Nasa scientists are presenting the White House with a plan to capture an asteroid and steer it to a new position where it will act as a stepping stone to Mars. Original post on dailymail.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
A NASA-funded researcher at the University of Iowa has figured out how to find X-points, places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun. Original post on nasa.gov Comments on reddit.com
NASA has just announced that MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, has confirmed the presence of ice covered by an unknown organic material inside craters near the planet’s north pole – two major building blocks for life! One current theory is that the ice and organic material could have… Original post on discovery.com Comments on reddit.com
NASA is asking scientists for ideas about how best to use two huge space telescopes it received from the United States’ spy satellite agency earlier this year. Original post on space.com Comments on reddit.com
A few months ago, physicist Harold White stunned the aeronautics world when he announced that he and his team at NASA had begun work on the development of a faster-than-light warp drive. His proposed design, an ingenious re-imagining of an Alcubierre Drive, may eventually result in an engine that can transport a spacecraft to the nearest star in a matter of weeks — and all without violating Einstein’s law of relativity. We contacted White at NASA and asked him to explain how this real life warp drive could actually work. Original post on io9.com Comments on reddit.com
NASA engineers are using a 3D laser printing system call “selective laser melting “ (SLM) to produce intricate metal parts such as rocket engine compon… Original post on gizmag.com Comments on reddit.com
NASA and the European Space Agency have controlled a LEGO robot on Earth from the International Space Station using an experimental “interplanetary internet” system. The Disruption Tolerant… Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
After years of debate, a mystery with implications for life gets the ‘sniff’ test. Original post on nature.com Comments on reddit.com
Romney in the first debate with Obama and the GOP for years have called for PBS to be defunded for many reasons but they hate it’s left wing educational content and the fact its financed by the tax payer (so… Original post on littlegreenfootballs.com Comments on reddit.com
NASA’s Swift satellite has found evidence of the presence of a previously unknown stellar-mass black hole in our Milky Way galaxy. Named Swift J1745-26 after the coordinates of its sky position, the nova is located a few degrees from the centre of our galaxy towards the constellation Sagittarius, NASA said. Original post on ndtv.com Comments on reddit.com
Chandra finds evidence that the Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years. Original post on nasa.gov Comments on reddit.com
The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that NASA wants to build a space station about 277,000 miles from Earth, placing it well beyond the orbit of the Moon. Called the Original post on io9.com Comments on reddit.com
(Getty Images) ORLANDO, Fla. — It’s a topic Paul Ryan hasn’t discussed before on the campaign trail, but at an event today Paul Ryan unleashed on President Obama on the issue of space exploration, saying he has Original post on abcnews.go.com Comments on reddit.com
POLSON – NASA is changing the way it does business, and a Polson firm will help it make the transition. Original post on ravallirepublic.com Comments on reddit.com
From Yahoo! News: PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s celebrity flight director, Bobak Ferdowsi, would represent a rare breed even without the patriotic mohawk hairstyle that earned him fame as Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
A budget forecast that was released on Friday shows that the defense department isn’t the only department getting hammered, NASA is as well if the Original post on spaceindustrynews.com Comments on reddit.com
NASA-funded astronomers have, for the first time, spotted planets orbiting sun-like stars in a crowded cluster of stars. Original post on nasa.gov Comments on reddit.com
Sept. 14, 2012 – NASA’s long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers. Spherical objects Original post on spaceindustrynews.com Comments on reddit.com
Scientists believe Mars rover may carry microbes from Earth that could potentially survive in Martian water Original post on cbsnews.com Comments on reddit.com
On Wired, Geeta Dayal looks at the state of automated copyright enforcement video-bots, the mindless systems that shut down the Hugo awards livestream, took down NASA’s own footage of the Curiosity landing, and interrupted the video from the DNC. Dayal examines the legal status and necessity for these bots (dubious); their ability to model copyright’s [...] Original post on boingboing.net Comments on reddit.com
Astronauts aboard the ISS find a low-tech way to solve a high-tech problem. Original post on theatlantic.com Comments on reddit.com
Improvements have been made to a material known as aerogel that could lead to the material being used for highly insulated clothing that would be lighter than ever. Original post on ksl.com Comments on reddit.com
