Matt Cutts Calls For "CEO Of Google" Ideas
If you’ve ever wanted to have a say in what Google does next, a visit to Matt Cutts’s blog may be in order. This afternoon, Cutts published a post asking readers what actions they’d take as Google’s CEO, and although no official contest is in effect (and Eric Schmidt’s definitely not stepping aside), the question […]
Beautiful: Fiery Spacecraft Re-entry Goes Viral [VIDEO]
Two days ago, the Hayabusa, a Japanese unmanned spacecraft, finally returned from its seven-year, 1.25 billion-mile trip. It plunged to the earth in a beautiful blaze, which NASA…
Send Your Face To Space on the Next Shuttle
It might be too late for most of us to become astronauts, but thanks to NASA our visages can at least make it into space. Simply upload a…
NASA Releases Amazing New Footage of Our Dynamic Sun [VIDEO]
NASA was been wowing us with beautiful imagery from Mars and of our own planet’s volcanic activity, and now the space agency has released some spectacular photos and videos of our sun; we’ve included a few below. The recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory has been taking some unique portraits of our solar companion using four […]
Iceland Volcano Satellite Image Shows Massive Ash Cloud [PIC]
A volcano in Iceland with probably the coolest and most formidable name ever, Eyjafjallajokull, erupted this Wednesday, April 14. As we wrote earlier, European travelers have since been stranded around the world — including the Norwegian prime minister, whose trusty iPad is thankfully keeping his country’s government afloat. NASA’s Terra satellite captured the above image […]
NASA Sending Weight-Lifting Humanoid Robot Into Space [PICS]
Not too long ago it was predominantly the blue collar sector worried about being replaced by robotics, but it appears even astronauts have some competition from our future metallic overlords. NASA will be sending humanoid robot Robonaut2 to the International Space Station to work alongside its human comrades on the next (and theoretically final) space […]