By Brandon Russell |
This doesn’t really capture the scale of Mars’s Mount Sharp, a destination NASA’s Curiosity Rover will eventually explore, but it shows a geography that rises more than 3 miles above the Gale Crater floor. That’s taller than any mountain here in the contiguous states in…
By Brandon Russell |
After a minor setback, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has analyzed a rock sample in its Sample Analysis at Mars and Chemistry and Mineralogy instruments. And scientists have concluded what we’ve suspected all along: Mars may have once supported life. According to the findings, sulfur, hydrogen,…
By Brandon Russell |
All you and I see is a scorched rocky terrain. But what NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter sees is completely different, and new data collected by the craft could change the way we see Earth’s most mysterious neighbor. Under the pitted canyons, flatlands and chasms are…
By Brandon Russell |
It was like any other Friday except for that incredibly insane, I can’t believe that happened, Russian meteorite. That thing, on the same day as the DA14 was whizzing by Earth, seemingly came out of nowhere, crashing through our atmosphere at incredible speeds before the…
By Maximum PC |
The STRaND-1 nanosatellite carries a Google Nexus One At a time when the who’s who of the mobile world are busy strutting their stuff at the Mobile World Congress, Surrey Space Centre (University of Surrey) and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) Ltd are celebrating a mobile launch…
By Brandon Russell |
Curiosity’s paradise vacation on Mars has run into an unexpected issue, with one of its onboard computers malfunctioning this past week. According to National Geographic, the computer became corrupted and failed to go into sleep mode, which could set the rover’s activities back a week…
By Roy Choi |
After what seemed like a successful launch of the SpaceX Dragon Capsule to the International Space Station, SpaceX product manager John Insprucker stated the “Dragon is experiencing trouble right now.”…
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 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 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 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…
