Passing Into the Energy Cloud
Our space neighborhood is changing, and not for the better. We need to take precautions to defend our home planet, our way of life, starting right now.
Our space neighborhood is changing, and not for the better. We need to take precautions to defend our home planet, our way of life, starting right now.
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 12.28.2009 | Living
The times may be very different from 1961, but the need to have a transformational possibility issued by a transcendent leader is even greater than it was then.
Posted 12.28.2009 | Technology
Since its launch 10 years ago, in 1999, the Landsat 7 satellite has been orbiting the Earth under the command of NASA and the USGS, compiling incredib...
Anthea Raymond | Posted 12.15.2009 | Los Angeles
Does LA's creative community really need another awards show? The surprising answer, based on what I saw at the inaugural Los Angeles Real Creativity awards, is a resounding "yes."
AP | Posted 12.14.2009 | Technology
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A NASA spacecraft blasted into space early Monday on a mission to map the whole sky in search of hidden asteroid...
AP | Posted 12.14.2009 | Technology
UPDATE 12/14/09: The Associated Press reports: VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A NASA spacecraft blasted into space early Monday on a mission to ...
Posted 12.10.2009 | Technology
Good news for anybody waiting to purchase a helicopter until they improve crash test ratings. A deployable energy absorber (think "honeycomb airbag")...
Posted 12.09.2009 | Technology
NASA recently released a colorized photograph of the moon, assembled from 18 images taken through a green filter by the Galileo spacecraft. The sola...
Jeff Goldstein | Posted 12.08.2009 | Technology
Is this the grand vision for human spaceflight we embraced 40 years ago when we saw Armstrong and Aldrin walking on the Moon?
Randall Amster | Posted 11.30.2009 | Technology
We ought to consider how NASA's discovery of water on the moon could alter the fabric of life on earth. The implications of this find -- including the possible near-term development of a viable lunar colony -- are staggering.
Eric Shutt | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media
Motion Graphics Festival (MGFest) has been touring the U.S. for nearly 5 years, but you may not have heard of it until now.
AP | DAISY NGUYEN | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business
DOWNEY, Calif. — This city that once helped send men rocketing into the space now wants to help earth-bound motorists to become more fuel efficient....
LiveScience | Posted 11.25.2009 | Technology
Incredibly powerful waves of plasma rippling across the surface of the sun and dubbed "solar tsunamis" were first observed years ago, but were thought...
Buzz Aldrin | Posted 11.25.2009 | Technology
Two Shuttle accidents -- each caused by NASA hubris -- combined with a tight budget have caused NASA to retire the fleet. Understandable, but in a move that truly makes no sense, they will be replaced by...the space capsules we long ago outgrew.
Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 11.23.2009 | Technology
The 1835 series in the New York Sun , now known as the Great Moon Hoax, used the first three articles to describe the sights of water, vegetation, bison, goats, cranes and pelicans on the moon.
techland.com | Posted 11.20.2009 | Technology
So in a bid to convince kids that science is cool, that the space program has a multitude of practical applications right here on Earth, and that appa...
McClatchy | Robert S. Boyd | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 11.19.2009 | Technology
America's once clear dominance in space is eroding as other nations, including China, Iran and North Korea, step up their activities, a panel of exper...
Jeff Goldstein | Posted 11.19.2009 | Technology
After Atlantis returns to Earth, a space shuttle will clear the tower only five more times before the fleet -- Discovery, Endeavour and Atlantis -- is retired in 2010.
GlobalPost | Alex Leff | Posted 11.19.2009 | Technology
LIBERIA, Costa Rica -- Franklin Chang Diaz has great aspirations for his rocket: a mail-carrier for outer space, a garbage truck for orbital debris an...
AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 11.16.2009 | Technology
**Scroll down for photos, video** CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Atlantis rocketed into orbit Monday with six astronauts and a full load of...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.14.2009 | Comedy
Hours after scientists confirmed finding evidence of water on the moon, the United States and China each announced ambitious plans to become the first nation to pollute the moon's water.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.13.2009 | Chicago
The nation's space program is calling on a Chicago surgeon to fix faulty robotic arms on the international space station, Monifa Thomas of the Chicago...
Lawrence E. Joseph | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books
As author of "Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilization's End" (Broadway/Random House, 2007) I am frequently asked what I thought of "2012," the Columbia Pictures film directed by Roland Emmerich.
Posted 11.15.2009 | Technology
*See video below* Last Wednesday, Germany's Max Plank Institute for Solar System Research released amazing, detailed video footage of the sun's surfa...
Posted 11.13.2009 | Technology
NASA announced that a "significant" amount of water has been found on the moon, following the LCROSS mission to "bomb" the moon earlier this year. ...
Lawrence E. Joseph | Posted 12.29.2009 | Living