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Officials at the American space agency announce the setup of a new virtual institute at the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), in Moffett Field, California. Called the NASA Aeronautics Research Institute (NARI), the organization will solicit and foster innovations to address several key issues.
These include technolog... |
28 March 2012
02:59 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Ames Research Center, in Moffett Field, California, have recently created a new series of image processing algorithms that allow them to process photos collected by the Apollo missions to the Moon in a way that was not even thought possible before.
Using the grayscale pixels in the photos as a s... |
29 December 2011
07:28 GMT |
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Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt have offered to save the giant airship hangar located at Moffett Field, California. The installation, currently managed by the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), is now in danger of being scrapped due to lack of funding. The facility is called Hangar One, and was one of the US... |
12 December 2011
06:33 GMT |
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During the Kepler Science Conference held at the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), in Moffett Field, California, experts in charge of the mission said that the second batch of data the telescope sent back is unlikely to be its last. As such, we can expect it to discover even more exoplanets.
On December 5, the missi... |
7 December 2011
04:42 GMT |
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The American space agency has selected two of its California-based research centers to conduct a new series of investigations into two potentially game-changing technologies related to space exploration.
The work could lead to the development of new methods for detecting and analyzing extrasolar planets, as well as ... |
18 November 2011
05:55 GMT |
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Officials at the West Falls Church, Virginia-based Northrop Grumman Corporation, announce that their Modular Space Vehicle (MSV) project managed to pass its preliminary design review (PDR) test with flying colors. This allows the company to start focusing on further developing the spacecraft.
At this point, the Nor... |
14 November 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Together with NASA Research Park partner IntraPoint ant the Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (CMUSV), the Moffett Field, California-based NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) has developed a number of new technologies meant to aid disaster management.
A demonstration of some of the new technologies will be made... |
26 October 2011
02:38 GMT |
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Marking the end of the World Space Week, which lasted between October 4 and 10, NASA has released a new interactive, educational video game. The agency says that the program provides a new perspective on how NASA experts communicate among themselves and with their spacecraft.
The game can also be used as a simulat... |
12 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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A group of experts at the American space agency announce the development of a new technology for measuring air quality, as well as for detecting hazardous chemicals in the environment. The new sensors will be able to function while powered by a simple smartphone.
The tool was showcased on September 28 in Los Ange... |
1 October 2011
03:54 GMT |
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Astronomers say that they may have discovered the trails left behind by a comet passing through our neighborhood recently. The object itself has yet to be identified, but researchers say that it could pose a threat to our planet. Investigators base their conclusions on an analysis of a surprising meteor shower, that ... |
28 July 2011
04:28 GMT |
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A collaboration of American agencies are working together to analyze the amount of carbon being released from a dry lake bed in Railroad Valley, Nevada. The team is also concerned about how much of the dangerous greenhouse gas is emitted from the area surrounding the lake bed. The multi-institute team conducted its r... |
8 July 2011
07:34 GMT |
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NASA officials announce that the Kepler planet-hunting space telescope has regained full functionality, and is now back online. The observatory remained on safe mode for six days following an attempt to update some of its software. As experts attempted to do so, a computer malfunctions shut down primary science instr... |
23 March 2011
11:22 GMT |
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The American space agency has a new and simple plan – to become capable of flying among the stars by 2100. Working together with a Pentagon agency, NASA has already began the study phase for the 100-Year Starship project.Flying to other stars is not a very easy task, and there are monumental challenges to be su... |
23 March 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency say that their planet-hunting telescope has experienced a sudden “safe mode” event recently, during a planned communications sessions scheduled for March 14.As experts were trying to contact the Kepler Space Telescope in the Sun's orbit, the spacecraft experienc... |
18 March 2011
12:09 GMT |
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The NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), in Moffett Field, California, had a full year in 2010. The organization marked a number of firsts in its history, and managed to push the boundaries of science further than in 2009. One of the most notable events is the fact that the Kepler space telescope has begun producing its ... |
28 December 2010
03:19 GMT |
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Since a good hardware configuration needs an equally good and spacious chassis, Fractal Design decided to unleash a new chassis, one dubbed Arc Series and featuring the mid-tower form factor.One of the first things that Fractal Design's press release says about the chassis is that it boasts “minimalistic ... |
16 December 2010
08:54 GMT |
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The warm oceanic Agulhas Return Current (ARC), which is located southeast of South Africa, is now the target of a new climate investigation carried out by American researchers at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).This research is conducted so that researchers can get a clearer picture of t... |
15 December 2010
07:00 GMT |
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Sony held a presentation at the GDC meet up and the biggest news coming out of the event has been that the Sony motion tracking controller has been finally given an official name, the PlayStation Move. It seems that previous rumors, which pointed to names like Arc and Gem, were not accurate and that the company has b... |
11 March 2010
05:47 GMT |
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With Microsoft's Project Natal and with Sony's motion tracking controller arriving pretty much at some point during the fall, it's more important than ever to get the details right. And Sony might have been officially referring to its new console add-on as the “Sony Motion Controller” offic... |
4 March 2010
03:37 GMT |
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Sony seems to be ready to make some profit after last year revealing the biggest loss in the history of the company. A report in the Nikkei financial newspaper in Japan, which has been translated by Reuters, suggests that for the third quarter of 2009, the period between October and December, the company might report... |
1 February 2010
03:44 GMT |
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It seems that after talking about the Sony motion tracking wand as being a spring 2010 release for quite some time, the Japanese console manufacturer has actually decided to push the release date back to the fall of this year, mainly as a way of making sure that the device has a wide array of videogames ready for it ... |
20 January 2010
04:27 GMT |
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After unveiling the existence of its new Arc clamshell phone (last week), Virgin Mobile has now also made the handset commercially available. As previously announced, the Arc is a basic-featured device that will drain only $49 out of your pocket, credit card or any other place where you usually keep your money. W... |
9 July 2008
04:50 GMT |
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