| Soon, hi-speed running robots to navigate 'inaccessible' terrains A large fraction of the Earth's surface remains inaccessible to conventional wheeled or tracked vehicles, while animals and humans traverse such terrain with ease and elegance, researchers say.... | |
| Russia eyes mission to reach moon this decade Russian scientists are looking forward to have a man on the moon by 2020, as it launches a new campaign to select a new team of cosmonauts to train for the special task, according to reports.
The... |
| More people now want to be astronauts: NASA NASA has received 6,372 applications for its 2013 class of astronauts, double the usual number, the US space agency said.
Only in 1978, when applications surged to more than 8,000, have more people... |
| NASA Recruiting: Over 6,000 People want to be Astronauts NASA is currently recruiting to train astronauts for its 2013 batch. Incidentally, this number (6,372 to be exact) is the largest since 1978, when they received more than 8,000 eager... |
| Over 6,000 Individuals Apply for NASA’s Astronaut Corps Over 6,000 individuals have applied for joining NASA’s astronaut corps, which is twice as many as the U.S. space agency typically receives, NASA said in a statement on Sunday. Late last year,... |
| Altai Republic marks Chaga Bairam – New Year according to lunar calendar GORNO-ALTAISK, February 5 (Itar-Tass) - The capital of the Altai Republic marks this Sunday the New Year according to the oriental lunar... |
| Seagrass is the Oldest Life Form on Earth: Study Australia have discovered that seagrass is the oldest living thing on the Earth. The scientists analysed 40 meadows across 3,500 kilometres of the Mediterranean Sea. They discovered that seagrass... |
| The man who fell to earth: jumper plans skydive from edge of space IT is the ultimate parachute jump: from the edge of space, Felix Baumgartner will leap from a balloon and plummet 120,000ft.After 35 seconds he will break the sound barrier, and finally, at 5,000ft,... |
| Over 6,300 People Have Applied To Be Astronauts At some point, I think most little kids think to themselves, ';When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut!'; And it looks like quite a few people never lost that dream. NASA has announced... |
| The Milky Way’s Magnetic Personality The sky map of the Faraday effect caused by the magnetic fields of the Milky Way. Red and blue colors indicate regions of the sky where the magnetic field points toward and away from the observer,... |
| Journal Club – Neutrino Vision Today's article is about neutrino astronomy... on ice. According to Wikipedia, a journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in the... |
| 'Universe from Nothing': Big Bang was a bargain But something from nothing, physicists are finding, may be the ultimate secret of the universe. "The surprising fact is that we live in a universe that has all the characteristics of being created... |
| Over 6,300 Respond to NASA's Request for Astronaut Applicants NASA's space shuttle program is over. NASA does not have its own means of taking astronauts into space. Commercial spacecraft under development won't be ready for another four to five... |
| Dr Gerry Mander: the therapist the stars trust Dear Dr ManderI am one of the leading professionals in my field. Unfortunately however I have recently benn subject to allegations about my behaviour from an embittered third party and have been... |
| Space Rock of Love: Asteroid Eros Attracts Skywatchers in Earth Flyby This picture of Eros, the first of an asteroid taken from an orbiting spacecraft, is a mosaic of four images obtained by NEAR on February 14, 2000, immediately after the spacecraft's insertion... |
| SpaceX launch will be a key test for NASA Lawmakers, administration officials and other policy makers with a role in deciding NASA spending will be watching as well. The launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from Cape... |
| Google Wallet On Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S , According to Reports Several reports have come out indicating that AT&T has quietly begun allowing users of the Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S NFC-enabled smartphones to download Google Wallet. ... |
| Recycling Pulsars – The Millisecond Matters… An artist's impression of an accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar. The flowing material from the companion star forms a disk around the neutron star which is truncated at the edge of the pulsar... |
| Astronomers discover potentially habitable super-Earth February 4, 2012 Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth planet orbiting a nearby star, making it one of the best candidates to support life. The newly found planet, called... |
| Dark Side of the Moon – Illuminated Nasa has released the first ever moving images of the dark side of the Moon, the side never visible from Earth, filmed by the spacecraft GRAIL. . Report... |
| Russia Aims to Send Cosmonauts to the Moon? Russia 's space agency and training center for cosmonauts is launching a campaign to choose a new team of cosmonauts to train for a special mission, most likely for the moon this... |
| New Study Shows How Trace Elements Affect Stars’ Habitable Zones Comparison of the habitable zone around the Sun in our solar system and around the star Gliese 581. Credit: ESO Habitable zones are the regions around stars, including our own Sun, where conditions... |
