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Oh Well, Looks Like Rage Probably Ain't Happening

Mike Fahey — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:40:00 EDT

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Oh don't worry, id's latest and greatest is still scheduled to come out next week; it's premise just got a little bit weaker, as NASA reveals there are fewer apocalypse-causing asteroids rocketing through space than we once thought. More »

Gamers Discover Two New Planets by Playing a Browser Game

Kirk Hamilton — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:00:00 EDT

It's been a banner week for gamers and "doing things that count in the real world." First, they solve a decades-old scientific AIDS stumper using Foldit, and now, they've discovered two new possibly Earth-like planets. More »

The Shuttle Has Landed...

Brian Crecente — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:30:00 EDT

Many of us watched as the space shuttle Atlantis rocketed into space earlier this month, marking the last time a space shuttle will ever leave the Earth. Early this morning Atlantis came home. More »

Mario Bids Bon Voyage to the Space Shuttle

Owen Good — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:00:00 EDT

So you're attending the final launch in the U.S. space shuttle program's 30-year history. How would you document the moment? One guy whipped out his 3DS and AR cards and put Mario among those in attendance. More »

Five Triumphant Moments in Space Shuttle Gaming

Mike Fahey — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:00:00 EDT

Now that the final mission of NASA's space shuttle program is underway, we thought we'd take a look at some of the games influenced by the primitive spacecraft over the years. More »

Deep Space Mystery Solved Using 1970s Computer Graphics Technique

Joel Johnson — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:40:00 EDT

Extra-solar probes Pioneer 10 and 11 have been confusing astrophysicists for the last decade: they're slowing down a lot more than we'd expected as they're leaving the solar system. The slowing has become know as the "Pioneer Anomaly." (But you probably know it by the popular formula, "Ol' (8.74±1.33)×10^−10 ms^−2".) More »

Mercury Didn't Have A Satellite, So We Gave It One

Mike Fahey — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:30:13 EDT

The planet closest to the sun better be on its best behavior, because we're watching it. As of last night NASA's Messenger probe is the first man-made satellite ever to orbit the planet Mercury. What do we hope to find? More »

Witness The Awesome Power Of A Runaway Star

Mike Fahey — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:00:00 EST

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer captured this amazing image of the star Zeta Ophiuchi plowing through a radiant dust cloud at 54,000 miles per hour. Why is Zeta Ophiuchi on the run? More »

Scientist Plan Probe To Study Uranus

Mike Fahey — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:30:00 EST

Uranus is a cold and distant world that hasn't been seen up close for 25 years. British scientists propose a plan to launch a satellite in that could shed new light on the mysteries of the frozen planet. More »

Explorer Richard Garriott Didn't Expect NASA's Discovery, Not In His Lifetime

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:00:00 EST

Richard Garriott created the blockbuster game Ultima Online, paid his way onto a Russian rocket and has traveled deep beneath Antarctica. So, yeah, he's pumped about today's NASA news. More »

Poison-Based Bacteria Redefines Life As We Know It

Mike Fahey — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:30:00 EST

Arsenic is an element that is deadly to most living creatures, but bacteria living in California's Lake Mono thrive on it. Today NASA explains how those poison-eating organisms are changing the way we search for extraterrestrial life. More »

NASA Discovers Alien Life In California

Mike Fahey — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:30:00 EST

Today NASA will hold a press conference revealing to the world the discovery of a form of life unlike any other on Earth. What twisted alien landscape gave birth to such a life form? Try California. More »

Has NASA Discovered Life On Saturn's Moon?

Mike Fahey — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:30:00 EST

This Thursday NASA is holding a press conference to discuss an astrobiology finding that will "impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life". Have we discovered alien life within our own solar system? More »

Minecraft's Latest Megaobject: The Earth

Owen Good — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:00:00 EST

Object building, especially megaobject building, is a side pursuit in Minecraft's classic creative mode that's gotten so much attention that folks who haven't played the game don't know of its survivalist objectives. The latest doozy: Earth. More »

James Cameron Is Earth's Official Spokesperson

Mike Fahey — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:30:00 EDT

After showing us through the magic of 3D how human beings could potentially screw up an entirely new planet, James Cameron has signed on with NASA to help show how the agency is keeping us from screwing up our own. More »

NASA's Robotic Spaceman Has A Twitter Addiction

Mike Fahey — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:30:00 EDT

Meet Robonaut 2, the most dexterous humanoid robot in existence, soon to be the first humanoid robot in space, and you'll be able to hear all about it through his Twitter account. More »

NASA Invites Gamers To Explore Moonbase Alpha

Mike Fahey — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:20:00 EDT

While NASA might not be returning to the real moon any time soon, the virtual moon is anyone's game in Moonbase Alpha, a multiplayer lunar exploration adventure game, now available for free download via Steam. More »

NASA Goes Massively Multiplayer With Astronaut

Mike Fahey — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:30:00 EST

NASA wanted a massively multiplayer online game, and now they're getting one, signing three separate development studios to work on Astronaut: Moon, Mars, and Beyond. More »

NASA Wants Second Life On The Moon

Mark Wilson — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:40:00 EDT

A sense of community is important to NASA. That's why they opened a NASA mansion for parties and just hanging out, hacking software and making Uranus jokes. But the NASA mansion was only good during the night. NASA's Andrew Hoppin explains how Second Life allowed connections during the day.

...we got employees from all around NASA - the 10 geographies around the country - showing up at these Tuesday afternoon meetings. We formed a community of NASA and non-NASA, started coworking in Second Life. Cultural change started to take place at the agency...

But Hoppin would like to see this cultural change happen far, far outside the agency: More »

NASA Wants MMO

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:20:19 EST

NASA doesn't just explore space, it also exploring video gaming! NASA is shifting though proposals from companies keen on creating a MMO that will let students create phony experiments and test out different NASA careers. Says NASA: More »

Carmack On NASA's Proposed MMO

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:00:13 EDT

As far as geek gods go, John Carmack is right up there. Not only has he programmed games like DOOM and Quake, but he's also into engineering rockets. Real rockets. So when NASA announced that it will be developing a 3 million dollar MMO for the youth, game site GigaGamez sent Carmack an email. His response? More »

Call of Duty 3 Packed With NASA Goodness

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:22:51 EDT

What's the difference between Call of Duty 2 and its sequel? NASA, that's what. Game site 360 MONSTER got a sneak peak at the eagerly awaited FPS and reports that not only can you kill Nazis taking a leak (awesome!), but the game was made with NASA technology. Meaning uniforms were donned by real people and then scanned by the same scanner which looks for flaws in the foam on the bottom of the space shuttle. What does that mean? No clue! But it sure sounds neat. Brian Ashcraft More »

Using Video Games To Treat ADHD

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:40:22 EST

Man, when is that pizza going to get here? Gotta finish washing those dishes. Sorry, what was I talking about? Oh, right — ADHD. I know that was a horrible "joke". Do I get a pass if I think I might have ADHD myself? If I do have the disorder, it appears that I'll be able to treat myself with videogames — one of the very things I've suspected aided in my ADHD development. More »

Video Games Treating ADD?

lsmith — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:40:54 EST

OK, ignore that the ZDNet piece on video games and ADD calls Sony's Ratchet & Clank, Hatchet & Clank. Let's not get too sidetracked. Focus. The piece is on some tech that NASA created called Smart BrainGames, which monitors the brain waves of kids while they game. But, folks, like the Price is Right, that's not all. There's a box that hooks up to the PS2 from the kid's brain that measures how much he's focusing, the more he focuses, say the faster his car in Burnout goes. Brains controlling video games. The future is nigh! More »