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DIY helicopters were something that shocked everyone, a couple of weeks ago when they were introduced by an entrepreneur in China. However, the scientists at The University of Surrey have another DIY in making: satellites. Strange as it may sound,...
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NASA is attempting to deploy and operate its first solar-sail powered craft NanoSail-D, made of extremely lightweight gossamer fabric designed to glide into space. It...
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Belief in aliens came to a new high when former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell claimed that aliens exist. The Apollo 14 mission veteran asserts that...
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FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist.
And he says extra-terrestrials have...
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The U.S. should revive and expand an aviation safety survey run by NASA to identify problems like lapses in inspections that canceled thousands of flights this past...
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GPS system has inspired researchers to develop a similar tracking and mapping system for astronauts on the Moon. Moon’s terrain and landscape pose a number of...
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THIRTY-NINE years to the day after Neil Armstrong radioed
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Money problems will likely force NASA to abandon its ambitious internal goal of having a new moon spaceship ready by 2013, a top space agency official told The...
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There’s a new contender for the title of the Milky Way’s brightest star.
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The No. 1 need right now for some of the builders of the nation’s next spaceship: Lots of No. 1.
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Signs of life on Mars may be hiding under its rocks, or perhaps hiding inside those rocks. A new study offers a simplified technique for detecting biological and...
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Though the moon has many seas, scientists thought it was dry.
They were wrong.
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NASA’s Space Shuttle will fly for one last time on May 31. After the Space Shuttle makes that final journey, Endeavour, Discovery and Atlantis retire four months...
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Ever heard about land vehicles that travel at a supersonic speed? Well, there have been vehicles, which actually do. Brits achieved a record speed of 763mph and the...
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NASA has tentatively set the final space shuttle mission for May 31, 2010, four months before the shuttle fleet retires.
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By the end of the year, the world’s greatest telescope should be able to see deeper into space and further back in time than ever. If all goes as planned, it will...
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Before we completely bid adieu to our nation’s birthday, we here at Gizmodo would like to give one more shout-out to the fourth of July. Seems like even the stars...
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Most media attention may be on Mars these days, but luckily for us (and the species as a whole) NASA is smarter than the average news network, and can actually look at...
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After spending years terrorizing and baffling people, making some look crazy to everyone, and generating immense buzz, scientists are now satisfied with their mischief...
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The Messenger space probe, which began its 5 billion mile journey to Mercury four years ago, has provided new evidence that the closest planet to the sun is contracting...
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When viewed from the rest of the galaxy, the edge of our solar system appears slightly dented as if a giant hand is pushing one edge of it inward, far-traveling NASA...
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The Pentagon will buy and operate one or two commercial imagery satellites and plans to design and build another with more sophisticated spying capabilities, according...
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MSNBC’s Alex Witt talked to Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff about a new proposal by the Bush administration to use satellites for domestic surveillance.
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A satellite will be launched next month from the Vandenburg AFB, which is deemed to be one of the best to capture images from space. GeoEye 1 is capable of 16-inch...
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One of the basic problems that stop the complete and competent use of solar energy is the simple fact that most often we just do not have enough sun hitting the panels...
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Scientists have used data from instruments in a constellation of NASA satellites to see deep inside clouds, which would help to shed new light on the link between...
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The Indian Space Research Organisation will launch ten satellites, including eight from abroad, which will be carried by PSLV-C9, on April 28 from Sriharikota.
The...
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I just cannot hold back the feeling of absolute disgust on this one and it is because I honestly feel so. I just knew this was coming our way and irrespective of how...
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A plan to use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law-enforcement missions is moving forward after being delayed for months because of privacy and civil...
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The U.S. is pursuing a multibillion-dollar program to develop the next generation of spy satellites, the first major effort of its kind since the Pentagon canceled the...
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A program to employ spy satellites for certain domestic uses is on hold indefinitely because of privacy concerns.
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While the government’s bloody crackdown on street demonstrations in Myanmar has drawn the world’s attention, newly released satellite photos provide...
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India has decided to double the annual satellite launches up to 25 spacecraft in the coming five years. It will be a boosting exercise of a $2 billion that would be...
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India is set to make important contributions to the future of space exploration with highly ambitious missions to the Moon and Mars in coming future. Indian Presedent...
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We have already heard a lot about the driverless cabs, but in books and science fictions only. The recent news of driverless cabs at the London’s Heathrow Airport was a...
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Researchers at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II) have announced that they have discovered seven or perhaps eight dwarf galaxies that are orbiting the Milky Way...
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There’s something revitalizing about the start of another year. Sure, we all become a year older but that’s something we all would like to celebrate. However, the...
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Often solar activity goes unnoticed on Earth, but this one will surely grab every ones attention. The Sun is just past its low-point in an 11-year cycle of activity....
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After years of debate on how to dispose of rubbish from the international space station (ISS), NASA has come up with the funny answer in fact - open the back door and...
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Orbital waste or the space junk is of great concern to the scientists as debris or waste at the orbital velocity can be more damaging to the functional satellites and...
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In this June 27, 2006, file photo a Boeing’s Delta 4 rocket, carrying a a spy satellite skyward on a classified mission, is launched into space at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Military and industry officials say that in the first week of July...
