Video: Jumping rolling robot avoids all obstacles
This video features a robotic concept that could be used for future space exploration. The design of the robot enables it to go through obstacles. Category: TechnologyYear: GeneralTags: robot, space,...
View ArticleFuture of Space Elevator Looks Shaky
In a report on NewScientist.com, researchers working on development of a space elevator (an idea we have discussed numerous times) have determined that the concept is not stable. Category: SpaceYear:...
View ArticleAliens Can Now Watch The Day the Earth Stood Still!
In an interesting move, Twentieth Century Fox is making history by transmitting the first motion picture in to deep space, making THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL the world’s first galactic motion picture...
View ArticleDark Energy's Effects Seen Clearly for the First Time
The astronomers spotted the effects using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and they put together a theory of what dark energy could be and what’s the destiny of the Universe. This is a result of years...
View ArticlePS3s help astrophysicists solve mystery of black hole vibrations
Scientists from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth were researching vibrating black holes using 16 Sony PlayStation3s. The console cluster is used...
View ArticleSpace Program Reinvigorated with Expansive Space-based Solar Energy Policy
By Adam Custinger Many people will say that pursuing a space-based solar power energy campaign is too ambitious, that there are more immediate solutions to get us through our economic/energy crisis...
View ArticleSci-Fi-Inspired Concept Ships Show Future of Travel
These brief glimpses into the possible future of travel were left largely to the readers' imaginations, but a flourishing group of dreamers, designers and illustrators are bringing those creations to...
View ArticleOur world may be a giant hologram
Fermilab scientists have found anomalous "holographic noise" in their GEO600 gravitational-wave detector that suggests the possibility that we live in a hologram.Category: SpaceYear: GeneralTags:...
View ArticleChina plans own satellite navigation system by 2015
China plans to complete its own satellite navigation system by 2015, making it independent of foreign technology such as the US-developed Global Positioning System (GPS), state media said...
View ArticleTop 5 Most Extreme Exoplanets
The process of elimination is (or ought to be) in effect, because the only and inevitable long, long term solution for humanity is extra-solar colonization.Category: SpaceYear: BeyondTags: extrasolar,...
View ArticleLong, Stretchy Carbon Nanotubes Could Make Space Elevators Possible
"The biggest problem has always been finding a material that is strong enough and lightweight enough to stretch tens of thousands of miles into space," said Winter. "This isn't going to happen probably...
View ArticleSolar Physics Spacecraft Launched by Russia
The Coronas Photon spacecraft will spend the next three years circling Earth with a suite of instruments designed to measure energetic particles produced by solar flares, the solar atmosphere, and...
View ArticleNASA, Cisco Partnering for Climate Change Monitoring Platform
NASA and Cisco Inc. announced Tuesday a partnership to develop an online collaborative global monitoring platform called the "Planetary Skin" to capture, collect, analyze and report data on...
View Article20 Things You Didn't Know About Time
Items 1 and 20 serve as interesting counterpoints. It would be difficult to reconcile them. I mean, if time is an illusion, then what is it exactly that is on the verge of ending? The illusion? Or is...
View ArticleProbe launches to map Earth's gravity in best detail yet
A sleek satellite that is set to make the most detailed map of the Earth's gravity took to the skies on Tuesday. The probe is expected to make important contributions to ocean current measurements and...
View ArticleAstrophysicist Believes We'll Locate "Hundreds of Earth-Like Planets" by 2013
Astrophysicist Alan Boss believes Nasa's Kepler Mission will turn up "hundreds of Earth-like planets", many of which will probably be "inhabited with something." Considered a leader in the search for...
View ArticleWhy ET's genetic code could be just like ours
Do you remember being very dubious of all those aliens and humans mating and having children on Star Trek? Now wait a minute, didn't you say? How could beings from totally different planets with...
View ArticleWho Will Win The New Space Race? Microsoft or Google?
Are Microsoft and Google in a space race? We think they are. Their rivalry is also, we believe, a precursor to the next great post-Internet technology boom: space exploration and development.Category:...
View ArticleGreenhouse Designed to Grow Veggies on Moon
Astronauts' meals have come a long way from the freeze-dried powders and semi-liquid pastes of decades ago: now U.S. scientists want to grow vegetables in mini-greenhouses on the moon.Category:...
View ArticleDiamandis: Countries & Companies Will Race to Moon Water Region
X-Prize Foundation CEO Peter Diamandis predicts the human reaction to the knowledge that there's water on the moon.Category: SpaceYear: GeneralTags: diamandis, lunar, moon, water, space
View Article
