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 Brandon Russell |
NASA apparently has aspirations to go to infinity and beyond, taking a page right out of Disney’s famous Toy Story movies. The agency’s next generation spacesuit prototype, dubbed Z-1, looks conspicuously similar to Buzz Lightyear’s famous white getup with complementary green trim. In all honesty,…
By Brandon Russell |
NASA is going to purposely crash both of its Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Spacecraft into a mountain on the Moon Dec. 17. For science. The controlled impact is a send off of sorts, as the crafts, which have been in polar orbit around…
By Brandon Russell |
NASA’s Curiosity is slowly, carefully, thoroughly examining the chemistry of Mars, pinging back analyzed soil samples and quirky vacation self-portraits. There’s still a lot to explore, but it’s hard for one rover to cover an entire planet, you know? So NASA has plans to send…
By Brandon Russell |
The Golden Spike Company, a mysterious private firm supposedly backed by playboy billionaires, is plotting a return to the Moon by 2020. A manned return, according to Internet rumors, though nothing has been confirmed. An announcement is allegedly set for this Thursday, Dec. 6. Hardly…
By Brandon Russell |
Space is unfathomably, insanely, horrifically massive. It doesn’t end, it just goes. Forever. How do we know? NASA’s Voyager 1 probe, which lifted off from Earth back in 1977, is currently 11 billion miles away from where you and I sit, and counting. 11 billion…
By Brandon Russell |
NASA shared its sort-of-kind-of earthshaking news at a press conference on Monday, revealing that after thorough soil analysis, evidence of organic compounds have been found on Mars. The Red Planet looks like a barren, lonely dessert, but its landscape actually hides a much more complex…
By Brandon Russell |
The U.S. Air Force is testing a top secret spaceplane, dubbed X-37B, and nobody knows what it’s for. There’s some speculative reports hypothesizing as to why it exists, but nothing is publicly known other than it shares a lineage to any old U.S. space shuttle.…
By Brandon Russell |
Elon Musk wants to bring you and 79,999 of your closest friends to colonize a nice little spread on Mars. The SpaceX founder and CEO revealed his ambitious plans to the Royal Aeronautical Society earlier this month, revealing each trip would cost $500,000 and would…
By Brandon Russell |
That big earth shattering announcement researchers teased last week isn’t going to be anything special, according to NASA. Maybe the Red Planet is a lot less interesting than we initially thought. Maybe there aren’t any buried human (or alien) remains waiting to be found. Or…
By Roy Choi |
NASA keeps on delivering some awesome footage from the red planet. Now NASA brings us a massive dust do storm spotted by its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The effects of the dust storm has showed a drop in atmospheric clarity, drop in air pressure and…
By Brandon Russell |
Researchers have allegedly discovered something on Mars that’s utterly “earthshaking.” As in, this will change science and our perception of the Red Planet forever. What could it be? The Mars Science Lab isn’t sharing the big news just yet, because it wants to double and…
By Brandon Russell |
Radiation levels on Mars are at a level that’s relatively safe for humans, according to preliminary data collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover. As much as Mars’ geography looks like any old desert here on Earth, I’m still not so sure I’d be comfortable residing on…
By Brandon Russell |
There’s going to be another meteor shower tonight/early morning, with peak hours between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. ET. Phones, tablets, company loyalty; we sometimes forget that right above our heads some truly amazing things are taking place. Sometimes natural, other times insane daredevil madness.…
By Brandon Russell |
Researchers have allegedly discovered what is being considered a super-Earth, and it’s only 44 light years away. Not far at all. According to Reuters, astronomers are saying the big orb, dubbed HD 40307g, possesses key features that make it a prime candidate for life, including…
By Brandon Russell |
Even the most unlikely of plans have the potential for greatness. Sung Wook Paek, an MIT graduate, came up with one such proposal, and it could be what saves humanity. It involves paintballs and giant asteroids. It’s crazy, but it just might work. According to…
By Adriana Lee |
Ever wanted to build your own satellite? Good news, for the first time ever, it’s possible to do just that using commercially available components. It’s not cheap, nor is it easy, but it is possible using a CubeSat design. (To find out how, click here…
By Brandon Russell |
When NASA’s Curiosity Rover took a scoop of Martian soil early last week, it uncovered an unexpected bright object that, scientists later found, isn’t a dislodged piece of the craft. Amazingly, NASA has confirmed that the shiny material is actually alien in origin, with many…
By Brandon Russell |
The Orionid meteor shower will put on a spectacular show of celestial rock and fire this weekend, and you can watch the whole thing online. The meteor shower will be at its peak, Space.com said, during the early morning hours on Sunday, particularly just before…
By Sean P. Aune |
We’ve been excitedly following the Mars Curiosity Rover mission here at TechnoBuffalo, but I’m one of the few staff members that is old enough to remember the first mission, and able to appreciate just how far our exploration of the red planet has come. Way…
By Brandon Russell |
Scientists have discovered a planet said to be made primarily made out of diamond — twice as big as Earth. I think Kim Kardashian just fainted. Discovered by researchers at Yale, the bling planet, scientifically referred to as 55 Cancri e, was found orbiting a…
By Roy Choi |
The SpaceX Dragon docked to the International Space Station (ISS) early Wednesday morning. Dragon is expected to remain docked to the ISS for 18 months. Dragon shuttled supplied the station with 882 pounds of supplies and researching equipment. As of right now the Space X…
By Brandon Russell |
Mars is largely perceived as a lifeless wasteland of rock, dirt and endless dunes. Not exactly a place you’d want to visit, or even explore. But a new theory suggests there’s much more activity taking place on the Red Planet than previously thought. First discovered…
By Brandon Russell |
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover snapped a few photos that could indicate there was once “vigorous” water flow on the Red Planet. If you saw the evidence unlabeled, presented without context, you’d think both were snapped here on Earth. The resemblance is striking, and scientists believe…
