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Electronic Arts and Maxis have released a new gameplay video of Spore, featuring the game's Producer, Kip Katsarelis. The video depicts Spore's space stage, at which point the player will have evolved its creatures into complex society. The player becomes the leader of the spacefaring civilization / empire,... |
27 August 2008
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Fishlabs, the German-based 3D mobile game developer, announced the release of Galaxy on Fire 2, the sequel to the award-winning game with the same title (minus the "2", of course). Following the success of the first Galaxy on Fire, its second part is set to offer a new and spectacular space adventure. The story of th... |
31 July 2008
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Two of the most promising concepts in the quest to establish a future commercial space flight service, the Armadillo and the XCOR rocket planes, designed and built by the Armadillo Aerospace of Mesquite, Texas and by the XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, California, are scheduled to flight a head-to-head race next week, as p... |
23 July 2008
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Starting with 2011, the Japanese company First Advantages will be able to provide wedding services at altitudes as high as 100 kilometers above ground. First Advantages recently signed a contract with the American aerospace company Rocketplane, which will be in charge of providing the means to propel the soon to be h... |
1 July 2008
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The issue with optical devices in space is that the extremely low pressure determines the adhesive that keeps them in place to release gases that either contaminate the lenses or move the lenses a couple of microns out of their original setting place. The same effect can be obtained while subjecting the adhesive mate... |
14 May 2008
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Almost four decades of Japan using the space for non-military applications are about to end on Friday with the introduction of a bill said to give the military space access. The action came with the visit of the Chinese President Hu Jiantao, whose country shot down one of its weather satellites last year, spreading f... |
12 May 2008
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The last big impact experienced by Earth occurred 65-million-year ago in Chicxulub, the Yucatan peninsula (southeastern Mexico) and doomed the world of the dinosaurs. If a similar asteroid would shock again with our planet, our very existence would be menaced. Smaller asteroids frequently hit Earth. For instance, the... |
30 April 2008
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Scientists looking for life in space make complicated calculations of where life could exist in the Universe and on which of the many planets, satellites and other space bodies. Then they come up with snore-inducing studies about carbon compositions, water presence, ideal temperatures, and light exposures. But the pe... |
23 April 2008
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On 3 November 1957, the Soviet Union launched a Sputnik 2 spacecraft carrying the first animal in space, a dog called Laika. The animal died a few hours after returning on Earth, probably due to stress and overheating caused by the thermal control system of the Sputnik spacecraft. Yesterday, Russian officials unveile... |
12 April 2008
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Whether it was the aliens or Russian fellow cosmonaut Leonid Brezhnev, it is unknown, however what is certain is that seven years after becoming the first man into space, Yury Gagarin died during a training flight with a Mig-15 spacecraft, aged 34. There have been a lot of theories over the years related to what kill... |
28 March 2008
11:22 GMT |
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If you are asking yourself the same question that Yasuhiro Togai posed a couple of years ago, then you should probably know that the answer is 'Yes! Boomerangs can fly in space just as well as they do back here on Earth.' Yasuhiro Togai is a Japanese world boomerang champion, and just before the space shutt... |
21 March 2008
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This is the first time when an electrical soliton wave was found in space and measured by the Cluster mission. The so-called soliton waves are a special type of wave which travel great distances without changing shape. The term soliton wave was first coined by John Scott Russell in 1834, while observing that at the b... |
19 March 2008
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It may seem rather strange, but meteorites - especially iron ones - with gem intrusions are extremely valuable items for collectors. Some of these space rocks may routinely exceed prices of one million US dollars on the market, while less valued items make their way to museums. Don't even think that thieves will... |
19 March 2008
05:39 GMT |
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The object now known as 2008 EB61 has been officially classified by the International Astronomical Union as the latest found asteroid. The discovery was made by Ryan Gallagher and Robbyn Kindle from the Forest Hill and North Richland Hills respectively, on March 9, after spotting a small feature of a unidentified spa... |
18 March 2008
06:17 GMT |
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Wow. This guy must have 30-40 vision to spot that iPod while glancing over some hi-res photos of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The space shuttle is currently on low-Earth orbit, docked to the International Space Station, meaning that the iPod is still there.The news comes courtesy of TUAW reader Walter who has spotted... |
17 March 2008
12:28 GMT |
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And as if we weren't all full of advertisements, someone had the bright idea to broadcast one into space. The campaign was initiated by the University of Leicester and is called Doritos 'You Make It, We Play It', which basically means that some lads in the United Kingdom will have the opportunity to cr... |
10 March 2008
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Recently, the space strategy genre has really received a shot in the arm. On the one hand, we have the excellent TBS that is Galactic Civilizations, together with its expansion Dark Avatar. On the other hand, the recent release of Sins of a Solar Empire has offered players a "spiritual" successor to the Homeworld ser... |
