Apr 30, 2014
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the coldest “brown dwarf” known – a dim, star-like body that, surprisingly, is as frosty as Earth’s North Pole. Images from...
Apr 2, 2014
The length of the melt season for Arctic sea ice is growing by several days each decade, and an earlier start to this period is allowing the Arctic Ocean to absorb enough additional solar radiation in some places to melt as much as four feet of the Arctic ice cap’s...
Mar 28, 2014
Facebook has announced a plan which could use aeroplanes and satellites to provide Internet connectivity. The company’s new Connectivity Lab boasts a team that is working on new aerospace and communication technologies to advance the Internet.org mission of improving...
Mar 28, 2014
NASA has released an image of a comet that, on 19 October, will pass within 84 000 miles of Mars – less than half the distance between Earth and our moon. The image on the left, captured on 11 March by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, shows comet C/2013 A1,...
Mar 20, 2014
NASA and space agencies around the world are preparing for the third annual International Space Apps Challenge on 12 and 13 April. Participants will develop mobile applications, software, hardware, data visualisation and platform solutions that could contribute to...
