The silicon surface around it showed up as nothing but a uniform field of black Although Klingon-style disappearing spaceships may not be in our neighborhood any time soon, the techno... Read more
Scientists aim to create biofuel Tiny green algae grown in floating plastic bags may one day wean us from our voracious fossil fuel consumption. Such is the vision of Jonathan Trent,... Read more
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo. Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the Internation... Read more
A cargo carrier designed for low Earth orbit could provide a cheap route to the red planet. Dragon, the privately built space capsule intended to haul cargo and astronauts to the Inte... Read more
Real Steel or Dumb Metal? Right from the start let’s agree that the argument of humans or robots is getting close to being a dead heat in some areas. With advances in artificial... Read more
Mark Post has been given €300,000 to make a hamburger, in one year. Easy money, you might think, but try doing that without using meat that has come from an animal. Professor Post is one of... Read more
Virgin could enable up to 600 experimental payloads per flight Although Virgin Galactic is generally known as a space tourism company, it sees research experiments as a future mission segmen... Read more
Whichever plane performed best would win its makers a prize of US$1.35 million Two years ago, aircraft designers were invited to build an electric airplane that could fly at least 200 miles... Read more
The first SLS unmanned developmental flight is targeted for the end of 2017 With the curtain coming down on the Space Shuttle Program, NASA has set its sights on the future with the announce... Read more
Meredith Perry turned 22 this month. She just graduated from college and started a new company built around a technology she recently invented. There’s plenty of bad economic news thes... Read more
Despite its incredibly low density, aerogel is one of the most powerful materials on the planet. It can support thousands of times its own weight, block out intense heat, cold and sound – ye... Read more
Unmanned commercial spacecraft will soon begin making trips to the International Space Station Despite the grounding of NASA’s storied space shuttle fleet, American spaceships are expe... Read more
Google has partnered with NASA to sponsor the Green Flight Challenge that offers a prize purse of $1.65 million for the design of quiet, practical and energy-efficient aircraft. Whether you... Read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a new program in collaboration with NASA that is sure to intrigue Trekkieseverywhere. Called the 100-Year Starship Study, it’s desi... Read more
Sending Experiments into Orbit Affordably Tiny, standardized spacecraft are making orbital experiments affordable to even the smallest research groups. Developing, testing, launching and ope... Read more