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NASA answers question, "Where's all the snow at?"

Posted February 2, 2012 - 3:11 pm

Today a groundhog said there would be six more weeks of winter, and yet many of us here in the U.S. are wondering, "What winter?"
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Intense solar storm electrifies the air

Posted January 26, 2012 - 4:53 pm

Sorry boss, a solar storm has wiped out our data center here on earth.
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Scientists actually have decent reason to suggest searching photos moon for alien artifacts

Posted December 29, 2011 - 11:51 am

No one is saying aliens once landed on our moon to observe us. Two scientists are suggesting we have far too many photos of the moon not to study them closely, and crowd-sourcing a search for alien lunar camp sites is a good way to do that. Call it Big Data, Space Edition.
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For a trip to Mars, would you trust your life to people who can't keep track of a rock?

Posted December 9, 2011 - 2:59 pm

NASA is really good at long-term, complex, expensive technology projects. It's also a scientific organization that loans out the samples it collects to scientists studying the moon, comets and other sources. Unfortunately, NASA isn't that good at getting them all back.
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Another 'Earth' discovered, but don't make travel plans just yet

Posted December 6, 2011 - 10:26 am

The folks over at ITN News have posted a news report on Kepler-22b, a new "Earth-like" planet discovered by NASA scientists.
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NASA prepares for Mars rover launch: Here's how you can watch

Posted November 22, 2011 - 7:12 am

On Friday, November 25 at 10:25 am EST (7:25 am Pacific), the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission will rocket into the sky on a 191-foot-tall Atlas V rocket and begin its mission to Mars. While the MSL rover, Curiosity, is currently sitting on top of the Atlas V rocket, NASA is making its final preparations for the first launch opportunity, and tweeters are preparing for a two-day launch tweetup.
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NASA nearly ready to launch Mars super rover

Posted November 12, 2011 - 8:25 am

The space agency announced Thursday that the Mars Science Laboratory, its most advanced mobile robot yet, is set to lift off Nov. 25
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Behind the 'massive' malware ad-revenue fraud case

Posted November 10, 2011 - 11:43 am

The U.S. Department of Justice says six Estonians and a Russian raked in $14 million in fraudulent online ad revenue over four years.
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Viral video week in review (Oct. 29 - Nov. 4)

Posted November 5, 2011 - 7:59 am

Our weekly roundup of IT- or geeky-related videos from around the InterWebs.
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Is NASA developing a Tractor Beam?

Posted November 3, 2011 - 12:41 pm

In another life-imitates-art moment, NASA has posted an animation video showing what a possible tractor beam could look like.
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NASA CTO says help desks will soon be thing of past

Posted October 12, 2011 - 4:00 pm

As far as NASA's IT CTO is concerned, mobile technology and public and private cloud infrastructures will soon make help desks as we know them pointless.
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Around the World in About a Minute

Posted September 20, 2011 - 9:20 am

I think I left my lights on...
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NASA adds 'sharpen photo' filter to moon photos

Posted September 6, 2011 - 3:08 pm

Still doesn't answer the question about the monster in Apollo 18...
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Smartphones in Space!

Posted September 2, 2011 - 9:58 am

Star Wars-inspired spheres mix with Nexus S phones for awesome space mission
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New NASA satellite improves climate science

Posted August 31, 2011 - 1:07 pm

NASA science can look back at Earth, too.
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Robonaut 2 powers up on ISS

Posted August 30, 2011 - 10:16 am

Space station engineers assembled Robonaut 2 and powered it up for the first time almost six months after the humanoid robot was brought up to the orbiter by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery.
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Space elevator enthusiasts face unanswered questions

Posted August 12, 2011 - 2:21 pm

Attendees of a space elevator conference look for ways to build it.
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OpenStack creators launch cloud appliance start-up

Posted July 27, 2011 - 4:32 pm

Former NASA CTO Chris Kemp unveils his new company, which will sell a cloud computing hardware appliance.
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NASA explains why it's hard to build satellites

Posted July 22, 2011 - 9:46 am

No more shuttle, but still having fun with NASA
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NASA video envisioned space colonies by 2000

Posted July 18, 2011 - 1:01 pm

Space colonies predicted; instead we got iPods...
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Space shuttle shutdown: Cost effective or crazy?

Posted July 8, 2011 - 9:04 am

Up goes the Atlantis (today, if weather permits), but down goes the shuttle program. Can we afford to keep flying into space? Or is the question whether we can afford not to keep flying?
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DARPA, NASA seek ideas for starship travel

Posted June 17, 2011 - 9:58 am

The U.S. Department of Defense and NASA today issued a call for papers to help in their quest to ensure that humans can start interstellar space travel within 100 years.
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NASA, Stanford websites hit by search engine scammers

Posted May 9, 2011 - 5:43 pm

Scammers looking to flog cheap software have hacked Web pages on high-profile websites, including those belonging to NASA and Stanford University.
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Cloud CIO: Lessons from the OpenStack Design Summit

Posted May 4, 2011 - 10:37 am

The recent OpenStack Design Summit delivered some interesting insight on cost and infrastructure -- whether you're working with this open source technology, or other cloud platforms. Here are two lessons learned from eBay and Dell.
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When Asteroids Collide!

Posted April 28, 2011 - 11:02 am

Thanks to the Hubble Telescope, we can now see evidence of asteroids colliding with each other. This makes us worry even more about an asteroid hitting the planet.
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