Scientist at Work | Peggy Whitson: Testing Limits, 220 Miles Above Earth
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Peggy Whitson lived on the International Space Station for six months in 2002. She is now preparing for her second tour in space.
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NASA scientists announced Monday the successful testing of the first nanotechnology-based electronic device to fly in space.  National Aeronautics and Space Administration researchers said the test showed the nanosensor could monitor trace gases inside a spaceship.
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The US official who said the air at Ground Zero in New York was safe after 9/11 says she acted on scientific advice.
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Did you know that the Earth is constantly humming ie it produces a low frequency noise which can be picked up in the 2 to 7 mHz (millihertz) range, a range far below the one human ears can detect and scientist have now found that it is the energy produced
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Imagine rewiring your house while living in it. Now imagine you're not even sure the new power system will work and you're 220 miles above the Earth. That's the scenario facing astronauts on the second and third spacewalks of the space shuttle Discovery's mission to the international space station, a two-part process scheduled for Thursday and Saturday.
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Scientists prepare to launch high-tech origami planes from 250 miles above the Earth
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Erano responsabili del progetto Nasa che misurÃ² la radiazione cosmicaa microonde. Calcoli fondamentali per verificare la teoria del Big Bang                                            Il Nobel per la fisica agli americani Mather e Smoot
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and possibly help future scientists determine how to keep such space rocks from colliding with Earth. impactor on July 4, 2005, and the comet&#39;s rocky part will hit it at a speed of 23,800 miles an hour (10.
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Andy Cheng has seen it all. The scientist from Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Lab has worked on the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the Cassini mission to Saturn, the NEAR mission to asteroid 433 Eros and many others during his decades-long career.
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WASHINGTON: NASA will today conduct the final and fastest test flight of its pilotless X-43A hypersonic research aircraft, aiming to send it zooming across the Pacific Ocean at about 10 times the speed of sound -- almost 3.2 kilometers (two miles) per
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To be perched under pollution-free, open skies on the Antarctic Plateau 3.2 kilometers (10,400 feet) above sea level is a professional stargazer's dream come true, even if the cold is deep enough to freeze your blood.
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Tests by a team from the University of New South Wales, reported in the journal âNatureâ this week [16 September], show that the âDome Câ site in the Australian Antarctic Territory is by far the best place ever tested on Earth for doing infrared
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U.S. government scientists say they've discovered satellite technology that overcomes an obstacle to measuring atmospheric water vapor from space.
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A biologist investigates claims that animals flourished in the radiated 40-mile-diameter âexclusion zone.â
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By Rasha Madkour  HOUSTON  --  Imagine rewiring your house while living in it. Now imagine you're not even sure the new power system will work and you're 220 miles above the Earth.
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Utah flying munition caught on camera Once in a while, something really interesting pops up on Google Earth, and we're obliged today to reader Christopher Wagner for pointing us the direction of this spendid find in the skies above Utah:â¦
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It's a curious fact to know about yourself &#151; how much wind you can withstand before you get knocked off your feet.