Month: February 2013
Silicon brains to oversee satellites
A beautiful and expensive sight: upwards of €6 million-worth of silicon wafers, crammed with the complex…
Silicon wafers etched with integrated circuits for space missions
A beautiful and expensive sight: upwards of €6 million-worth of silicon wafers, crammed with the complex…
NASA Designs New Space Telescope Optics
Although hundreds of planets orbiting other stars have been discovered in the past 15 years, we…
NASA to Chronicle Close Earth Flyby of Asteroid
NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST) on Friday, Feb.…
NASA Spinoff 2012 Features New Space Tech Bettering Your Life Today
A plant texts a farmer to say it needs more water. An invisible coating scrubs pollutants…
Interviewing Mohawk Guy
Bobak Ferdowsi, Flight Director, Mars Curiosity Rover, answers questions from Scholastic News young reporter Emily Shao…
NASA’s Chandra Suggests Rare Explosion Created Our Galaxy’s Youngest Black Hole
New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the…