Posted on December 6 2011 by Aljazeera / IM

A NASA team has found a small planet best positioned to have liquid water but has yet to determine whether it is solid. The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientists have said. The [...]
Posted on November 15 2011 by Reuters

NASA has released new images of Earth captured during October from the International Space Station. Using both still and video cameras on board, astronauts took the images which technicians on the ground turned into digitized videos. The sequences come courtesy of the Image Science and Analysis Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center This post was [...]
Posted on October 24 2011 by VOA

Roket Soyuz menempatkan ke orbit dua satelit navigasi pertama dalam sistem GPS bagi wilayah Eropa yang diberi nama Galileo. Roket Soyuz Rusia, yang membawa satelit-satelit navigasi, telah diluncurkan dari Guyana Perancis. Ini merupakan peluncuran pertama Soyuz di luar Uni Soviet. Roket itu meluncur hari Jumat dari lokasi baru di pusat antariksa Kourou di hutan Guyana [...]
Posted on October 19 2011 by Aljazeera / IM

Company plans flights within two years from its hub in New Mexico at cost of $200,000 per passenger. The world’s first commercial hub for spacecraft has opened in the US state of New Mexico. Virgin Galactic, which is owned by UK businessman Richard Branson, plans to start offering commercial services within two years, with customers having to pay $200,000 [...]
Posted on October 18 2011 by Zenab / KB

Jepang, sebuah negara yang terkenal dengan kemampuannya untuk menciptakan segala sesuatu ini kini sedang mengembangkan sebuah teknologi baru yang unik. Para pakar teknologi di jepang berusaha keras untuk menciptakan sebuah robot tercanggih. Menurut para ilmuan di negeri matahari terbit itu, robot yang canggih bukanlah robot yang mampu bergerak dengan cepat, robot yang mampu terbang di udara [...]
Posted on October 17 2011 by Muhammad Firman / v v

Menggunakan SpaceShipTwo, NASA akan melakukan penelitian ilmiah di sub orbit Bumi. NASA dan Virgin Galactic, maskapai penerbangan luar angkasa komersial telah menandatangani perjanjian kerjasama untuk untuk melakukan riset terhadap pesawat ulang-alik komersial milik Virgin Galactic, SpaceShipTwo. Dalam perjanjian, NASA akan mendapatkan jatah ‘tiket’ penerbangan menggunakan SpaceShipTwo, sebuah pesawat yang tinggal landas dari udara yang desain [...]
Posted on October 13 2011 by Irene Klotz / Rtrs

A seven-seat space taxi backed by NASA to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station will make a high-altitude test flight next summer, officials said on Tuesday. Sierra Nevada Corp’s “Dream Chaser” space plane, which resembles a miniature space shuttle, is one of four space taxis being developed by private industry with backing from the [...]
Posted on October 11 2011 by Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times

An international research team announces it has taken a key step toward achieving its goal of a ‘prosthetic exoskeleton’ that a quadriplegic could command by brain power. In a busy lab at Duke University, Dr. Miguel Nicolelis is merging brain science with engineering in a bid to create something fantastical: a full-body prosthetic device that would allow [...]
Posted on October 4 2011 by PR / IM

DURHAM, .- Bertempat di sebuah kubah yang hampir seukuran menara Big Ben akan berisi cermin hampir setengah panjang lapangan sepakbola, ini bukanlah roket sains namun sebuah teleskop. Inilah teleskop Eropa yang sangat besar, bahkan terbesar di dunia dan menjadi “mata angkasa” yang paling tajam. Para astronom ingin mendapat penjelasan apakah memang ada kehidupan di luar [...]
Posted on September 29 2011 by Eryn Brown and Amina Khan / LA Times

Physicists at the lab near Geneva say they’ve observed subatomic particles moving faster than the speed of light. If confirmed, it would defy Einstein – and upend our understanding of physics. The globe of the CERN laboratory shines outside Geneva. A team of experimental physicists there says it has recorded neutrinos traveling 60 nanoseconds faster [...]
Posted on September 27 2011 by Bayu Galih/ v v

Kota terapung ini juga memiliki kemewahan kapal pesiar. Idenya mungkin berasal dari salah satu film James Bond, “The Spy Who Loved Me”. Namun, perusahaan Inggris BMT Nigel Gee yakin bahwa ‘kota terapung’ ini akan menjadi masa depan kehidupan di tengah laut. ‘Kota terapung’ ini memiliki 11 dek akomodasi, dan bentuknya yang bulat memungkinkan area observasi [...]
Posted on September 26 2011 by Anu Nathan / Al Jazeera

It will be joined by two more modules in the coming years to form a space station by 2020. China is preparing to launch The Heavenly Palace, an experimental unmanned spacecraft, next week. The module will form the basis for China’s own space station, and will be joined by two more modules in the coming years. [...]
Posted on September 24 2011 by esbeye/kb

Steve Jobs baru saja mengundurkan diri sebagai Kepala Eksekutif Korporat (CEO) Apple Inc. Sepanjang sejarah perusahaan tersebut, tidak selalu produk yang mereka hasilkan mampu diterima dengan sangat baik oleh pasar — seperti yang saat ini melanda iPad, iPhone, dan iPod. Setidaknya ada tujuh produk gagal yang pernah dibesut Apple saat Steve Jobs masih berkarya di [...]
Posted on September 24 2011 by CNN/ IM

Miami – A satellite on the verge of falling back to Earth appears to have begun slowing down but will not re-enter the atmosphere until late Friday or early Saturday U.S. time, according to NASA. The United States is once again an unlikely but potential target for the 26 pieces of the Upper Atmosphere Research [...]
Posted on September 23 2011 by KB / IM

London — Dunia menjadi ‘tegang’ saat kabel bawah laut pembawa sinyal internet ke seluruh dunia terputus. Jika digambar, peta menakjubkan kabel bawah laut ini pun tercipta. Dunia seolah menjadi tegang ketika sambungan internetnya terputus seperti pada saat kabel bawah laut penghubung Eropa dan Timur Tengah terputus tahun lalu atau saat jangkar kapal ‘menggores’ kabel bawah [...]
Posted on September 20 2011 by CNN

Scientists are hoping genetically modified cats will deepen their understanding of the AIDS virus. This post was submitted by CNN.