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Terrafugia’s TF-X concept flying car makes every road its launch pad

... awaiting the day we can take our personal vehicles to the sky, zooming away towards the clouds to pick up a pizza or ... vehicle. Not surprisingly, the Transition isn't zipping around our skies, but that hasn't stopped the company from unveiling its latest ...

Japan says Boeing 787s can resume flight after modifications

, Apr 26th 2013 Discuss [0]

...recurrence of similar problems." Before the planes can take to the skies, batteries must be changed and an approved system must be installed...on the plane. Estimates have it that the jets will be sky-ready by summertime, with All Nippon Airways saying it'll ...

LED streetlamp innovation aims to reduce light pollution

, Apr 24th 2013 Discuss [5]

...will only leak a tiny amount of light into the night sky or surrounding objects. According to the New Jersey Astronomical Association... confused and sent off course, turtles who require the night sky to navigate become lost on their way towards the ...

ESA mashes telescopes for Horsehead Nebula fly-through video

, Apr 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

...Nebula captured by Hubble last week with ground-based images and sky surveys, with a mixture of visible, near-infrared, and... and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), and the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2) all contributed. The Nebula itself is ...

Universe is 80 million years older than previously thought

, Mar 21st 2013 Discuss [2]

... to scan the "cosmic microwave background" radiation spreading throughout the sky, which is leftover heat from the earliest moments of the ... million. It has spent 15 months so far mapping the sky and studying how our universe began. The telescope will stay ...

Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol soars onto iOS

, May 10th 2013 Discuss [1]

...called Ace Patrol. The game puts players behind the controls of World War I biplane as they battle to take control of the skies. The game is described as a strategic aerial combat title and will work on both the iPhone and the iPad. Players will...

First Google Glass game project StarFinder gets early demo

, May 9th 2013 Discuss [0]

The first official game for Google Glass has been revealed, a gamification of Google Sky that pits users of the wearable against the heavens. The title, revealed by developers dSky9 this week at Mobile Outlook 2013, challenges Glass wearers to identify ...

Google Timelapse shows a changing Earth in animated form

, May 9th 2013 Discuss [2]

... Dubai, Las Vegas, and the Columbia glacier retreat. And yes, Timelapse will allow you to visit your hometown to see what it looked like from the sky back in 1984. It's certainly surprising to see how much the Earth has changed over the last 28 years.

Tomorrow’s annular eclipse to be live broadcasted online

... out of the sun. And it is a wonder of modern science and mathematics that you can travel halfway around the world, arriving on a normal day with blue sky, but then, on schedule, the lunar silhouette breaks up the sunlight." [via National Geographic]

Manned Mars missions in 20 years say space experts

, May 6th 2013 Discuss [6]

...way of decelerating since the planet's thin atmosphere lacks the friction to brake a capsule. One possibility is the same sort of sky-crane system as NASA and the Jet Propulsion Lab used to deploy Curiosity, the robotic rover that has been drilling ...

Boeing X-51A WaveRider achieves longest hypersonic flight ever

...'s unmanned X-51A WaveRider broke the record for the longest hypersonic flight ever, doing so on its fourth successful jaunt in the sky. The total scramjet power flight time clocked in at 3.5-minutes, with its speed topping out at a neck-breaking Mach 5.1,...

Pilot to fly across US on solar-powered plane

, May 1st 2013 Discuss [1]

... it going for a prolonged period of time. The team of two tested-flew the plane in 2010, and it was able to stay in the sky for 26 hours straight. However, only Piccard will be making the journey across the country, but it won't be as fast as what a ...

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