Miles O'Brien

Scientists from the European Space Agency have just discovered 32 "exo-planets" — planets in other solar systems, most of them much larger than Earth. For an explanation of what we kn...

NASA has long been the government agency meant to lead the charge to the future, at least in the public's imagination. A report to Congress from an independent body of experts has put...

NASA is set to blast off probes on Thursday in a lunar exploration mission to scout water sources and landing sites in anticipation of humans' return to the moon. NASA was hoping to s...

By 2050, there will be 130 million more people in the country, relying on an increasingly aging and inadequate transportation system. The stimulus money is supposed to help— tens of b...

Miles O’Brien, freelance space reporter and former CNN chief science/technology/environment correspondent, talks about the void in leadership at NASA and what it means for the shuttle program.

It gets in your shoes, in your eyes, and your mouth and your hair and don’t get me started on when it gets in your space capsule. We're talking about lunar dust and any astronaut who ...

So there’s this show, you might have heard of it, called Battlestar Galactica. And on the show, the human race is on the hunt for a mystical planet called Earth. Now, we humans today ...