Companies that specialize in science fiction and futuristic space travel will embrace the commercial space age.
Search Results
You searched for: nasa
The Earl of Oxford rears his ugly head again in a major new Hollywood film that claims Shakespeare never wrote a single word.
We’ve all been floored by the footage and information about the Mw8.9 earthquake in Japan (video) and the tsunami that followed. Some of the footage is stunning – like nothing I’ve […]
Some other bits of news from around volcano world (that doesn’t have to do with Japan). Eruptions readers have sent me a pile of leads/articles over the last week and […]
They might be best known for space travel, but the folks at NASA are determined to shape the future of commercial aviation. The agency says airliners need to be greener.
Yesterday on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (“In Race to Take Tourists Into Orbit, Partners Split, Soar”), Andy Pasztor described the innovation grudge match between two space […]
[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] nn Thisnis a picture of the Mobile Quarantine Facility built by NASA for astronauts returning fromnthe Moon. It’s basically a modified Airstreamntrailer. The idea was […]
I’ve got a new USGS/Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for a wintry January Thursday. Some highlights (with post report updates) include: Russia: The Kamchatkan volcano, Kizimen, has […]
A firestorm of speculation has been generated by a notice from NASA announcing a major discovery in the field of astrobiology, to be released today at 2 p.m. According to […]
SETI’s search for extraterrestrial life has failed for decades. A likely reason might be they are looking for aliens who look like your neighbors at twilight.
This has been one busy week, both volcanically and personally, so I’m going to try not to write another three posts today. So, instead, let’s try to summarize all the […]
It’s long been speculated that the largest moon of Saturn, Titan, has large volcanoes made of ice. In 2005, it was thought that one of these ice volcanoes had been […]
Pieces of volcano news on this snowy Ohio Monday morning (and now that the Superbowl is done, only one week until the real sports begin again): Japan: Eruptions reader and […]
My latest roundup of links and tools… When did the IT staff get promoted above the superintendent? Will Richardson notes: [A] school superintendent I spoke with … lamented the fact […]
Want to get a some more volcano news from aspiring bloggers in my First Year class? Check out their first posts on the blog for the class – we’ll be […]
Where did the week go? Some news! Webcams: Eruptions readers have been keeping an eye on a lot of volcanoes lately – and it sounds like it has paid off. […]
Private companies Virgin Galactic and SpaceX are likely to dominate headlines in the coming year, and may make 2011 the most exciting yet for private space flight.
You have two options: Stay up Late or Get up Early!It’s been over thirty months since the continental United States in it’s entirety has been able to view a total […]
On the 9th of December, Astronomers Madhusudhan, Harrington and colleagues recently discovered a massive gas giant planet, orbiting a star which they have coined the first carbon-rich world ever observed. […]
Lots of things going on the planet right now concerning volcanoes, but many don’t have a lot of information to go with the news. I’ll try to fill in as […]
Malcolm Hartley is an Australian astronomer who is best known for his discovery of 5 comets during the 1980s. He has been invited to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California […]
NASA issued a news advisory earlier this week announcing that timed with a paper embargoed for publication at the journal Science, that the agency would be holding a news conference […]
If NASA is to fly space colonization missions, it may need volunteers for one-way missions to Mars or beyond. However, the 100-year Starship project remains shrouded.
The recent shuttle launch has a strange passenger: a 330-pound humanoid robot called Robonaut 2, or R2 for short. It’s the first humanoid robot to be sent into space, and […]
The calendar has turned to February, campus is closed because we’re encased in ice and we’re all still watching Kirishima. Yesterday, the volcano produced another impressive explosion (video), one that broke […]
When I first launched my blog in March, you may remember me writing about a blog post entitled “IMAX Hubble 3D & The James Webb Space Telescope.” The new telescope […]
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of what astronomers believe may be the oldest galaxy ever seen—over 13 billion years old!
Well, things got busy enough yesterday that the post I was hoping to write just never materialized. Not only did I have the useful academic load, but I also gave […]
Could life on earth have come from outer-space? NASA finds that the universe is filled with giant carbon buckyballs that might have fallen to earth a long time ago.
The idea of a coming Singularity refers to a point in time of radical exponential progress, beyond which our minds can’t imagine—the technological counterpart to an event horizon in a black hole.