Building a satellite and launching it into space was once a multi-million dollar proposition. But even though miniaturization and easy-to-adapt technology formats like the CubeSat
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Perhaps the most unsettling thing about a planet-killing asteroid is that we might never see it coming. But this infographic by Mechanicsville, Md.-based designer Zachary Vabolis helpfully visualizes which candidate
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The moon's south pole could be a pleasantly moist place to put a moon base
When NASA "bombed" the moon back in October there was a lot of fanfare leading up to a visually
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Peering deep into the cosmos with its upgraded infrared camera last year, the Hubble Space Telescope was able to image a very deep region of the universe. Researchers didn't realize it at the time, but after follow-up measurements by the ESO's ground-based Very Large Telescope,
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If NASA ever gets a clear directive for interplanetary exploration, a new Hundred-Year Starship could be their version of the Mayflower. And like
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Of all of C. Montgomery Burns's nefarious dealings on The Simpsons, perhaps none sticks in the public consciousness like the time he attempted to use a massive shade to block out the sun (most notably because doing so led to his being shot by a vigilante baby
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A portable, collapsible greenhouse inspired in part by a crop-producing system at a South Pole research station could someday provide fresh vegetables and other foods in future manned lunar or Martian outposts. Working in conjunction with private industry, the University
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As evidenced by NASA's confirmation last week of an asteroid collision observed by Hubble, there are plenty of objects careening around the solar system
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The world's leading space agencies are reportedly discussing the use of the International Space Station as a launch pad for a manned trip around the moon. The goal would be to test whether
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Virgin Galactic's space plane made its first manned glide flight on 10/10/10, proving the spaceship's airworthiness and further paving the way
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NASA is preparing to send the first human-like robot to space later this year, the US agency announced last week.
Robonaut 2, constructed as a joint project between NASA and General Motors, is set to become a permanent resident of Destiny lab, part of the International Space Station. The
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The future of astronomy is an amped-up search for exoplanets and for a greater understanding of how the universe formed and evolved, according to a sweeping survey released today.
The much-anticipated Astro2010
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Researchers have confirmed six new planets beyond our solar system, the prelude to an avalanche of exoplanet discoveries soon to cascade from NASA's
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A meteor strikes, damaging solar arrays and life support systems, and as you watch the billowing dust cloud move ominously toward your lunar camp, you have to restore critical systems and oxygen flow. Starting July 6, a new NASA video game will let you save the day, in
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DARPA has a thing for butterfly tech. Last week it was sensors based on butterfly wings. This week, it's a space junk capturing vehicle armed with 200 nets that gathers
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Boeing has received the first signals from SkyTerra 1, a communications satellite it built for LightSquared that was hurled into orbit aboard a Proton rocket launched from Kazakhstan yesterday. The
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The world is ending. Not right now, mind you, but we can rest assured that it will end. Whether from massive star explosions in nearby solar systems, a collision with another body in space or the death of our own sun, life on this planet -- all life -- at one point will
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New photos from the Hubble Space Telescope show once again the value of having a decades-old orbiting observatory. After examining identical photos taken 10 years apart, scientists measured the speeds of individual stars in a distant nebula - a feat akin
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The super-accurate Earth-mapping satellite TanDEM-X has beamed back its first images, and they're detailed enough
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A laser-obsessed entrepreneur whose mosquito-zapping project demoed at the TED 2010 conference has bigger plans for energy beams. Tom Nugent envisions using lasers to deliver energy over long distances -- whether that means juicing up an aerial drone's batteries or beaming solar space power
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Ain't no tweet like an astronaut tweet
Space tweets just got real with a new NASA software
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The Kepler Space Telescope made headlines last week when it was announced that the planet-hunting
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Beware, enemies of India:
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Jellyfish Nebula holds signature of initial stellar fireballs
A new type of supernova remnant
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Nothing lasts forever -- especially when it's government-funded --
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Researchers at Harvard and the University of Queensland have come up with a novel, just-crazy-enough-to-work
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The geological time scale, with its familiar Cretaceous, Cambrian, and Eocene periods, works
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A significant breakthrough in the search for life orbiting other stars
The hunt for orbiting
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NASA says advanced instruments will allow it to definitively prove whether three Martian meteorites contain evidence of life
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After a slew of successful of space telescope repair missions and launches in
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