Monday, February 22, 2010 - 11:59am
How do you enter your home? Through a normal door? Bo-ring! Just take a gander at this ludicrous entrance, which is made to look like you're entering a spaceship (or at least a spaceship from the set of a 70's...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 3:04pm
NASA officially kicked off the Solar Dynamics Observatory mission back on February 11th, launching the SDO spacecraft — which will be keeping a close eye on the Sun for the next five years. An Atlas V rocket took the SDO...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 5:47am
NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope, launched back in December 14th of '09, has been tasked with piecing together the grand vista of space a little bit at a time. "We've got a candy store of images coming...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 7:44am
The International Space Station just got an upgrade from the Endeavor crew: a huge new Cupola, a window pointed down at the world that offers a beautiful view of everything below. It looks like something straight out of Star Wars,...
Monday, February 15, 2010 - 4:38am
After seeing the kind of amazing space photography astronauts have been sending back lately, we were eagerly waiting for the crew of the International Space Station to lock down the $27 million domed module. Space station commander Jeffrey Williams led...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 3:32pm
Typically, we show you projects when they're all done, but — you know what? — this time we've come across one that's so awesome we want to give it a little bump. Consider this a PSA. A group of Cylon...
Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 3:13pm
Astronauts José Hernández and Soichi Noguchi really know how to make us Earth-bound folks jealous. That gorgeous shot you see up above wasn't taken from a plane — it was taken from space. Also "frooom spaaace," which you should read...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 2:39pm
The spectral collection you see above was first spied by MIT's LINEAR, and then further investigated by the Hubble telescope. What looks to an alien ship decloaking a comet trail was actually found to be a collection of debris from...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 4:32am
A new plan by NASA will see the agency consolidating its Space Network (SN), Near-Earth Network (NEN) and Deep Space Network (DSN) into one unified system as the agency goes about replacing aging communications technology, some of which has been...
Friday, January 22, 2010 - 8:47am
When you're building a car, how do you test your design before you actually build it? Well, you could spend $80 million on a gymnasium-size simulator, or, if you're Ford, you could just use state-of-the-art special-effects software to create a...
