It’s time to get excited about NASA again! Yes, with Curiosity hopefully landing safe and sound on the surface of Mars early Monday morning, people are once again talking about space travel.
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover: The Coolest Mars Landing Ever Attempted
Touching down on another planet has never been easy, but the Curiosity rover takes it another step.
via NASA’s Curiosity Rover: The Coolest Mars Landing Ever Attempted | Science and Space | TIME.com.
Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Future of U.S. Space Exploration After Curiosity
In four days, NASA’s Curiosity rover will hopefully survive its “seven minutes of terror” and land safely on the surface of Mars. What comes next for U.S. space exploration?
Techland decided to ask famed astrophysicist Neil …
Giant 3.2 Billion-Pixel Digital Camera Gets a Step Closer to Construction
The 22.3-megapixel CMOS sensor on Canon’s new EOS 5D Mark III is no joke — except when compared to the hardware in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) camera. The 3.2 billion-pixel digital camera is meant to “capture the …
Can James Cameron — or Anyone — Really Mine Asteroids?
Time was, incredibly rich guys bought sports teams. It was fun, it was affordable (by incredibly rich guy standards, at least) and it kept them off the streets. But going to the Super Bowl isn’t enough anymore. For today’s …
Has Bezos Really Found the Apollo 11 Engines?
A discovery on the floor of the Atlantic may — or may not — be a treasured artifact.
Girl Launches Her MIT Acceptance Letter into Space
The class of 2016 was challenged to do something creative with their acceptance packages. One student decided to launch hers 91,000 feet straight up.
How Will NASA Track the Largest Satellite Crashdown in 30 Years?
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 …
WATCH: Live Streaming Video of the Lunar Eclipse
Google and Slooh have partnered up to bring everyone live coverage of today’s 100-minute long lunar eclipse. The eclipse itself is expected to start at around 2:20PM Eastern, 11:20AM Pacific. Check out the video above.
If you’re looking for a little extra interaction, you can also check out Slooh’s mission interface website “with …
Watch: NASA Captures Video of ‘Vesta’ Asteroid
This big asteroid, called Vesta, doesn’t look THAT scary. Then again, it’s 300,000 miles away from the camera. I’m sure it’d look a whole lot scarier from, say, 30,000 miles away. And 3,000 miles away? No thanks.
As a tech guy that doesn’t normally cover space stuff, though, I’d say Vista was a hell of a lot scarier than Vesta, but …
The iPhone Will Soon Launch into Outer Space
It’s where no phone has ever gone before. Next month, the iPhone – for the first time ever – will make its way into deep space.
Tentatively scheduled for July 8, NASA’s final planned space shuttle mission (insert sad face here), STS-135, plans to bring two iPhone 4s along for the ride. The space shuttle Atlantis will be making …
Tiny Stamp-Sized Satellites Carried by Endeavour into Space
Imagine peewee satellites the size of pennies tumbling through space like interstellar insects, collecting data and transmitting it home.
Stop imagining, because three stamp-sized prototypes designed by Cornell scientists went up with space shuttle Endeavour as it flew into orbit Monday morning. Their destination: the International …