NEW YORK — It was bedlam on Broadway as the New York Knicks won their first NBA championship in 53 years on Saturday night, with exuberant celebrations marred by mayhem and violence, including gunshots in Times Square. Outside Madison Square Garden, a crowd watching on a big screen roared as the Knicks rallied from a … Read more
As it passed behind Mars six months ago, NASA’s MAVEN probe was still working normally, studying how the solar wind impacts the Martian atmosphere. But during that 20- to 30-minute pass behind the red planet, out of contact with Earth, something went wrong, and the spacecraft has not been heard from since. On Wednesday, after … Read more
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After six months of radio silence, NASA’s Maven spacecraft at Mars has been declared dead. The space agency confirmed Wednesday that the mission had ended after more than a decade of observations. Launched in 2013 to study the red planet’s atmosphere from orbit, Maven mysteriously fell silent in early December after … Read more
A NASA spacecraft headed toward the asteroid belt will fly past Mars on Friday, aiming to get a boost from the planet’s gravitational field and save some of the propellant it needs to complete the second half of a six-year voyage. The spacecraft, called Psyche after the rare asteroid it will explore, launched in October … Read more
NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered more building blocks of life on Mars after carrying out a chemistry experiment never before conducted on another planet, scientists said Tuesday. The organic molecules are not definitive evidence of past life, the NASA-led team emphasized, because they could also have formed on the red planet or crash-landed on meteorites. But … Read more
Former NASA astronaut on how Artemis II could eventually lead to humans living on Mars – CBS News Watch CBS News A crew of four astronauts are set for liftoff on Wednesday in a mission that will take them around the moon. Former NASA astronaut Terry Hart joins “The Takeout” to discuss the historic Artemis … Read more