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NASA recently rocketed three HTC Nexus One smartphones into orbit and the stuff they're sending back is pretty damn cool.The phones were launched as part of what is called the PhotoSat Project. It’s run on the premise of combining low-cost with high-performance. It showcases “off-the-shelf, commercially available tech.” The ...

Billionaire entrepreneur and CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, has his sights firmly set on Mars. Yes you read that correctly. After the very successful venture with NASA ferrying International Space Station equipment on his company's Dragon spacecraft, Musk has futuristic plans to colonise Mars."At Mars, you can start a ...

Unless you've just woken up from a coma, or have been tracking dangerous animals in wild over the past few days, you're probably aware that NASA's Curiosity Rover landed on Mars.Millions watched the live stream, the NASA geeks went wild and people sent out some funny tweets. Standing out ...

Take a moment to reflect on what I'm about to tell you. Just 30 minutes after it landed, the Mars Curiosity Rover sent back its first images from the Martian surface.Thirty minutes? That's how long it takes some of us to eat our breakfast cereal in the morning.The ...

Attention, earthlings: the Space X Dragon capsule is on its way home. Well, if by 'way' you mean hurtling through the atmosphere and 'home' you mean a splash-landing in the Pacific Ocean.The first privately funded and built space craft to dock at the International Space Station (ISS) left earth just ...

Wow. Just wow. There's nothing quite like a view of our humble little planet taken from space to give you a sense of perspective.You can't get much clearer perspective than this stunning 121 Megapixel shot of the Earth taken by a Russian weather satellite. The image, which is the ...

The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) has put out a call on Facebook and Twitter for the country’s citizens to have a say in the drafting of the National Space Programme (NSP).According to agency’s website, the aim of the NSP is to "make South Africa a leading ...

As NASA winds down its Space Shuttle programme, it is using social media to grant the public unprecedented access to the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.Having already retired the Space Shuttle Discovery, this is the last mission for Endeavour.The public access currently given to the Endeavour via ...

So what were you expecting? A real-life alien to waltz out onto stage? Pictures of life lived happily on another planet? Intense speculation and wild theorising came to an end after NASA's press conference to announce the discovery of an arsenic-eating bacterium.The space agency had created monumental online buzz ...