Update: It looks like the International Space Station astronauts are safe, and that NASA’s declared the six-inch piece of space junk a non-threat, reports the Associated Press. Our original story follows:
It’s a piece of space debris from a destroyed Chinese weather satellite and it’s due to fly dangerously close to NASA’s …
Space Shuttle Endeavour’s swan song will have to wait an extra 10 days, after a scheduling conflict with a Russian spacecraft forced NASA to delay the shuttle’s final launch from April 19 to April 29.
It’s a matter of who gets to go first, or actually how many get to go at the same time: In this case, an unmanned Russian cargo ship …
I know it’s April Fools, and that claiming half the sun just disappeared sounds a little ridiculous, but we’re not kidding: Half the sun just disappeared. Really!
It happened Tuesday, during a partial eclipse (caused by us–you know, the Earth) and a NASA satellite in high orbit managed to snap it in action. That’s the shot up top, …
It’s pockmarked, looks a bit like a color-leeched bowling ball, and if you didn’t know better, you might call it “the Moon.”
But it’s only Mercury, first rock from the sun, and what you’re staring at (up top) happens to be one of the first in-orbit images of its heavily-cratered, hard-pack surface.
Thank NASA’s Messenger, a space …
It wasn’t enough to trawl the Titanic or craft the film industry’s best looking azure-blue E.T.’s, filmmaker James Cameron wanted to put a high-resolution 3D camera on NASA’s Mars rover, too.
Alas, ’tis not to be, says NASA, who admitted the zoom camera couldn’t be thoroughly tested in time for the rover’s launch later this year–a …
Next time you take a sip of coffee, consider the possibility that you could be sipping on a star.
Not just any star, and certainly not for taste or blend, but the temperature? Maybe, according to a new study that claims a star found using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and 75 light years away from us is no hotter than a sauna, cup of …
Good morning! Here are some of this morning’s interesting tech stories. More on these, and more besides, coming up later.
iPad 2 Will Keep The Top Spot
In a market analysis report that will surprise exactly no-one, some analysts from Gartner said the Apple iPad will continue to dominate the tablet computer market for some time to
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From the International Space Station to the snowy stretches of central Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts have safely returned to earth.
The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Kelly and Russians Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri touched down today (March 16), a few minutes before 0800 GMT, bringing to …
It’s hard to decipher what that bright light you saw in the sky was or, if you know when to look, where that shooting star should be located.
NASA’s All Sky Fireball Network aims to make the process of night sky gazing a lot easier. Using three video cameras located in Tullahoma, Tenn.; Chickamauga, Geor.; and Huntsville, Ala., …
Okay, so NASA hasn’t announced that it’s discovered evidence of extra-terrestrial life, as was rumored/hoped for as soon as today’s press conference was announced earlier this week. And while the discovery of an entirely new lifeform that redefines life as we know it is nothing to be sneezed at – Anything that actually deserves the …
Though none of us in this lifetime are likely to take actual tours of Mars (unless you’re part of the secret government that plans to move there when the end of the world comes—lucky jerks), Microsoft and NASA have a pretty good virtual tour going with the WorldWide Telescope software used to navigate the stars from the comfort of your …
Robots… in… spaaace! General Motors and NASA have developed Robonaut 2, affectionately called “R2” to appeal to Star Wars fans, no doubt. Unlike the little garbage can on wheels, this R2 looks like it’s ready to do some pushups, smooch your girlfriend on the cheek for just long enough that you become uncomfortable, and then arm …