NASA wants to find asteroids that could threaten Earth and figure out what to do about them and it wants your help doing it. The space agency today issued an asteroid-focused Grand Challenge, calling on scientists and citizen scientists ...
The Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts successfully blasted off from Kazakhstan this afternoon and is now chasing down the International Space Station. The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft lifted off at 4:31 p.m. ET and is only the second ...
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NASA scientists plan to take 3D printers into space to enable astronauts to create tools, and even food, onboard the International Space Station and later on the moon or even Mars. NASA's chief administrator Charles Bolden talked about 3D ...
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NASA's rover Curiosity has drilled into a rock on Mars for just the second time during its mission. Curiosity on Sunday used its robotic arm to drill into a rock dubbed "Cumberland" to collect a powdered sample from inside the rock that ...
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NASA's Kepler space telescope is in trouble. The telescope, launched in 2009 in search of Earth-like planets, has lost the use of one of the four wheels that control its orientation in space. Kepler, for the second time this month, has ...
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A new crew is taking over the International Space Station after two NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut successfully returned to Earth Monday night. After undocking from the space station, Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield and ...
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Most people just want their smartphones to take great pictures of their dogs or their kids' soccer games. NASA is a bit more ambitious. The space agency today released photos that three smartphones took from their orbit around Earth. ...
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Xenics nv of Leuven, Belgium - a manufacturer of infrared detectors, cameras and customized IR imaging solutions covering the spectrum from long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) to the visible (0.4–14μm) – says that on 3 May three ...
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Solar Junction of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes III-V multi-junction solar cells for concentrated photovoltaics (CPV), is in contract negotiation along with epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK for the ...
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NASA's proposed $17.7 billion budget includes plans to capture and redirect an asteroid into orbit around Earth so astronauts can study it. Ultimately, the project looks to learn more about the makeup of asteroids in an attempt to protect ...
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The launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) of its Proba-V earth observation mini-satellite in the coming weeks will represent the first time that a European-made device based on gallium nitride (GaN) will be sent into space. This follows ...
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Scientists at the University of Washington are working on a rocket that they say could enable astronauts to reach Mars in just 30 days. NASA has estimated that, using current technology, a round-trip human mission to Mars would take more ...
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The robotic arm on the International Space Station released the SpaceX Dragon early this morning, sending the capsule on its way home. The Dragon capsule, loaded with about 2,600 pounds of used hardware, completed experiments and trash, ...
The Planck space mission has given scientists new information about the age, content and origin of the universe. Planck, which lifted off in May 2009 on a mission to decipher the mysteries behind the creation of the universe, has created ...
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After a computer glitch sidelined NASA's Mars rover Curiosity late last month, another problem has it down again. NASA reported that Curiosity put itself into safe mode on Saturday after a software bug caused a command file to fail a ...
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