| Man City striker Tevez dating 'Ugly Duckling' Ace striker Carlos Tevez is dating one of the stars of Ugly Betty's Argentinean... | |
| Massive asteroid could hit Earth in 2182 A massive asteroid might crash into Earth in 2182, scientists have... |
| Cassini Helps With Dune Whodunit Cassini radar sees sand dunes on Saturn's giant moon Titan (upper photo) that are sculpted like Namibian sand dunes on Earth (lower photo). The bright features in the upper radar photo are not clouds... |
| Greening The Moon And Mars Future manned missions to the Moon or Mars could use plants as bio-harvesters to extract valuable elements from the alien soils, researchers say. Now they hope to launch new experiments to follow up... |
| Brown Dwarf Found Orbiting A Young Sun-Like Star The range of sizes of a brown dwarf compared to Jupiter and the Sun and the Earth (to scale). Brown Dwarfs are more massive than planets but less massive than stars. But they have similar diameters... |
| 'Welfare robots' to ease burden in greying Japan Robotic wheelchairs, mechanical arms and humanoid waiters are among the cutting-edge inventions on show at a robotics fair in Japan, a country whose population is ageing rapidly. To ease the burden... |
| Wyle Scientist To Study Stress In Haughton-Mars Project Spaceflight Analog A remote Canadian island is being used to simulate isolated space flight conditions for a NASA-funded medical research study that could produce important information to assist astronauts in potential... |
| Japan experts call for robot expedition to moon An expert panel advising the Japanese government called in a report approved on Thursday for the nation to send a wheeled robot to the moon in five years and to build the first lunar base by 2020. ... |
| Rocks On Mars May Provide Link To Evidence Of Living Organisms Roughly 4 Billion Years Ago A new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The... |
| Martian Dust Devil Whirls Into Opportunity's View This is the first dust devil that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has observed in the rover's six-and-a-half years on Mars. The whirlwind appeared in a routine drive-direction image taken... |
| ViewRanger GPS Outdoor Navigation Tool Now Available GPS ViewRanger is the perfect companion for outdoor enthusiasts including campers and hikers, as well as field-based applications such as search-and-rescue. National Geographic recently selected... |
| INRIX Expands The Largest Traffic Network In Europe INRIX has announced it has expanded its European real-time traffic coverage to 18 countries making it the largest traffic network in Europe. With the launch of real-time traffic information in... |
| Planetary Society Urges Debate On NASA Authorization Bill The Planetary Society has issued a statement about the request that the U.S. House of Representatives suspend the rules when voting on the NASA Authorization bill: The U.S. House of Representatives... |
| Navigation That Makes Sense Of Life's Twists And Turns Garmin-Asus and Optus have announced a smartphone designed for those looking for a true 'all-in-one' navigation experience to help make sense of life's twists and turns. The Garmin-Asus A50,... |
| Broadway sings blues over synthesizer invasion While audiences at Broadway's "West Side Story" thrill to the on-stage drama, musicians in the orchestra pit are fighting a battle every bit as vicious as the Sharks-Jets rivalry. This is gang... |
| Dune 'Whodunit' on Saturn's Moon Titan The answer to the mystery of dune patterns on Saturn's moon Titan did turn out to be blowing in the wind. It just wasn't from the direction many scientists... |
| Cosmic Log: Showdown over space policy Quantum fluctuations in space, science and exploration, from the Large Hadron Collider to Hubble, Mars and beyond. Served up by Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science... |
| What's that weird thing around Saturn's second-largest moon? In 2008, researchers detected a sharp, symmetrical drop in electrons around Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon. This could be caused by a ring of debris, but the Cassini spacecraft, which has flown... |
| Tech universe: Thursday 29 July /technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10661756" onclick="s_objectID='articlerelatedarticles';" class="imageLink"> /technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10661756"... |
| Google Earth Starts To Depict Rain, Snow Buzz This Google Earth is meant to give its users a realistic view of the world, and the program by and large accomplishes that. A new upgrade will make it even more accurate, though, by showing... |
| Ring Around Rhea? Probably Not Rhea, taken by the Cassini spacecraft in March, 2010. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Back in 2005, a suite of six instruments on the Cassini spacecraft detected what was thought to be an... |
| Antarctic Observatory Finds Weird Pattern of Cosmic Rays This "skymap," generated in 2009 from data collected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, shows the relative intensity of cosmic rays directed toward the Earth’s Southern Hemisphere.... |
| Opportunity Rover Captures Her First Dust Devil on Mars This is the first dust devil that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has observed in the rover's six-and-a-half years on Mars. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University/Texas A&M... |
| Extreme Close-Up of the Face on Mars The 'face' on Mars, a popular landform in Cydonia Region on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Here's a picture you probably won't see in the tabloid racks while waiting in line... |
