While a James Cameron-backed asteroid mining company might have an abundance of money and imagination, the actual technology to mine asteroids doesn't exist... yet.
Last week, NASA announced the formation of the Mars Program Planning Group. The hope is to get another robotic rover on the surface of the Mars by as early as 2018, all with the ultimate goal of sending a human to the planet sometime in the 2030s. But what will NASA’s future rovers look like?
A discovery on the floor of the Atlantic may — or may not — be a treasured artifact.
Two weeks ago, while the astronauts in the International Space Station were sound asleep, Mathieu Caron was carefully putting Dextre into place from the safety of the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) control center in St. Hubert, Quebec. It was preparing for the Robotic Refueling Mission, a test to see if robots could one day refuel satellites in space.
At the press site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, one figure stood out among the crowd gathered to watch the final launch of the space shuttle Discovery last year.
Earlier, Rovio released a few hints of what to expect from Angry Birds Space. We knew that it would take place in… well, space, and that it would include some new birds and new physics. Today, the company revealed some enticing gameplay footage not from its headquarters in Finland, but from the International Space Station
In space, nobody can hear you be uncivil towards someone. That’s why it’s nice to see commander Dan Burbank and Robonaut 2 shaking hands in the middle of the International Space Station.
Scientists at the National Aeronautic and Space Administration are working on the creation of a new spacecraft that will not only be more maneuverable than previous vessels, but will also be able to fire a retrievable harpoon.
How much damage can one man cause the National Aeronautics and Space Administration? If the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism’s charges against the newly arrested Robert Butyka are to be believed, the answer to that is “somewhere over half a million dollars’ worth.”
There’s a nearly 6-ton big-as-a-bus and pretty much dead climate satellite—the largest in three decades—about to smack uncontrolled into planet Earth. There’s also a chance, albeit a ridiculously small one, that someone could get hit by one of its several dozens pieces made up of titanium, aluminum, steel and beryllium—the biggest weighs close to 300 [...]
Want to see what a major hurricane looks like chewing through a nation of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets? NASA’s TRMM satellite has the goods, displaying Hurricane Irene—white tendrils of tropical fury stretching hundreds of miles north and south of the island chain—as it whips over Crooked Island in the Bahamas.
