Space
World's biggest satellite blasts off into space courtesy of Ariane 5
There was a rumble in the jungle yesterday as the TerreStar-1 satellite set off on its one-way trip into...
Space station astronauts to soon enjoy a picture-window view
Installing windows in the International Space Station is tricky, especially with that complete vacuum and radiation-tinged solar wind outside, not...
'Scenes from the ISS' shows the world from an astronaut's eyes
You may have seen the shots of Russia's Sarychev volcano eruption NASA posted earlier this week. Well, the folks over...
NASA to fire a big exploding rocket at the moon
Now this sounds fun: NASA has plans to fire a rocket into the moon to create a six-mile high explosion....
Hubble-fixing tools aren't for sale at Sears just yet
Here are some tools you're not likely to find in any garages near you: the tools used by the crew...
GPS system could be failing: get a map
GPS technology has made leaps and bounds lately - from bicycle computers to the 911 system, many people are relying...
Japanese astronaut surfs on a magic carpet in space
Leave it to the Japanese to make sending an astronaut into space as fun as it always should be. Sure,...
Robotic spiders may be headed to the moon
The next visitors to the moon may not be humans. No, instead they may be these robotic spiders, designed to...
Treacherous shuttle mission already facing challenges
It looked like a picture perfect shuttle launch on Monday, unless you were looking closely. Thinking I was in the...
NASA: Sucks or Rocks?
Which is it? We love NASA, we hate NASA. It sent us to the moon; it killed 14 astronauts during...
The new Star Trek: 'Bad Astronomy' writer assesses its accuracy
If you haven't seen the new Star Trek movie, it's highly recommended — we just saw it last night and...
Satellites equipped with 'sails' could return to Earth and avoid drifting as junk
The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (or EADS) is working on attaching "sails" to satellites so that the orbiting...
Star Trek in LEGO: 15 unearthly designs
You can make almost anything out of a pile of LEGO bricks. Lucky for us, plenty of LEGO fans are...
Orion spacecraft gets dunked in the Atlantic in first sea trials
For the first time since the 1960s, NASA is testing a spacecraft in the water, seeing how seaworthy it is...
First lunar greenhouses planned for 2012
Believe it or not, but we may have our first gardens on the surface of the moon as soon as...
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