Chris Hadfield is an astronaut for the 21st century. The Canadian former fighter pilot and current commander of the International Space Station has shown a supreme mastery of social media. H... Read more
A manned Soyuz spacecraft set a record for traveling to the International Space Station (ISS), arriving six hours after launch instead of the usual two days. Soyuz 34 lifted off from Baikonu... Read more
Something useful for America’s underemployed space agency to do GEOGRAPHY matters. In 1908 a rock the size of a city block hit the Earth’s atmosphere at 15km (9 miles) a second. The e... Read more
Described as a “directed energy orbital defense system,” DE-STAR is designed to harness some of the power of the sun and convert it into a massive phased array of laser beams An... Read more
3-D-printed organs are still decades away from reality Every week, it seems, there’s a new breakthrough in 3-D printing that promises us the ability to (eventually) fabricate some new thing... Read more
“The technologies we’re building to help rescue satellites in five years could be the very same ones used to clean up space ten years in the future or save a spacecraft on the wa... Read more
Inflatable spacecraft: Blown up in orbit THE International Space Station (ISS) is mankind’s holiday house in the sky. Like all such houses, it is a luxury item (costing $150 billion and risi... Read more
It’s tough to sleep in space. You’re stuck in a noisy machine all the time, the sun comes up every 90 minutes, and everything is lit with a garish sci-fi fluorescence. About half... Read more
DARPA wants robots that are able to eventually do many things humans can A headless humanoid robot clambers noisily through an obstacle course with the grim, unfeeling purpose of a terminato... Read more
The space agency is developing a service robot that can visit ailing satellites and refuel or even repair them on the spot. Geostationary satellites cost a fortune and, despite their sophist... Read more
X1 has the potential to produce high torques to allow for assisted walking over varied terrain, as well as stair climbing Marvel Comic‘s fictional superhero, Ironman, uses a powered ar... Read more
Sounds like a device from Star Trek This 20 pound box the size of a toaster can change the way people are diagnosed,instantly detecting “everything from infections, to stress, blood cells, c... Read more
New flexible aerogels are 500 times stronger than earlier versions and will be used in everything from clothing insulation to building insulation. A major improvement in the world’s lightest... Read more
The current U.S. space suit used by NASA is a dinosaur. Designed in 1992, it was only ever intended to be used by crews aboard the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS). Th... Read more
Southern and Moiseev have turned to Kickstarter to raise funds Although the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was unmanned during its recent first flight to the International Space Station, the succe... Read more
