New York :: NY :: USA
| 1 day ago
NASA has successfuly conducted a first test of a deep space communications network modelled on the internet. "This is the first step in creating a totally new space communications capability, an interplanetary internet," Adrian Hooke, NASA's manager of...
Tags: internet, space, protocol, NASA, interplanetary internet
Tucson :: AZ :: USA
| 3 days ago
There is good news for scientists looking for a habitable planet to accommodate Earth's burgeoning population. According to a report in www.newscientist.com , many planets dismissed by astronomers as inhospitable may be reconsidered now as scientists...
Tags: planet, scientists, with, nasa
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA
| 3 days ago
Thursday's 10th anniversary of the world's most elaborate and expensive housing project, the international space station. On Nov. 20, 1998, the first part of the space station was launched by the Russians from Kazakhstan...Astronauts and cosmonauts moved...
Tags: space, russia, space station, shuttle, nasa, international space
New York City :: NY :: USA
| 3 days ago
This is probably the worst gaffe of its kind by any scientific organization that has been massively alarming and warning the world about the outcomes of environmental deterioration, spreading all the hue and cry on the credibility of their sacred data....
Tags: Global Warming, GISS, Climate Change, NASA, IPCC, Russia, China, UN
Pasadena :: TX :: USA
| 4 days ago
The contest began on November 18, and is open to students 5 to 18 years old who attend a U.S. school and are enrolled in the current academic year. To enter the contest, students will submit essays explaining why their suggested name for the rover should...
Tags: mars, science, mission, U.S, NASA
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA
| 5 days ago
Things didn't go quite according to plan for astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper during her spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday. First, a grease gun inside her tool bag leaked, coating everything inside with a film of lubricant.
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Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA
| 6 days ago
By MARCIA DUNN for Biodun Iginla @ BBC News in London and Minneapolis
– 30 minutes ago
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Endeavour linked with the international space station on Sunday, kicking off...
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Paris :: France
| 7 days ago
On June 30th (next year) NASA's Cassini Spacecraft is reaching the end of its four-year prime mission. Soon it will enter into its extended mission. Here is a retrospective of some of the great images sent back home by Cassini over the past four years.
Tags: cassini, NASA
Jupiter :: FL :: USA
| 8 days ago
Almost all the 30 known exoplanets that sit within the habitable zone of their stars are gas giants. "But they might have rocky, possibly Earth-like moons," said David Kipping of University College London. Kipping's calculations, which will appear in...
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Aventura :: FL :: USA
| 8 days ago
As NASA prepared to double the number of astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, nothing did more for crew bonding than a machine being launched aboard the space shuttle Endeavour.It's a water-recycling device that will process the crew's...
Tags: NASA, shuttles, water recycling