May 10, 2013
May 9, 2013
Interplanetary Internet (credit: NASA/JPL)
In his role as Google’s chief internet evangelist, Cerf has spent much of his time thinking about the future of the...
May 1, 2013
The XPrize Foundation has teamed up with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Overbrook Entertainment to launch a robotics competition celebrating the release of After Earth, in theaters May 31.In Phase 1 of the challenge, teams will create a 2–3 minute video essay that answers targeted questions and...
April 25, 2013
- Put a fruit fly larva in a spacelike vacuum, and within minutes, the...
Nano-suit: images of a larva protected by electron-beam-irradiated Tween 20 solution. The small white square in C is shown magnified (D), with high resolution. [Scale bars: 0.3 mm (C) and 1 μm (D)]
April 24, 2013
Phonesat (credit: NASA)
Three “PhoneSats” rode to space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.’s Antares rocket from NASA’s...
April 23, 2013
Relative sizes of all of the habitable-zone planets discovered to date alongside Earth. Left to right: Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists...
April 22, 2013
The first private Antares rocket built by Orbital Sciences Corp. launches toward space from Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia,...
A mockup created by Bigelow Aerospace shows a moon base with inflatable modules (credit: Bigelow Aerospace/NBCNews)
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April 11, 2013
International Space Station (credit: NASA)
Researchers at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Austria and the European Space Agency have proposed using the International Space...