| Beautiful Conjunction: Comet Garradd Meets M92 This lovely image of Comet Garradd (C/2009 PI) as it passes by the globular cluster M92 in the constellation Hercules, was taken remotely from the Tzek Maun Observatory in New Mexico by our... |
| Community Corner: Lunar New Year, summer-camp fair Community events for the weekend of Saturday, Feb. 4, and Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, include a Lunar New Year Celebration at Seattle Central Library and the Seattle/Eastside CampFair for summer-camp... |
| Yakutsk: Journey to the coldest city on earth Think our winter's been a bit grim? Try visiting Yakutsk - the Russian city where 'a bit nippy' means minus 50C, and a quick dash to the corner shop could end in frostbite. Shaun... |
| Russia's Mars probe crashes into Pacific /enpproperty--> MOSCOW - Russia's failed Mars probe Phobos-Grunt has fallen into the Pacific Ocean, local media reported on Sunday. The crash site of the spacecraft debris was 1,250... |
| Google Earth Ocean Terrain Receives Major Update Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, NOAA... |
| Jupiter-Bound NASA Probe Adjusts Course Toward Giant Planet A NASA probe on a five-year mission to Jupiter fired up its rocket thrusters this week to better aim itself at the largest planet in our solar system. ... |
| NASA video shows dark side of the moon NASA has released a rare video of the far side of the moon, captured by one of the two GRAIL probes that are orbiting the moon to map its gravitational field. The US space agency... |
| China market: Sales of household appliances lower than expected during Lunar New Year holidays Sales of large-size electrical household appliances including LCD TVs in the China market were lower than expected during the Lunar New Year holidays, according to data compiled by retail channels in... |
| Rare video of hidden side of the Moon released reported on Thursday. One whole face of the Moon can never be seen from Earth because it constantly faces away from our planet. But now one of the twin GRAIL spacecraft launched... |
| NASA workers in Ohio win $250,000 lottery A group of 16 NASA employees in Ohio are the winners of a quarter-million dollars in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing. The Ohio Lottery said Friday the group from the NASA Glenn Research Center... |
| Scientists get first up-close images of Saturn storm NASA scientists have got the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL) announced on Wednesday.The images were... |
| China's Lunar Exploration Program China had collected all the data needed to draw its first full map of the moon surface and was almost done with the mapping work, Sun Jiadong, the chief designer of the country's Chang'e -1... |
| NASA IBEX Finds Mismatch Between Solar System, Galactic Space The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from NASA's Great Observatories - the Chandra X-ray Observatory [blue], the Hubble Space... |
| Aspiring astronauts double: NASA Final decisions for NASA's astronaut program are expected by the spring of 2013. NASA has received 6372 applications for its 2013 class of astronauts, double the usual number, the US space... |
| Small moves add up in commercial space additional breathing space , thanks to legislation that was approved by the House on Friday and seems certain to become law.The provision takes up just a few words in... |
| Check out the Red Planet's craziest colors This false-color view of Toro Crater on Mars was captured on Dec. 1, 2011, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and released on Wednesday. The... |
| Asteroid Eros draws skywatchers in Earth flyby This picture of Eros, the first of an asteroid taken from an orbiting spacecraft, is a mosaic of four images obtained by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft in 2000 on Valentine's Day, immediately... |
| ‘The Great Dying’ Occurred in Phases, Killed 90 Percent of Earth's Species The biggest mass extinction that killed 90 percent of the Earth's marine life occurred in phases and took hundreds of thousands of years to complete, experts have said. According to a study... |
| Super Earth That Could Support Life Found Scientists have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth along with three other planets orbiting a nearby star and it is just 22 light years away from Earth. Super-Earth takes about 28 days to... |
| Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Motorola Xoom Lose Google Support: Doomsday for Verizon CDMA Phones? Android developer Web site as the company has removed nearly all reference to CDMA phones and tablets from its official documents and Google's developer site,... |
| Drought-Hit Mars May be Dead [PHOTOS] Previous researches have indicated that, Mars might have experienced warmer as well as wetter periods more than three billion years ago. The scientists also believe that Mars was exposed to liquid... |
| Texas governor, senator greet Chinese lunar new year Texas Governor Rick Perry and Senator Rodney Ellis on Friday sent congratulatory letters to the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, greeting the Chinese lunar new year and expressing hopes for good... |
| Premier: no discriminatory rare earth supply policies in place China's premier said Friday that the country does not discriminate against foreign companies in terms of rare earth supplies, stating that policies and quotas for both domestic and foreign... |
