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...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:21:52 GMT

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...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:16:25 GMT

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 roverto 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 Tranor, 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 Tranor up to an av...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:48:50 GMT

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:48:50 GMT

By Elizabeth HowellSpace.comGluttonous black holes in the center of some galaxies could be precursors to the brightest objects in the known universe.A recently proposed type of galaxy with an overwhelmingly large black hole in its center could give astronomers a better understanding of the formation of quasars bright objects in galaxies with supermassive black holes. The centers of these obese b...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:32:10 GMT

By Charles Q. ChoiLiveScience The uppermost reaches of the ocean could be rapidly scanned in groundbreaking high detail using acoustic techniques, researchers say. The method resembles that employed to probe the deep Earth.For more than a century, geologists have used sound waves to investigate Earth's interior, analyzing how these waves reflect off different layers of rock. Recently, such seismic...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:37:18 GMT

By Robert Z. PearlmanSpace.comThe circumstances surrounding the death of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, who was killed in a 1968 jet crash, have long been clouded in theories and rumors. Now, the first man to walk in space says he can reveal what really happened to his friend and fellow Russian cosmonaut.Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first man to leave a spacecraft and float in the ...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:37:17 GMT

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...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:53:27 GMT

If you're up to no good in this pocket of northeast Ohio, especially in a witless way, you're risking not only jail time or a fine but a swifter repercussion with a much larger audience: You're in for a social media scolding from police Chief David Oliver and some of his small department's 49,000 Facebook fans.And Oliver does not mince words.In postings interspersed with community messages and...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:20:13 GMT

As if often the case with next-generation consoles, Microsoft irked some gamers when it declared that the Xbox One won't be able to run old Xbox 360 games. But what about its compatibility with the Xbox 360 in its entirety? Now that's a console of a different color. Speaking in an interview for the Reddit Games YouTube channel, Xbox Live director of programming Larry Hryb (better known by his onli...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:47:19 GMT

By Elizabeth HowellLiveScience In the next few decades, teams of roving robots will take to the seas, the air and other hard-to-reach spots, communicating with one another and working to solve scientific problems, according to a Canadian scientist.Such flotillas of smart machinescould peer at coral reefs from underwater and in the air, or perhaps explore terrain that is difficult for humans to re...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:25:07 GMT

After four years of altering grades using credentials gained with keylogger equipment installed on professors' keyboards, three Purdue University students were finally busted when one of those professors complained that one of his passwords mysteriously changed.According to court documents made public last week, the first grade change happened in December 2008, while the last occurred in December ...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:57:20 GMT