A team of scientists is currently working with NASA to develop a new form of space propulsion technology based on positrons. This revolutionary antimatter engine will require only a few milligrams of positrons to send a spaceship to Mars. Facing ...

The Space Elevator concept appeared for the first time in 1895 when Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky considered a tower that would reach all the way into space. In the 20th century, Arthur C. Clarke introduced the concept of a space ...

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae Galaxies, named for their antenna- or tail-like appendages, is the sharpest yet of this merging spiral pair. Billions of stars will be formed during the course of the collision. One ...

Mars Polar Cap – This image of the polar cap on Mars was created this past month from combined images from the NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s wide-angle camera on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor. It is a composite mosaic of four ...

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has made the first measurements of the day and night temperatures of a planet outside our solar system. The infrared observatory revealed that the giant, gaseous, Jupiter-like planet revolving around its nearby sun is always as ...

In two years time a technology that will enable users to speak without uttering a sound might become commercially available. The ability to communicate silently could assist us in every day situations such as a phone conversation on a crowded ...

The launch in mid-July of the first inflatable space habitat marked another milestone in the commercialization of space, and a step closer to the dream of a space hotel to be realized next decade. This article will review the origins ...

Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets (an Illustration picture) – NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during a ...

Nobel Prize in Physics – According to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the 2006 Nobel in Physics will be awarded to John C. Mather of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (on the left) and George F. Smoot of ...

Space Shuttle Atlantis – This overhead image of the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-115 was recorded by a crew member onboard the International Space Station. The cargo bay of the shuttle, which will later be used to resume the construction of ...