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NASA site helps answer the question, when will the ISS be overhead, with...
NASA has had a crazy, busy year – apart from landing a massive rover on Mars, and transporting the retired space shuttle Endeavour through the streets of LA (like that was a normal thing to do), the...
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TED Talks surpasses 1bn views & shows off its celebrity editor playlists feature
We challenge you not to say this in Dr Evil’s voice but TED Talks today announced that it has, “by best estimates,” surpassed 1 billion views since launching in 2006. To celebrate, the online lecture...
View ArticleHelp.me brings relief to US Eastern Seaboard as Sandy recovery continues
Just over two weeks after the largest recorded hurricane in the Atlantic dissipated the disaster relief effort is continuing in New York and New Jersey. Having left 200 people dead in seven countries...
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Thanksgiving coronal mass ejections will bring the Aurora Borealis further...
The British Geological Survey (BGS) has issued a Geomagnetic Disturbance Alert in the past few minutes advising the public to expect an increase in geomagnetic activity in the atmosphere over the next...
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NASA’s Black Marble image shows how stunning the Earth is at night
You are looking at some of the most detailed images ever taken by NASA of the Earth at night, and they are just spectacular. NASA high resolution image of the Earth at night. Credit: NASA Earth...
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From 1972 to 2012 – each of NASA’s Blue Marble images together
Yesterday NASA revealed its stunning images of the Earth at night. Called “Black Marble” this was the agency’s latest in a series of images of the planet, which all started in 1972. Animation of...
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Google brings NASA’s Black Marble to Google Maps in amazing detail
After bringing light to Apple users this morning with the release of Google Maps for iOS Google is now bringing darkness to Google Maps users. Last week NASA released amazing images of the Earth at...
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NASA to crash two satellites into the North Pole (of the Moon)
Just a week before Christmas NASA will today crash two satellites into the North Pole. But don’t worry, its targeting the North Pole of the Moon, and it’s all in the name of science. NASA says it will...
View ArticleHow does NASA drive the Curiosity Rover on Mars?
How do you drive a rover on Mars? Carefully, was the answer from NASA today as it released a short animation showing how the process actually works (and it turns out the answer is more like Star Trek...
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Forget the Mayans, Google Now predicts the world will end on December 21,2012
As I write this the clock has just passed midnight on December 21, 2012 – the day the world is set to end, according to some interpretations of the Mayan calendar…and also according to Google Now....
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Google updates its Crisis Response Map to show the spread of NSW bush fires
Google has begun mapping the spread the catastrophic bush fires which are raging through New South Wales in Australia. Updating its Crisis Map for the first time this year Google is working with the...
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The ESA releases a stunning image of the UK, Ireland, & France from space
The European Space Agency has released a stunning, and rare, photograph of the UK, Ireland, and Northern France taken from space, today. Called “Green Islands,” the medium resolution image shows most...
View ArticleI’ve got a bad feeling about this: Obama Administration says no to building a...
He hasn’t even been inaugurated into his second term but President Obama has just made the first mistake of his second term in office, by refusing to build a fully operational Death Star. Never mind,...
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NASA just beamed the Mona Lisa to the Moon – and this is a good thing
“This is the first time anyone has achieved one-way laser communication at planetary distances.” That awesome sentence was said by David Smith from MIT, who is the Principal Investigator for NASA’s...
View ArticleIn space everyone can hear you flush the toilet
Everyone’s favourite Canadian in space*, Commander Chris Hadfield, has shown us many awesome things aboard the International Space Station. And his latest is perhaps one of the most interesting – he’s...
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Tiny meteorite puts a huge dent in the Lunar surface
Did you raise a pint to Ireland’s national saint on March 17 this year? If you did, let us reassure you that if you saw flashes in the sky you weren’t seeing things. What you were seeing were dozens of...
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Liquid found on Titan: Saturn in science and mythology
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft finds liquid for the first time on Saturn’s moon, Titan, but why was Saturn venerated in mythology throughout the ancient world? NASA has completed analysis on data provided...
View ArticleSpaceX to fly passengers around far side of moon, first human glimpse in 45...
SpaceX will fly two private citizens around the far side of the moon, a region that hasn’t been seen by human eyes since 1972. SpaceX announced it will send two citizen passengers around Earth’s...
View ArticleNASA Cassini probe to go out with a blast after 20 years, plunging into...
Cassini, a probe sent by NASA in 1997 to study Saturn and its 2 moons, Titan and Enceladus – is now set to start on its last mission, dubbed the “Grand Finale”. 2017 marks 20 years since the launch of...
View ArticleNASA opens ISS for commercial opportunities as it moves towards privatization
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces it is opening the International Space Station (ISS) for commercial business so that US industry innovation can accelerate a “thriving...
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Politicians split over 2024 goal for Moon landing, sustainable path to Mars
President Trump’s goal to return to the Moon by 2024 and to use it as a launching point for Mars has been met with praise for being ambitious and criticism regarding sustainability and feasibility....
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Founder Institute, NASA launch Advanced Technologies Accelerator in partnership
The Founder Institute, the global accelerator headquartered in Silicon Valley, announces the launch of its Advanced Technologies Accelerator in partnership with NASA. The “Founder Institute Advanced...
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‘Space debris is the speed bump on the path to the trillion-dollar space...
“Space debris is the ‘speed bump’ on the path to the trillion-dollar space economy,” according to testimony in the Senate from the director of the US Office of Space Commerce. Just a few weeks ago two...
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Landing first woman & next man on the moon ‘accelerates our path to Mars,’...
NASA’s Artemis program looks to land the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024, which will accelerate America’s path to Mars while providing more opportunities for space commercialization,...
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Develop a Python application to notify you about approaching earthbound...
I woke up this morning thinking about Armageddon and how fragile we are as a planet if an asteroid comes our way. I am also intrigued by exploring space and the technologies available from my desk. I...
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