***UPDATE*** NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory failed to reach orbit, the agency's Web site said. A media briefing is scheduled for 7:15 a.m., easte...
https://www.mochiads.com | Mochiads | Posted 03.07.2009 | Comedy
For fans of the bright and friendly aliens, puzzles, mahjong, logic games, and just for everybody who dislike boredom - new game Aliens Peek-a-boo. Besides that it entertains you, it helps to train attentiveness, memory and quick thinking.
Esther Dyson | Posted 02.05.2009 | Living
It's worth noting that the main studies for both the Challenger and the Columbia 17 years later focused on the NASA decision-making culture as the ultimate culprit.
Esther Dyson | Posted 02.03.2009 | Living
I can now parse routing diagrams so complex that I would never have paid attention to them in the past. Now I rely on them to set up comm links.
Peter Diamandis | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business
So long a source of national pride and inspiration as well as cutting edge research, NASA is now losing its position of world leadership.
AP | MIKE SCHNEIDER | Posted 12.28.2008 | Home
HOUSTON — With hugs and handshakes, shuttle Endeavour's seven astronauts bid farewell to the international space station crew after they ate a T...
AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex got a double dose of good news Tuesday: A rotary joint that they s...
Bob Edwards | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living
As NASA lit that candle and sent Endeavour into space, I got the rush of a lifetime! More brave human beings were putting their lives on the line so that we will all know a little more about the universe.
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 12.14.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON — Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system, images captured by two teams of astronomers. ...
Suzanne Taylor | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living
We love our science fiction, but we titter when we talk about UFOs. What never gets discussed is how valuable it would be if extraterrestrials turned out to be the real deal.
Esther Dyson | Posted 11.18.2008 | Living
So, here I am at Star City near Moscow, getting a medical check-up in order to go into training as a backup astronaut.
Times Online | Posted 11.17.2008 | Home
Outer space smells like hot metal, fried steak and the welding of a motorbike, scientists suggest. A chemist is recreating the smell to help Nasa to t...
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
How do you vote for leaders who ignored climate change, mocked any concern for the loss of habitat and biological diversity, and dismantled the wall separating church and state?
Ronald Mirman | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home
Both Barack Obama and John McCain have spoken on space policy, and both are wrong. McCain is clearly more interested (he was a pilot and Republicans t...
Adam Blickstein | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
McCain's sanguine view of space is contradicted by a reckless and misguided worldview which would put NASA in peril.
NY Times | JOHN SCHWARTZ | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
STAR CITY, Russia -- This place was once no place, a secret military base northeast of Moscow that did not show up on maps. The Soviet Union trained i...
BBC | Posted 09.27.2008 | Home
A computer virus is alive and well on the International Space Station (ISS). Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected...
Posted 08.05.2008 | Business
Scroll down for photos and video. From the AP: MOJAVE, Calif. - Virgin Galactic is giving the world a glimpse of its secret space tourism program. ...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living
If scientists believe that invisible dark matter and unobservable dark energy make up the vast majority of the universe, then why should mystical accounts of an unseeable cosmos be any more inconceivable?
Huffington Post | Posted 06.25.2008 | Home
NASA is redesigning the spacesuit for the first time since the late 1970s. The new design will replace the older, bulkier suit with a sleeker version...
Phil Plait | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living
This is what we humans can do when we try. When we persist and learn from our mistakes, we can literally touch other worlds.
Details | Posted 04.05.2008 | Business
In this month's issue of Details magazine, Richard Branson, billionaire and renegade mogul, sounds off on a number of different issues. On his early...
AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
While great nations fretted over coal, oil and global warming, one of the smallest at the U.N. climate conference was looking toward the heavens for i...
Business Week | Dianna Dilworth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
As NASA prepares to retire the space shuttle by the end of the decade, just in time for completion of the International Space Station, the tourism ind...
AP, NASA | Posted 03.27.2009 | Green