Carnegie Mellon University's Robot Hall of Fame inducted the four members of its 2007 class. This is the first year that more of the inductees are real than are science fictional. They include...
The Hubble Space Telescope has found some of the strongest evidence yet for the existence of dark matter. This article is NASA's press release on the discovery.
Updating earlier stories on Stephen Hawking's zero-g flight and Charles Simonyi's two-week tourist trip to the International Space Station. Both flights have been successfully completed, and...
A potential Earth-like planet has been discovered orbiting the near-Earth red dwarf Gliese 581. Its surface gravity should be about 1.5g, and its temperature...
New York City's Philoctetes Ccenter is hosting a free roundtable discussion of "Extraterrestrial Life" with panelists author David Marusek, NASA Chief Historian Stephen J. Dick,...
Software millionaire Charles Simonyi became the fifth paying space tourist when he lifted off today for the International Space Station. He will spend more than a week...
The South Korean government is writing a Robot Ethics Charter to govern human-robot interactions. South Korea expects a robot in every home within 15 years.
The New York Space Society presents previews of the upcoming documentary film Saving Hubble, followed by a viewing party for the total lunar eclipse, all on 3 March.
