GOES-R Weather Satellite Set To Launch
A new generation of weather satellite, called GOES R, will lift off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center in just under 24 hours.
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A new generation of weather satellite, called GOES R, will lift off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center in just under 24 hours.
The International Space Station is a triumph of humanity that has been orbiting earth for 16 years. Now, NASA is making it easier for you to catch a glimpse of it zipping across the sky.
Officials at NASA say that the Perseid meteor shower will peak Thursday and Friday, filling the night sky with shooting stars.
The Science Museum of Minnesota has a $14 million contract to help turn NASA's deep wealth of space research into interactive exhibits, activities and other learning experiences.
Vikki Inamagua, 15, is battling a painful metabolic disorder. But that's only part of the story -- she is space aficionado.
On Wednesday, scientists at NASA and NOAA announced a historic finding about global temperatures in 2015.
Today NASA released this new image of Earth, as it was rising above the horizon on the moon. The image was created by stitching together a series of images taken on October 12, 2015 from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
While there are still two weeks left in the year, most of the weather data is already in the books for 2015. What's clear is that it was a very warm year -- not just here in the upper Midwest, but across the entire globe -- and that warmth will likely set some records.
You may remember earlier this week when astronaut Kjell Lindgren tweeted a picture of Minneapolis from the International Space Station, orbiting the earth. Well now, St. Paul residents got a photo of their own.
The International Space Station may just seem like something floating around in space, but it actually has a real impact on our everyday lives. Now, NASA is bringing the experience of the ISS to the Twin Cities in Destination Station.
Ever wonder what Minneapolis looks like from space? Well, wonder no longer! On Tuesday morning, Astronaut Kjell Lindgren tweeted the photo of what Minneapolis looks like from the International Space Station.
On Wednesday afternoon, NASA released a series of photographs of Pluto that show ice mountains as high as the Rockies. Those pictures came from an unmanned spacecraft that took nine-and-a-half years to make the three-billion mile trip to the dwarf planet. The cost was $720 million dollars, but experts say the benefits are far more than that. So, why does Pluto matter? Good Question.
NASA scientists and planet lovers everywhere are cheering the Pluto space probe, which is now sending images of the dwarf planet back to Earth. The cost of the 10-year voyage is raising eyebrows, but not for the reasons you might think.
An astronaut trained as a doctor in Minnesota is set to go into space next week. Dr. Kjell Lindgren will be part of NASA's Expedition 44/45 launch on July 22. The Soyuz spacecraft will carry a crew including Lindgren to the International Space Station.
We've made it to Pluto by NASA's calculations, the last stop on a planetary tour of the solar system a half-century in the making. The moment of closest approach for the New Horizons spacecraft came at 7:49 a.m. EDT Tuesday, culminating a journey from planet Earth that spanned an incredible 3 billion miles and 9½ years.
Among the experiments lost when an unmanned Space X rocket exploded after launch Sunday in Florida was the latest project by the Minnehaha Academy International Space Station team.
Atlantic hurricane season doesn't start officially until June 1, but this year we've already seen our first named storm.
After a nearly eight-year journey, a NASA spacecraft on Friday flawlessly slipped into orbit around Ceres in the first visit to a dwarf planet. The Dawn craft will circle the dwarf planet for more than a year, exploring its surface and unraveling its mysteries.
Whether it's chewy and gooey or crunchy and savory, many of us reach for certain foods to make us feel better.
What is the size of a football field, has a gym, and the best view in our solar system? The International Space Station is an orbiting laboratory or habitable artificial satellite (fancy!) and serves as a space port for a myriad of multi-national spacecraft.
This year marks the 45th anniversary of the 1969 landing on the moon and the realization of President Kennedy's dream.
Every year, as the Earth spins into the fragment field of the comet Swift-Tuttle. Pieces of rocky space debris, or meteoroids, slam into our atmosphere at 132,000 mph, producing the year's most action-packed meteor shower – the Perseids. Generating 50-100 meteors per hour, the Perseid meteor shower runs through Aug. 24 with peak activity set to occur over the next few nights.
While a lot of high school juniors and seniors are worried about finding a prom date, 13 Minnehaha Academy students are on a different mission: sending a NASA-approved experiment to space.
As the title might imply, most meteorologists are interested in way more than the weather. Like meteors; all things space, really. That's why this new picture from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity caught my attention today.
If losing weight is on your resolution list for 2014 but working out is painful or difficult, there's technology now available to the general public that may help you reach your goals. NASA has created an anti-gravity treadmill called the AlterG, and WCCO-TV's Natalie Nyhus tested it out.