3 March 2008
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Mining diamonds from Earth's crust is a messy business, especially if you consider that they are rather rare on the surface. Scientists predict that larger amounts of diamonds may be found in our planet's inner regions where they usually form; however, the enormous pressure inside the Earth and the great de... |
27 February 2008
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Almost 40 years ago, the Apollo 11 mission allowed the first humans to land on the Moon (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969), after a four days space trip, marking one of the most important achievements in the history of mankind. Now NASA intends to build a human colony at the south pole of the Moon, so... |
22 February 2008
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On Earth we are protected from radiation by the planet's magnetic field and its thick atmosphere, however astronauts in Earth's orbit are not so lucky, and may receive doses of radiation while in space higher than if they were supposed to remain on the surface of the planet. Though not lethal on short perio... |
13 February 2008
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One of the most anticipated real time strategy (RTS) titles has finally been launched to game shops across the globe, while a Collector's Edition can be purchased online from the official Sins of a Solar Empire website. So if you are a real time strategy fan and you'd like to try a game that combines the de... |
6 February 2008
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Iran had a field day on Monday after reporting that it had successfully launched into space its first rocket, thus becoming one of the 11 countries in the world to have capabilities of launching satellites into space. The launch hasn't been confirmed yet by the international community, but could be one of those ... |
4 February 2008
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Ever wondered how future astronauts will drink their coffees when they wake up? Don't say they will use cups, because they have already tried that and its not very funny to get hot coffee all over your face. On Earth, the powerful gravitational field solves pretty much of this problem. Liquids are contained into... |
21 January 2008
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It's no secret that the virtual world is slowly taking over the real life (I should say "unfortunately" here, right?). And since the folks from NASA probably know that way better than everybody else, they are considering now to create a MMO game to appeal to the next generation of game-addicted scientists and e... |
21 January 2008
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After the press conference that took place in the wake of the launch of the first Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 1 in October last year, during which a Chinese official stated that the Republic of China had no scheduled mission to send a man on the Moon, now the Chinese Space program picks up the speed and plans to... |
8 January 2008
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Researchers have always wanted better and bigger tools to explore the immensity of the universe. Bigger telescopes, for example, can be used to obtain higher resolution pictures of extremely remote galaxies and stars, to observe and better understand how the early universe was like. And despite the levels of federal ... |
15 November 2007
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Named in 2002, after NASA's second administrator, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned space infrared observatory, which will be created as an improvement of the aging Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope is planned to be launched in 2013, from an Ariane 5 rocket, and is the result of the collaboratio... |
29 October 2007
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This week-end you will get yourselves launched into space and that's because a new game from the StarWraith 3D Games ended up in my hands. I'm talking about the new Evochron Renegades.This game is basically another sequel, which follows other game called Evochron Alliance. Alliance belongs to the same categ... |
26 October 2007
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Another space enigma has been solved by a team at the University of Arizona: what causes the powerful bursts from "magnetars", the most magnetic objects in space. These odd neutron stars are so superdense that the Sun's mass can be packed into a body which has the size of the Manhattan Island. Still, their magne... |
21 September 2007
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Should we rely by 2036 on Bruce Willis' deep-core drilling skills or should we take a more scientific approach to the asteroid 99942 Apophis? By 2036, people on Earth could see the Armageddon movie turned into reality. British space engineers have already unveiled designs for the development of a satellite that ... |
21 September 2007
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When it comes to computer chips, few things are more damaging than excessive heat, and cooling solutions that attempt to bring the temperatures down at low or at least manageable levels are now having an industry of their own. What if a computer chip could run at temperatures so high that would normally fry any other... |
12 September 2007
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A great obstacle has been overcome: for the first time, astronomers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge have obtained detailed space pictures from Earth, using a new camera that delivers more accurate images of stars and nebulae than even the Hubble Space Telescope.Pictures tak... |
5 September 2007
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This took everybody by surprise: the largest space gap, about a billion light years across and around 6-10bn light years from Earth. This vacuum does not only lack the matter which stars, planets and other space bodies are made up of, but also the so-called "dark matter" too."Not only has no one ever found a void thi... |
30 August 2007
