Obama should have talked about NSA in address, say trade groups
Technology trade groups faulted President Obama for not using his State of the Union address Tuesday night to address domestic and international concerns over the National Security Agency's...
View ArticleHunting for Earth 2.0: NASA finds 715 new planets
NASA announced the discovery of 715 planets orbiting 305 stars, revealing multi-planet systems much like our own solar system.
View ArticleDuck! Just kidding. Asteroid to pass safely past Earth today
An asteroid is flying relatively closely past Earth today, NASA reported. No need to duck or take to the root cellar, though.
View ArticleAnother asteroid buzzes by Earth today
An asteroid measuring about 25 feet across will whizz safely past Earth today, the second such object in two days,
View ArticleNASA tries long-distance repair of Mars orbiter
NASA scientists are working to bring the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been orbiting the Red Planet for eight years, back online after the spacecraft suffered a glitch Sunday.
View ArticleA tech effort seeks to make climate change up close and personal
The White House, tech companies and others believe more Americans would take action on climate change if its affects could be visualized up close, down to its impact house by house.
View ArticleDespite rocky U.S.-Russian relations, NASA astronaut set to fly with cosmonauts
Despite growing disagreement between the United State and Russia over the latter's actions in Ukraine, a NASA astronaut and two cosmonauts are slated to fly tonight to to the International Space...
View ArticleAstronauts still orbiting Earth after planned 6-hour trip to space station...
One NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are still orbiting the Earth in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft nearly 24 hours after lifting off on what was expected to be a six-hour trip.
View ArticleGoogle tech to bring 3D mapping smarts to NASA's space station robots
NASA and Google are working together to send new 3D technology aloft to map the International Space Station.
View ArticleDARPA unveils hack-proof drone tech
In a claim reminiscent of Oracle Corp.'s 'unbreakable' marketing campaign of several years ago, the U.S. military has built what it calls a hack proof drone.
View ArticleRoads in the future will need data standards as well as signs, says DOT's CIO
Engineers, auto makers and U.S. transportation officials who gathered at the White House's SmartAmerica conference this week showed various systems and technologies that may be used to make driving...
View ArticleDems' plan would force FCC to ban Internet fast lanes
Democrat lawmakers plan to keep the FCC from allowing ISPs from offering higher-bandwidth connections for some Internet traffic over others.
View ArticleNASA: Finding life on other planets is within our grasp
Many scientists believe we're not alone in the universe, and NASA researchers say discovering if that's true is within their reach.
View ArticleMars rover Curiosity's top 5 scientific discoveries
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has already achieved its initial mission, proving that the Red Planet could have once sustained life, but one scientist says its greatest accomplishments could be in the...
View ArticleNASA spacecraft en route to historic look at mysterious Pluto
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft crosses Neptune's orbit today and is speeding along a path that will give scientists their first real information about the distant and still mysterious Pluto.
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