| New Geek Destination: Klingon Cave Tours Star Trek: The Experience" is no longer open, here's the next best thing. A company is getting ready to provide self-guided tours of the Jenolan Caves west of Sydney, Australia, and one of... |
| Where In The Universe Challenge #113 what it is. Post your guesses in the comments section, and check back on later at this same post to find the answer. To make this challenge fun for everyone, please don’t include links or extensive... |
| This Week in Space — Apollo-Soyuz Anniversary Edition Space " with Miles O'Brien, but it is a special edition that takes a look at the 35th anniversary of Apollo-Soyuz project with exclusive interviews, and more. There's also a look at... |
| Stunning New Image of Wolf-Rayet Star and the Carina Nebula Wolf–Rayet stars are named after the two French astronomers who first identified them in the mid-nineteenth century, and WR 22 is one of the most massive ones we know of. It is a member of a double... |
| Tools Get Loose During ISS Spacewalk Space Station earlier today, outfitting the newest module for future dockings of Russian vehicles. Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko set up the Kurs automated rendezvous on the... |
| Carnival of Space #164 carnivalofspace@gmail.com , and the next host will link to it. It will help get awareness out there about your writing, help you meet others in the space community – and community is what blogging... |
| Panel OKs report seeking lunar exploration using robots+ TOKYO, July 29 (AP) - (Kyodo)An advisory panel on Thursday adopted a report that urges the Japanese government to implement a 200 billion yen moon exploration program using robots, including... |
| Tech universe: Friday, 30 July /technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10661756" onclick="s_objectID='articlerelatedarticles';" class="imageLink"> /technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10661756"... |
| Mars Rover Opportunity Finally Sees Martian Dust Devil After more than six years roaming the surface of Mars, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has spotted its first dust devil on the red planet. Unlike its robotic twin on Mars Spirit – a prolific... |
| Chinese space junk to buzz past space station An image created by Australia's Electro Optic Systems (EOS) aerospace company shows a view of the Earth from geostationary height depicting swarms of space debris -- approximately 50,000 of the... |
| Molycorp Plunges 14% on First Day After Chopping Rare-Earth IPO July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Molycorp Inc., owner of the world’s largest non-Chinese deposit of rare-earth metals, declined in its first day of trading after chopping the size of its initial public... |
| Chinese Space Junk May Threaten Space Station Crew NASA is tracking a piece of Chinese space junk that is headed uncomfortably close to the International Space Station and may force the outpost's crew to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats... |
| Giant Sand Dunes on Titan Shaped by Backward Winds Scientists have used data from the Cassini radar mapper to map the global wind pattern on Saturn's moon Titan using data collected over a four-year period, as depicted in this image. Credit:... |
| Chinese Space Junk Won't Endanger Space Station Crew A piece of Chinese space junk expected to zoom by the International Space Station Thursday will pass harmlessly by, NASA officials said after scrambling to determine whether the six people aboard... |
| Pinning Atoms Into Order In an international first, physicists of the University of Innsbruck, Austria have experimentally observed a quantum phenomenon, where an arbitrarily weak perturbation causes atoms to build an... |
| Cosmic Log: $1.4 million for oil cleanup ideas Mario Tama / Getty Images fileWorkers use absorbent boom to clean oil from a marsh on July 15 near Cocodrie, La. Oil cleanup technologies have lagged behind oil exploration technologies, but the $1.4... |
| Government of Canada Celebrates Food Day and the Best Food on Earth - Food Day, July 31, 2010 is a perfect opportunity to recognize Canadian farmers' hard work and dedication to producing the best food in the world. This Saturday marks the 8th annual national... |
| Harris Corp. lands NASA program contract The team is working under a five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling value of $70 million. CRAVE contracts cover a wide range of tasks for human spaceflight programs... |
| New Report Urges U.S. Space Launch Policy Overhaul PARIS — The U.S. government should permit China to launch U.S.-built commercial satellites and force an overhaul of the U.S. Air Force's relationship with its principal launch-services ... |
| Satellite quantum-communication circles closer distance record for quantum encrypted communications between two sites on Earth is 144 kilometres. If quantum encryption is to go global the data must be sent via satellite links, and here the... |
| NASA/NIA 'Aviation Unleashed' to Imagine Future of Aviation /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- About 50 years ago TV animators created a vision of life almost 50 years from now. They predicted in 2062 people would be flying to work and using robots for housework. How... |
| Troy Aikman says he's doing 'Dancing With The Stars' Hot news! Troy Aikman is doing Dancing With The Stars. "I am, yeah," he told TMZ last night when the site's videographers caught up with him on the street leaving an L.A. restaurant and asked him... |
| Galaxy S, 3D TV tell Samsung's big plan Jeffrey Katzenberg, right, CEO of DreamWorks, checks out Samsung Electronics’ 3D LED-backlit LCD televisions with other unnamed executives on the sidelines of his participation earlier this year at... |
