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hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. im rosemary church. just ahead here on "cnn newsroom," air-raid sirens going off in kyiv this morning. civilians warned to seek shelter as russian drones target ukraines capital. more never before seen video of the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. some candidates are already sowing doubt about the integritiy of the upcoming election. plus -- its now been a month of tense often viole...

Nasa has streamed a cat video to Earth using a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles away.

A new technique for finding potentially hazardous asteroids before they find us has chalked up its first success. In this case, the asteroid isn’t expected to threaten Earth anytime in the foreseeable future. But the fact that the technique — which uses a new computer algorithm called HelioLinc3D — actually works comes as a confidence boost as astronomers get set to step up the asteroid hunt with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The University of Washington’s D...

NASA warns that there is a huge asteroid heading towards Earth’s orbital path, capable of causing damage akin to a nuclear explosion.

>> reporter: lucy is finally in the sky. the nasa spacecraft is on a 12-year mission to fly past eight ancient asteroids. lucy is the first mission to investigate the trojan asteroid swarms, which are asteroid clusters along jupiters orbital path. armed with cameras, a thermometer, and an infrared imaging speck totrometerspectro collect the first images of these asteroids. she gets her name from the lucy fossil. nasa hopes its lucy transforms the understanding of the evolution of the solar syste...

Theyll set up equipment and test technology needed to complete construction. and they should have the station operational by the end of next year. the u.s. space agency, nasa, has just started a different kind of mission. it has launched a spacecraft named lucy towards jupiters orbit. its mission is to help learn how the solar system formed billions of years ago. and as cnns kristin fisher explains, lucys name is a tribute to an ancient human ancestor and a famous beatle song. >> three, two, one...