By Clara MoskowitzSpace.comNASA has picked eight Americans, a mix of scientists and military pilots, to begin training for future space missions that may one day launch them all the way to Mars. The new class includes four men and four women who will join the 49 active astronauts at the agency's astronaut corps at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.The new U.S. space travelers, which NASA unveile...

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:38:11 GMT

Laser-scanning technology reveals that the Cambodian lost city of Mahendraparvata, dating back to a time before Angkor Wat, was much more extensive than previously thought. The latest word about the high-tech hunt for hidden ruins came over the weekend in an on-the-scene report from Australia's Fairfax Media.Archaeologists have known about the Buddhist-influenced city, situated about 25 miles (40 ...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:21:30 GMT

By Robert Z. PearlmanSpace.comNASA's Mars rover Curiosity, which for almost a year has been driving across the Red Planet, will be the next model to roll off LEGO's CUUSOO production line, the toy company announced on Friday.The Denmark-based LEGO Group chose a fan-built model of the car-size rover to be the next release in its CUUSOO line of building brick toys."We learned that this product has n...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:59:45 GMT

The world's largest solar boat, a catamaran called Tûranor, reached New York City Monday afternoon, docking at the North Cove Marina in downtown Manhattan at about 5 p.m. New York is the boat's sixth stop in a trans-Atlantic expedition that began in March in the south of France.The boat's upper decks are covered in 5,554 square feet of solar paneling. The photovoltaic cells get Tûranor up to an av...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:48:50 GMT