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Article | 16/01/2010 NASA: Options dwindling for Mars Spirit rover

NASA says it is narrowing a short list of things its scientists can to extricate its stuck Mars Spirit rover.

Article | 7/01/2010 NASA telescopes watch cosmic violence, mysteries unravel

In the past few days there has been a burst of new photos and information from all manner of NASA's spacecraft and telescopes. The devices, ranging fr...

Article | 2/01/2010 NASA Mars rover Spirit has survivability option?

As NASA celebrates its Mars rover Spirit’s sixth anniversary exploring the red planet it is hunting for a way to keep the machine, which is mired in a...

Article | 22/12/2009 NASA space shuttle to carry key space station upgrades

NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour is closed for the Christmas holiday but plenty of work is going on around it.

Article | 11/12/2009 NASA helicopter crash tests flying airbag

NASA is looking to reduce the deadly impact of helicopter crashes on their pilots and passengers with what the agency calls a high-tech honeycomb airb...

Article | 9/12/2009 In pictures: 20 key NASA projects in 2009

From the space shuttle and Mars mission to water on the moon and ice on the Earth, NASA has its hands in a variety of critical projects

Article | 9/12/2009 Virgin Galactic blasts into the great unknown

Virgin Galactic has rolled out the very cool looking suborbital SpaceShipTwo spacecraft it expects will take thousands of space tourists on a rocket r...

Article | 8/12/2009 Commercial spaceship roll-out revs space tourism

Looking to keep the hype machine revved as customers wait at least another year, space tourism company Virgin Galactic today will debut the suborbital...

Article | 24/11/2009 IBM smartphone software translates 11 languages

Researchers at IBM say they have created smart software that that translates text between English and 11 other languages including Chinese, Korean, Ja...

Article | 17/11/2009 NASA space shuttle’s cosmic cuisine

As NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis astronauts blasted into space this afternoon, the last thing on their minds was wondering what’s for dinner.

Article | 14/11/2009 NASA finds “lots of water” from moon crash tests

The NASA spacecraft that plowed into the moon last month have discovered what the space agency calls “significant amounts of water” on the lunar surfa...

Article | 13/11/2009 10 NASA space technologies that may never see the cosmos

The US House Committee on Science and Technology last week held Congressional hearings to examine the summary report of the Review of US Human Space F...

Article | 5/11/2009 Cisco computer game lets you play CEO

If you want to be a CEO but not have any of the real responsibilities of one, you could try to play a new online game being offered by Cisco. The comp...

Article | 28/10/2009 Can the Internet handle H1N1?

While sounding a bit like Chicken Little, US Federal government watchdogs today said that the H1N1 pandemic will cause a significant increase in the u...

Article | 8/10/2009 NASA says 200-yard long asteroid will miss Earth

NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid known as Apophis and now say it has only a very slim chance of banging into Earth.