While the vast majority of mainstream press attention (and capital) focuses on the 1st through 3rdVerticals, some of the real paradigm shifting technologies and approaches may be in the 4th and 5th Verticals. […]
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One way or another: This week the agency announced an ambitious plan to locate and monitor any asteroid — even the relatively small ones — that could pose a danger to the planet.
The astronomy video blogger Tony Darnell explains why conspiracy theories about COMET ISON are nonsense, but that a meteor shower might be expected in 2014.
Reports of hearing meteors as they passed overheard were largely dismissed until about 20 years ago, when a scientist proved that very low-frequency radio waves could be picked up by certain objects, such as wire-rimmed glasses.
A new study warns that the rock that landed near Chelyabinsk in February may be part of a larger group of asteroid remnants, all with orbits that could potentially lead them to Earth.
The spacecraft currently in residence near Saturn will position itself to capture what our planet looks like from almost 900 million miles away. It’s the first-ever intentional photo session from deep space, which means we have time to dress up.
The Suomi NPP satellite has created the highest-resolution map of the world’s vegetation to date. Not surprisingly, there’s more greenery, thanks to carbon emissions.
It’s the most fantastic idea ever bandied about: that there are an infinite number of Universes identical to our own out there, and that everything that could have possibly happened […]
What does the design of a new Google campus say about the company’s future vision?
Although the agency refuses to confirm it, the CIA is helping to fund a study that will determine how and whether tinkering with the climate could impact national health, not to mention security.
A partnership between Google and NASA has resulted in the purchase of a quantum computer which both organizations expect to aid in the development of artificial intelligence, specifically machine learning.
The 23-year-old space telescope may be a few years away from retirement, but its eye is still good: The newly discovered 14th moon is only 12 miles in diameter.
You can zoom in to the image and view an area of the Red Planet’s Gale Crater in unprecedented detail.
Located 1,200 light-years from here, in the northern constellation Lyra, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered two planets whose size and orbits make them the exoplanets most similar to Earth yet.
James Webb will grant a peerless gaze at the universe the likes of which we’ve never seen.
The good news is that the asteroid, which was discovered 15 years ago, will get “no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon,” according to NASA.
In conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA and TIME, Google released millions of satellite images that cover a quarter century.
How can physicists tackle the problem of achieving faster-than-light travel?
The agency announced a competition that will award $10,000 in prizes to the person or team who can enhance the sight and dexterity of Robonaut 2, who works on the International Space Station.
According to NASA officials and other experts, meeting President Barack Obama’s directive will require clearing some significant technological hurdles.
There’s still time to sign up for the International Space Apps Challenge, in which participants will attempt to provide creative answers to 50 current scientific and technological problems.
We may soon find out: NASA just gave Systems & Materials Research Corporation a six-month, $125,000 grant to develop a working prototype of a food synthesizer.
The U.S. is in a space race with China, it just doesn’t know it yet. How many Chinese taikonauts have to return from outer space before we recognize this? Ever since […]
Asteroid 1998 QE2 will be passing Earth today at 4:59 p.m. Eastern, at a distance of 3.6 million miles, or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
Nobody said putting a man or woman on the surface of Mars was going to be easy. As NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin explains in his new book, Mission to Mars, it’s […]
Even if NASA’s Mars Curiosity mission doesn’t end up accomplishing another thing other than establishing the fact that there was once flowing water on the planet’s surface, it will have served […]
False coloring is used in this image to reveal greater detail. The image here depicts mystery martian morphology.
The picture above is a composite of 25 images recorded in extreme ultraviolet light by the Solar Dynamics Observatory over the course of the past year.
If you thought the concept of people traveling between cities – or even across the nation – in a matter of minutes was just a bit of Jetsons science fiction […]
It is “human destiny” to go to Mars, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said today at the Humans 2 Mars Summit that is taking place this week at George Washington University in Washington, DC.