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A hacker collective called “The Unknowns” has published a Pastebin document that allegedly proves they managed to gain unauthorized access to a number of high profile websites.
The list of targets includes the Bahrain Ministry of Defense, Thai Royal Navy, a subdomain owned by car manufacturer Renault, Ha... |
2 May 2012
05:35 GMT |
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An international group of researchers from four different teams met last week in the United States, to test critical components in an instrument that will be installed on the upcoming NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission.
It consists of four identical spacecraft that will fly in formation high above Earth&#... |
2 May 2012
04:33 GMT |
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A new paper, to be published in the May 10 issue of the esteemed Astrophysical Journal, details an amazing cosmic event that is currently taking place in the nearby spiral galaxy M83. Investigators discovered an ultraluminous X-ray source, which is part of a mysterious class of black holes.
The new investigation wa... |
2 May 2012
03:01 GMT |
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The construction of NASA's next-generation observatory, which is scheduled to replace the Hubble Space Telescope by 2018, is coming along nicely. A few days ago, several key components of the James Webb Space Telescope were lowered in a special test chamber, where they are now frozen. The thermal vacuum test c... |
30 April 2012
10:14 GMT |
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The NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 905, the only SCA still in active duty, is scheduled to carry out its last official mission this September, when the space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to be transported from the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, to California.
The orbiter is to be permanently displayed at the Ca... |
30 April 2012
05:54 GMT |
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Officials from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, have recently announced that the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity has less than 100 days to go before it finally reaches its destination. The spacecraft is scheduled to land on the Red Planet in August.
The milestone was reached on A... |
30 April 2012
03:14 GMT |
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After consulting with representatives from the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, in New York City, officials at NASA decided to fly the space shuttle Enterprise out to the Big Apple today, April 27. The test orbiter is already installed on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 905, which is currently parked on the runway ... |
27 April 2012
06:00 GMT |
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Officials at private aerospace company Sierra Nevada Corporation have just announced that the space plane they are developing could begin conducting commercial spaceflights as early as 2016. The vehicle is called the Dream Chaser.
Analysts could not help but notice the similarities between the designs of Dream Chas... |
26 April 2012
10:31 GMT |
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NASA officials at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, the former home of the American space agency's shuttle fleet, announce the successful delivery of the Orion Ground Test Vehicle.
The capsule is meant to help engineers conduct path-finding operations inside the KSC Operations & Checkout (O&C) Facility... |
26 April 2012
10:20 GMT |
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Blue Origin, the private space company put together by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos more than 12 years ago, has developed a reputation for keeping its spacecraft and rocket designs secretive, but its business model has recently been unveiled. Basically, the company will rely on reusable rockets and spacecraft.
This app... |
26 April 2012
09:57 GMT |
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NASA has recently released this artist's illustration to showcase just how many planets are believed to exist within our galaxy. According to the latest estimate, more than 100 billion alien worlds revolve in orbit around stars in the Milky Way.
A paper detailing the investigation appears in the January 12 issu... |
26 April 2012
04:58 GMT |
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An international collaboration of experts, led by NASA scientists, found that numerous asteroids the size of the one believed to have killed the dinosaurs struck our planet between 3.8 to 1.8 billion years ago. This number was found to be a lot higher than initially calculated, the new study reveals.
Dinosaurs went ... |
26 April 2012
04:39 GMT |
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Since it boasts one of the most complex chemistries in the solar system, the Saturnine moon Titan naturally captured the undivided attention of astronomers. Now, experts want to know how long it's been since the celestial body started producing methane. Though similar to our own planet in many respects, the Sa... |
25 April 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Using the NASA infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers recently conducted a new series of observations on the Sombrero Galaxy, which is also known as M104 and NGC 4594. The study revealed that this cosmic structure does not abide by the standard classification of spiral galaxies.
The thing that puzzled expert... |
25 April 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Maryland, announce the completion of a critically-important component of its next-generation flagship observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Engineers have just finished assembling the primary mirror backplane support structure, which... |
25 April 2012
04:05 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce the second scheduled test firing of the J-2X thruster it is developing for its next-generation heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System. NASA is working with Canoga Park, California-based Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne on this project. The engine is currently installe... |
25 April 2012
03:46 GMT |
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Officials with the Boeing Company announce that they plan to start using their Commercial Space Transportation-100 (CST-100) manned space capsule to launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station as early as 2015 or 2016. While a firm date cannot yet be set, the company is convinced that it has what it t... |
24 April 2012
10:42 GMT |
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The Hubble Space Telescope has just turned 22 in low-Earth orbit. Launched back on April 24, 1990, at 8:35 EDT (1235 GMT), the observatory is one of the most iconic scientific instruments in the world, having captured the imagination and fascination of several generations with its images.
