Google is everywhere, snaps photo of NASA space shuttle flight [Image]
Google Street View car captures a photo of NASA space shuttle flyover on April 2012.
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Mars used to have water. It doesn’t now. New NASA satellite aims to find out why.
Science has proven that Mars once had a similar atmosphere to Earth, and that liquid water was plentiful. However, after a period of time, the red planet lost its atmosphere, and scientists are still wondering why this happened. T...
NASA is preparing to test laser-based communication system
Transferring large data from space to Earth is not as fast as we might think, that is why NASA is working on ways to allow for laser-based communication systems. These systems will link satellites in space with the base station he...
NASA to resurrect planet hunting satellite
NASA is preparing to resurrect the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Asteroid hunter satellite that has been out of commission for nearly 3 years. This move is due to new found interest in Asteroid mining, which is expect...
Watch a meteor explode in the sky during meteor shower [Video]
Incredible capture of an exploding meteor during the Perseid meteor shower. Check it out.
Students create greenhouse designed for Mars
In may of this year, NASA held its International Space Apps Challenge across several cities around the world. The event took place around the course of 48 hours in each city, but at the end of the day, only seven contenders had th...
NASA Kepler space telescope’s planet hunting days are over
A sad day for science, ladies and gentlemen, for the Kepler — a planet locating space telescope — journey has come to an end. At this point in its life, NASA is unable to restore full health to Kepler and has thus chos...
SpaceX’s latest rocket test will blow your mind, shows the future of space travel [Video]
What you are about to witness will blow your mind, please take caution, as we won’t take responsibility of your possible state of shock and surprise. If you whip out a few old movies from the 1950s, you might see all kind of crazy...
New wind-powered airplane thrusters are an alternative to petrol-powered jet engines
Have you ever thought why some great engineer guy never designed an aircraft that flew solely on air without the need for petrol? Well, it appears your thoughts might one day become a reality. You see, scientists have always wante...
Researchers develop way for two people to simultaneously control a virtual aircraft
All hail science, for in the future it might just make Pacific Rim a possibility. We might never live to see the day, but hey, at least some of us saw the movie, and that’s good enough. Here’s the thing, University of Essex workin...
NASA tried to turn Earth into Saturn using copper wires
Due to the U.S. success in successfully landing a man on the moon, some of its failed space exploits have fallen off the radar, but as usual, nothing stays hidden forever. Did you know the U.S. attempted to wrap a ring of copper w...
Curiosity Mars rover sings happy birthday on the red planet
One year ago on August 5 2012, the Curiosity Rover landed on Mars surface to begin its multi-year mission to acquire more information about the desert ridden red planet. The whole world was in on the celebration on that day as Cur...
Mindblowing video of space shuttle rocket as it falls from space back to Earth [Video]
Watch this amazing video of a rocket booster detaching from a space shuttle and falling back to Earth.
New “sky pod” system is a futuristic mass transit system which will be installed in Israel
Developed with the aid of NASA and private company SkyTran, a new “sky pod” transit system — suitably known as skyTran — is set to be constructed in Tel Aviv, Israel. It will be the first magnetically levit...
Stunning photo of Earth snapped from 900 million miles away by NASA spacecraft [Amazing Photo of the Day]
This is stunning photo was taken by NASA's Cassani spacecraft, a spacecraft that is 900 million miles away and was sent to study Saturn.