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What do you know about Google Earth? Probably you can say that it is an application that allows you to view highly detailed satellite imagery of every corner of the world. Not anymore! Because Google's downloadable mapping tool is now able to provide exciting photos with the sky, allowing you to view detailed ph... |
22 August 2007
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NASA's space shuttle, Endeavour, flies in space at a speed of 15,000 miles per hour (24,000). It is the 22nd mission to the International Space Station and it was launched at 6:36 pm (2236 GMT) on Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Teacher Barbara Morgan, 55, is the incontestable star of ... |
9 August 2007
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Using the player feedback received so far, as far as SpaceForce: Rogue Universe is concerned, the game's developer, Provox has created a patch for their space saga, that will not only fix the little bugs, but also add many of the features which players have asked for:As I'm sure you want the new features fi... |
26 July 2007
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You would think that NASA, one of the best guarded government agencies in the world, would a have a security so tight, that not even a fly could pass by undetected. It may be true for flies, but it sure isn't for office equipment, that miraculously gets lost, year after year.Could a black hole explain the $94 m... |
26 July 2007
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China is the third country, after the United States and the former Soviet Union, to send an astronaut into space in a space shuttle "Made in China," in 2003. They also plan to send a probe on the Moon this year, but the latest space related issue is both weird and funny.Astronauts, or taikonauts - the Chinese term f... |
25 July 2007
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The next space station crew which is ready to embark on the journey aboard the Russian Soyuz space is full of surprises, being not only one of the most nationally and ethnically diverse, but it also features some world premieres.The first would be the fact that NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson will be the first female c... |
24 July 2007
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A new rocket was launched this week from the Alcantara launch site near the northeastern city of Sao Luis, in an effort to revive Brazil's space program, halted after a terrible accident that claimed the lives of 21 people, in 2003, including several scientists, when a satellite-launching rocket exploded at the... |
20 July 2007
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It's true, the three members of the crew on the International Space Station will have some nasty work to do during a spacewalk scheduled for July 23, because NASA realized it was time for a bit of cleaning, so they're getting rid of more than 730 kg (1600 pounds) of obsolete gear in and around the station.... |
20 July 2007
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An unidentified flying object crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home and although one possible explanation has now been provided, no one knows how it got there. It's more the case of a "falling" object instead of a "flying" one, since the brick-sized hunk of metal was not exactly self-propelled.The owner... |
20 July 2007
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Space tourism is becoming increasingly popular and some people hope it will become the next big attraction and maybe the ideal family vacation, sometime in the near future. So popular, in fact, that the ticket prices are skyrocketing.Although many space tourism companies are bragging about how future trips will get ... |
19 July 2007
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The US Department of Defense is more and more interested in using near-space balloons for red alert exercises, which can be used to temporarily restore communications in areas affected by natural disaster or industrial accidents.Actually, they don't call them "near-space" anymore, they switched to "high-altitud... |
19 July 2007
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Space tourism is becoming increasingly popular and some people hope it will become the next big attraction and maybe the ideal family vacation, sometime in the near future. Current private trips to space may cost around $20 million, so it's not an affordable ride for mere mortals, but more and more companies an... |
6 July 2007
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Astronauts will really have something to smile about. Believe it or not, nature's calls can't be ignored in space, so that's why the latest space toilet project will cost around $19 million. While normally you don't see or hear much on the news about physiological needs in space, the question of ... |
6 July 2007
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Space tourism is a refreshing alternative and even if for the moment the pioneers paid around $20 million for a trip to the International Space Station, future trips will get more affordable, so in a few decades, travel agencies around the world could advertise "space tours" and who knows, maybe even on the Moon.Th... |
4 July 2007
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Two old space probes just received new assignments, after they had fulfilled their original missions. Deep Impact and Stardust are the two robotic space travelers that NASA decided to reactivate and send to chase Comet Tempel 1.Deep Impact is a NASA space probe launched on January 12, 2005 that was designed to stud... |
4 July 2007
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Space shuttle Atlantis started the voyage home, at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, from the secondary landing site at Edwards Air Force Base, California, atop a modified 747 carrier aircraft. The shuttle was mounted on its back and left from the Mojave Desert air base at 6:05 a.m. PDT, according to Alan Brown,... |
2 July 2007
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A privately owned and built prototype space station was successfully launched into orbit from a Russian missile base Yasny, by a Dnepr booster. The base is a former strategic launch area for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs - nuclear weapons), converted to a spacecraft launch site for private companies.Big... |
29 June 2007
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