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In this image made from a NASA livestream, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft crashes into an asteroid

NASA spacecraft successfully crashes into asteroid during space defense test

Science & Technology

A NASA spacecraft has successfully made impact with an asteroid in an unprecedented practice run to thwart potential incoming threats to Earth.

This combo of images released by NASA shows a side-by-side comparison of observations of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, at left, and mid-infrared light, at right, from the Webb Telescope

New images from NASA telescope give a never-before-seen look into the cosmos

Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin is shown in a black and white portrait photograph wearing a space helmet with the visor open.

It’s been 60 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first man in outer space

Science

Ann Druyan on Art and Outer Space

Arts, Culture & Media

Joe Davis’s Universe

Arts, Culture & Media

Music of the Spheres

Arts, Culture & Media

Allison Dean explores how the ancient Greeks’ model of the structure of the universe still shapes our music.

Space Age Obsession

Arts, Culture & Media

A collecting confession from Simpsons writer George Meyer.

Space Age Obsession

Arts, Culture & Media

A collecting confession from Simpsons writer and executive producer George Meyer. (Originally aired: January 10, 2002)

Ann Druyan on Art and Outer Space

Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt Andersen talks with science philosopher Ann Druyan about art and outer space.Druyan has written and produced TV programs about space, and conceived the filmContactin collaboration with her husband, the late astronomer Carl Sagan. She is a former philosopher and former secretary of the Federation of American Scientists, and she now runs Cosmos Studios, a […]

Hidden Worlds

Arts, Culture & Media

Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall believes there are more dimensions to space – possibly 13 more — than the three we experience. She’s faced the challenge of describing a world that no one can see. Produced by Sarah Lilley.