Along with the Chandra X-r... |
24 April 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Officials from the Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) announced yesterday, April 23, that the launch of their Dragon spacecraft would most likely be delayed by at least a week.
Takeoff was supposed to occur on April 30, although the private company is way overdue with it... |
24 April 2012
03:12 GMT |
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Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) plans to become one of the first companies in the world to be involved in moving our species to other worlds. In short, SpaceX plans to save humanity by making us a multi-planetary species.
The corporation is scheduled to launch its Dra... |
23 April 2012
07:50 GMT |
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Experts from Secfence Technologies reveal that NASA has been working on patching some of the vulnerabilities present on its websites, but there are still a few on which the ever-present cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw can still be found. Since its last report, when it admitted that there’s a lot of work to be ... |
22 April 2012
01:01 GMT |
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Officials with the American space agency say that they plan to use a small, unmanned drone to conduct a series of tests on how aircraft behave when they pass the sound barrier. This effort could lead to the reintroduction of commercial supersonic aircraft.
The data acquired from these investigations will eventually ... |
20 April 2012
09:49 GMT |
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Taking advantage of a period of increased solar activity – in November 2011 – astronomers operating the Hubble Space Telescope took these two images of Uranus, which provide some of the most detailed views ever obtained of auroras taking place on this planet. The fact that the intensity and brightness of... |
20 April 2012
03:27 GMT |
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During the official transfer ceremony that saw NASA officials hand over one of their three remaining orbiters to representatives of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the space shuttle Discovery met the shuttle Enterprise face to face.
More accurately, they met nose to nose, on the tarmac at the Smithso... |
20 April 2012
03:18 GMT |
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After leaving the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, and flying over the US Capitol on April 17, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) 905 landed at the Washington Dulles International Airport, carrying the orbiter Discovery.
Yesterday, April 18, it was turned over to the Smithsonian National Air and Space M... |
19 April 2012
10:04 GMT |
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Yesterday, April 17, 2012, the NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 905 carried the orbiter Discovery over the US Capitol, in Washington DC, during the last flight the legendary spacecraft ever took. The SCA then headed to Virginia, where the shuttle will be exhibited from now on.
The heavily modified Boeing 747 aircraft ... |
18 April 2012
08:47 GMT |
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Officials at NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) announce that the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) airborne observatory will soon receive a science instrument upgrade, which will make it more sensitive in its observations.
Through the addition of the High-resolution Airborne Wideband... |
18 April 2012
04:00 GMT |
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In order to mark the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's upcoming anniversary, scientists have just released one of the largest mosaic images ever assembled from those snapped by the observatory. For the outstanding event, Hubble looks right into the heart of the Tarantula Nebula, at a stellar nursery called 30 ... |
17 April 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Officials at the Littleton, Colorado-based Lockheed Martin Corporation have recently announced that the propellant tank for NASA's upcoming Mars-bound orbiter has just been integrated with the rest of the spacecraft platform.
The company is the main contractor on this project, which is being managed by the NAS... |
17 April 2012
04:37 GMT |
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Working under a $1.9 billion COTS agreement with NASA, Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) has just delivered the first stage of its Antares rocket to a launch pad at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility. The vehicle's maiden flight is scheduled for as early as this July.
The company is developing th... |
13 April 2012
05:32 GMT |
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This amazing image, collected shortly after 1200 UTC on April 12, 1981, shows Columbia launching to space in the first-ever flight conducted under the NASA Space Shuttle Program (SSP). Unlike subsequent missions, STS-1 had only two crewmembers. NASA astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen launched from the Kennedy Spac... |
12 April 2012
09:52 GMT |
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Officials with the American space agency says that its approach to space exploration and navigation is about to change soon, if the Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC) demonstrator is tested successfully.
This is an extremely stable, highly accurate device used for time keeping. Similar atomic clocks, featuring high leve... |
12 April 2012
04:08 GMT |
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A recently formed group of hackers called Team Dig7tal RevolutioN, or Team Dig7tal, demonstrated the presence of vulnerabilities on websites that belong to NASA (careerlaunch.jpl.nasa.gov), the Vatican (vatican.va), Humboldt State University (humboldt.edu) and The Weather Channel (weather.com). As the screenshot pro... |
11 April 2012
09:23 GMT |
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Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers at NASA captured this colorful, breathtaking view of a portion of the Orion Nebula, revealing a great deal of cosmic chaos at this location. The nebula is located around 1,500 light-years from Earth.
