By Roy Choi |
Space X launches Falcon 9 for Mission CSR-2 to resupply the International Space Station with supplies and equipment. Watch the live stream here as it makes its way to the ISS. Streaming by Ustream UPDATE: It successfully launched!…
By Brandon Russell |
Holy wow this is incredible I can’t believe what I’m seeing. Just look at Earth to scale. We’re like a speck of dust compared to the Sun, waiting to be consumed in a fiery Armageddon. At least it looks friggin’ beautiful, actually seeing activity on…
By Roy Choi |
SpaceX is taking to the skies (and beyond) again, Friday, March 1 10:30 a.m. (EST) to be exact. The SpaceX Falcon 9 will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida Friday morning and we’ll have the livestream here on TechnoBuffalo. After the launch, the spacecraft, Dragon, will…
By Ron Duwell |
The US Food and Drug Administration has green lit the use of the Argus II, a two part bionic eye designed for patients who are almost completely blind through retinis pigmentosa. Its creator, Second Sight, was able to convince an advisory panel that the benefits…
By Brandon Russell |
A new planet, about the size of the moon, has been discovered about 210 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. That’s about big enough for you and a few of your close friends. Dubbed Kepler-37b, the diminutive rock is actually part of a new…
By Brandon Russell |
Please come out from your Armageddon bunker. The world isn’t coming to an end, though Earth did get pummeled by a meteorite last Friday. NASA estimates claim the event was the largest rock—possibly 10,000 tons—in more than 100 years, and that it exploded with a…
By Brandon Russell |
The first drilling sample of Mars rock powder has been transferred from the Curiosity Rover’s drill to its scoop, ready to be analyzed for extraterrestrial life. That’s a huge accomplishment considering the amount of steps required, and the fact that the rover is millions of…
By Brandon Russell |
While Curiosity continues to comb Mars for life, scientists are actively sketching out plans to explore other potentially habitable regions. And on the list, much closer than that so-called Earth-like planet that’s 44 light years away, is the moon Europa, which researchers for years have…
By Ron Duwell |
Why wait for the professionals to release gorgeous images of space when a man can do it from his own backyard? Amateur astronomer Alan Friedman uses nothing more than an industrial strength webcam and a small telescope to create powerful images of the Sun from…
By Brandon Russell |
That asteroid that flew by earlier today may have been 17,200 miles away from Earth, but scientists say the event should be considered a wakeup call. I mean, a ten ton space rock exploded over Russian skies today and left a warpath in its wake—asteroid…
By Brandon Russell |
The world is ending. We’re on the cusp of total extinction. Grab your favorite smartphone and say goodbye. Asteroid 2012 DA14 hasn’t even flown by yet. Was today’s Russian meteorite a warning shot? No, but the science behind it is truly fascinating. Along with our…
By Sean P. Aune |
Residents of Russia’s Ural Mountains region had a bit of a shock Friday morning as the caught video of a 10-ton meteor exploding over the region damaging buildings and injuring 950 people. As most eyes are focused on the approach of asteroid 2012 DA14 due to pass the…
By Brandon Russell |
Asteroid 2012 DA14 will fly so close to Earth’s gravitational pull that scientists say the space rock could experience violent tremors. The asteroid, which is said to be about half the size of a football field, is expected to pass us by on Friday, and…
By Sean P. Aune |
Satellites may be in danger this week as a record setting asteroid passes through the parking lot that is the planet’s geosynchronous parking lot. 2012 DA14, an asteroid discovered last Feb., measures a mere 150ft wide, but it could be enough to wreak havoc with the world’s…
By Brandon Russell |
The Mars Curiosity’s lifelong dream of drilling into the Red Planet’s surface has finally come true. In a celebratory Tweet on Saturday, a picture reveals a freshly dug hole—about 0.63-inch wide and 2.5-inches deep—in a fine-grained sedimentary bedrock thought to contain evidence of water. This…
By Brandon Russell |
Out on Mars, thousands of miles away, NASA’s Curiosity is doing its thing, roaming, zapping and even capturing MySpace self-portraits. And on its quest to uncover the mysteries that lie below the Red Planet’s surface, the rover has come across a weird metallic object jutting…
By Ron Duwell |
257,885,161-1. Don’t forget that number any time soon because it’s currently the largest prime number known to man. Dr. Curtis Cooper of the University of Central Missouri has become the latest in a series of mathematicians who have uncovered these enormous theoretical Mersenne prime numbers…
By Brandon Russell |
Superhuman Felix Baumgartner, who forever pushed the limits of what’s humanly possible, traveled at a speed of 843.6 miles per hour on his record-breaking jump, Red Bull confirmed. That’s 1.25x the speed of sound. I can’t even comprehend moving that quickly. After months of confirming…
By Brandon Russell |
When humans colonize the moon, ferrying materials across state/country/space lines may not be necessary. Instead, researchers might enlist 3D printers to construct lunar bases, using materials extracted directly from the Moon itself. The European Space Agency (ESA) has partnered with architects Foster + Partners to…
By Todd Haselton |
Nokia recently announced that it was awarded a grant of $1 billion euros (approx. $1.3 billion USD) from the European Union’s Future and Emerging Technologies program to help build products that use graphene. The material, Nokia says. “has a breaking strength 300 times greater than…
By Brandon Russell |
What if Mars was just like Earth—or at least an approximation? Because what the European Space agency has discovered sure suggests the martian planet has seen better days. Maybe it wasn’t always the barren, lonely desert we’ve always made it out to be. The agency…
By Brandon Russell |
NASA on Tuesday said its Curiosity Rover will soon drill into rocks that contain veins of light-colored minerals—thought to be hydrated calcium sulphates—in the hopes of finding signs of water. The agency’s engineers have given the thumbs up, so it’s only a matter of time…
By Ron Duwell |
Imagine all your childhood images of a giant squid. A huge dangling beast with monstrous tentacles, crushing submarines and glaring at you with an eye the size of a beach ball. Captain Nemo battling one of the creatures in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, vikings combating…
By Adriana Lee |
Some people believe that the world will end today, December 21, 2012, a date that marks the end of the 5,126-year Great Cycle from the Mayan “Long Count” calendar. Actually, it’s more than just a few folks. Quite a lot of people are worrying about this…
