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IEEE Spectrum | 4 hours ago

Video: Throwable Robot, Roomba-Riding Humanoid, and More from ICRA 2012

...montage after the break. The robots at the exhibit hall included the DARPA ARM (the robot pictured above), NASA's Robonaut2, Willow Garage's PR2, Intuitive Surgical's Da Vinci, and...

New Kerala | 8 hours ago

NASA estimates how long Titan's chemical factory has been in business

...a thin, detached haze layer (purple line) that appears to float above Titan's main atmospheric haze. The Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera took the image on July 3, 2004. "Under...

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Reuters | 9 hours ago

GLOBAL MARKETS-Markets regain ground but still edgy over Greece

...euro supports gold * China growth stimulus hopes offer some bright spot * European shares likely to fall By Chikako Mogi TOKYO, May 21 (Reuters) - Markets recovered some ground on...

ABC | 9 hours ago

Private mission to space station scrubbed half a second before liftoff

...could come early Tuesday morning SpaceX's launch of the first private spacecraft bound for the International Space Station has been rescheduled for next week after the mission was...

"Under our baseline model assumptions, the methane age is capped at 1.6 billion years, or about a third the age of Titan itself," Nixon, who is stationed at NASA Goddard, said. "However, if methane is also allowed to escape from the top of the atmosphere, as some previous work has suggested, the age must be much shorter - perhaps only 10 million years - to be compatible with observations,"

NASA estimates how long Titan's chemical factory has been in business New Kerala | 8 hours ago

Orange County Register | 13 hours ago

The space shuttle is quieter than my kids

...safari in Africa, where their howls and screeches seemed perfectly normal If you've ever gone to see a space shuttle land, accompanied by a Rolling Stones concert, with a NASCAR race in...

MSNBC | 13 hours ago

Sun, moon and Earth line up for spectacular 'Ring of Fire'

An annular solar eclipse occurs as the moon passes between the earth and the sun as partially seen at sunrise, May 21, from the coastal township of Gumaca, Quezon province, Philippines.

Reuters | 15 hours ago

GLOBAL MARKETS-Markets on edge over Greece despite G8 pledge

...lows, yen near three-month highs vs dollar * Nikkei seen falling, Australian shares seen flat By Chikako Mogi TOKYO, May 21 (Reuters) - Markets remained cautious on Monday...

Los Angeles Times | 1 day ago

SpaceX aborts first private launch to space station

...ready to take on the task of hauling cargo for the space agency now that the space shuttle fleet has been retired. NASA has begun hiring privately funded start-up companies for...

NDTV | 2 days ago

SpaceX aborts launch to International Space Station

...been able to send supply ships to the ISS. The United States had that capacity too, with its iconic space shuttle that long served as part astronaut bus, part delivery truck for the...

Chicago Tribune | 2 days ago

SpaceX's historic launch to space station scrubbed at last second

...ready to take on the task of hauling cargo for the space agency now that the space shuttle fleet has been retired. NASA has already begun hiring privately funded start-up companies for...

MSNBC | 2 days ago

Stakes high for 1st private rocket launch to space station

...time in history a private company, Space Exploration Technologies, will fly on a NASA mission to deliver much-needed supplies to the International Space Station. NBC's Tom Costello reports.