Scientists used Spitzer because its infrared detectors can sense the ... |
11 April 2012
05:36 GMT |
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On February 29, the skies above the US Army’s Proving Grounds in Yuma, Arizona were bustling with activity. A test model of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) was just about to be parachuted out of an airplane, in order for engineers to test its parachutes. The purpose of the exercise was to investiga... |
10 April 2012
10:32 GMT |
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The United Launch Alliance, a collaborative effort between The Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin, announces that its Atlas V delivery system has been selected for launching the next generation of weather satellites into geostationary orbit.
Officials made the announcement on Thursday, April 5. They say that the two... |
10 April 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Members of the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have resumed their normal duties yesterday, April 3, following the arrival of a resupply spacecraft last week.
During the weekend, the six astronauts unloaded the cargo stored aboard the third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) space caps... |
4 April 2012
11:04 GMT |
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Officials in charge of compiling the Senior Review guiding NASA's decision on which astrophysics missions to continue funding, and which to discontinue, say that all nine spacecraft that were brought to their attention should continue collecting data until at least 2014.
The review was requested on account of ... |
4 April 2012
09:33 GMT |
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NASA Headquarters exoplanetary biology researcher Shawn Domagal-Goldman is convinced that the American space agency's Kepler Telescope will discover another Earth within two years. The term is used to refer to a planet outside our solar system that is capable of supporting life as we know it.
This hypothetic s... |
4 April 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Officials at the Northrop Grumman Corporation announce that they have just received the first flight recorder that will go on the NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The instrument was built by Centennial, Colorado-based SEAKR Engineering, Inc.
The flight recorder is a solid-state electronics unit that will capt... |
3 April 2012
10:47 GMT |
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The American space agency is moving forward with plans to construct its next-generation rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). In a series of new tests, engineers were able to validate the avionics systems that will control the delivery system's solid rocket boosters.
This heavy-lift rocket will be the largest ... |
3 April 2012
05:34 GMT |
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Officials at the Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Inc. (SpaceX) announced that an independent panel would soon start to review the manned version of their Dragon spacecraft, in a bid to determine whether or not it complies with NASA regulations for human spaceflight.
At this point, Dragon i... |
3 April 2012
03:58 GMT |
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Having launched on November 26, 2011, the NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity is currently halfway to its destination. Current plans call for it to land on Mars on August 5, 2012. Mission controllers say that all parameters aboard the spacecraft are nominal.
Curiosity is still encapsulated in it aeros... |
2 April 2012
09:10 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the only airborne space observatory in existence announce that they were recently able to collect a three-color composite image of the last days in the agony of a Sun-like star.
The object, called Minkowski 2-9 (M2-9), is a dying star, which is currently producing its last exhalations before fi... |
30 March 2012
05:55 GMT |
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In a paper published in the March 30 issue of the top journal Science, experts proposed that the organic molecules which enabled the development of life here on Earth were first formed in the protoplanetary disk around the young Sun.
The conclusion belongs to a series of computer simulations, which revealed that the... |
30 March 2012
04:12 GMT |
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Investigators studying the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A say that an analysis of the distribution of chemical elements within the structure suggests that the massive precursor star that spawned the remnant was turned inside out by the huge blast.
To reach this conclusion, researchers first had to map the distributi... |
30 March 2012
03:00 GMT |
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I think it's funny how studies conducted lately are beginning to indicate that it may be possible that life never originated on Earth in the first place. In tune with those discoveries, a new study shows that amino acids can survive an impact between Earth and a comet.
Now that this has been demonstrated, it i... |
29 March 2012
09:30 GMT |
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An international group of investigators was recently able to produce the most accurate measurements on the radius of the Sun. In order to do that, the team used an unconventional approach, which other scientists did not have access to during previous studies.
Scientists in Hawaii, California and Brazil used the NAS... |
28 March 2012
14:01 GMT |
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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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According to officials at NASA, the science team operating the agency's Spitzer Space Telescope will be releasing more than 200 images of various galaxies throughout the year, all of them showing the structures in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The telescope is managed by the Spitzer Sci... |
27 March 2012
11:00 GMT |
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