour flight over California's Mojave desert. It's designed as a flying launch pad for as many as three satellite-laden rockets. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood joins CBSN to explain why this launch is a benefit to t...

The James Webb Space Telescope is nearing completion of the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory’s primary mirror using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument.

The Artemis missions will build a community on the Moon, driving a new lunar economy and inspiring a new generation. Narrator Drew Barrymore and NASA team members explain why returning to the Moon is the natural next step in human exploration, and how the lessons learned from Artemis will pave the w

As part of our popular space exploration series we present this local rocket launch reaching very high altitudes and then returning back to the launch site with a baloon parachu landing.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has begun beaming back photographs of the surface of Pluto as it approaches the dwarf planet. . Report by Conor Mcnally.

UNC Chanel Hill laboratory discusses tardigrades on the National Geographic channel, with a film of tun formation by Daiki Horikawa.

Felix Baumgartner´s epic jump from the edge of space. the red Bull Stratos Projekt breaks 4 records in one. Felix Baumgartner reaches speed higher than the speed of sound.

This video zooms into the core of a rich star-birth region called the Lagoon Nebula, located in the constellation Sagittarius in the direction of our Milky Way galaxy’s central bulge.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft will deliberately crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try and knock it off course. Scientists at NASA and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory hope the DART mission could help us save Earth from a catastrophic impact.