A tankless toilet so inspired Japan's Panasonic Corp. that the company will end their production of water-logged toilets and focus on the design alternative.
Trevor Stokes
Jan 26, 2012
Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich called on Wednesday for a base on the moon and an expanded federal purse for prize money to stimulate private-sector space projects.
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Jan 26, 2012
The 2012 solar storm may have created a spectacular show of northern lights for sky watchers, but it caused great inconvenience for airlines, such as Delta, Quantas and Air Canada, forcing them to divert some of their Arctic flights.
Ceylan Yeginsu
Jan 25, 2012
Several airlines were forced to divert flight patterns as radiation from a massive solar storm hit earth. The 2012 storm is the biggest in nearly a decade, according to scientists at NASA.
Mark Johanson
Jan 25, 2012
The material from Sunday's solar storm created a spectacular art show of northern lights on Tuesday. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center said the the solar storm was the strongest in more than eight years.
Laura Matthews
Jan 25, 2012
A small island has been born in the Red Sea, following a undersea volcanic eruption that occurred in mid-December, 2011.
Sanskrity Sinha
Jan 24, 2012
A massive explosion on the sun's surface has released a current of charged plasma particles toward Earth, which according to scientists, wouldn't jeopardize life but could disrupt satellite communications briefly. This is the strongest solar radiation storm since 2005.
Amrutha Gayathri
Jan 24, 2012
Sun flares that Tuesday will bombard the Earth with solar radiation will be the strongest storm since May 2005 and has apocalyptic enthusiasts buzzing for signs of the end of the world.
Trevor Stokes
Jan 23, 2012
Moon colonies may exist for the next generation if officials with international space agencies have their way, according to reports.
Trevor Stokes
Jan 23, 2012
The Soviet Union’s landing probe, Venus-13, detected the presence of several objects resembling living organisms, on the surface of the planet Venus in 1982, according to research published in the current issue of Solar System Research.
Sanskrity Sinha
Jan 23, 2012
Kim Dotcom, also known as Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Investor, spent his 38th birthday on Saturday in a New Zealand jail after 70 police personnel raided his country estate at the request of the U.S. FBI, which alleges Dotcom masterminded a criminal -- and highly profitable -- copyright-infringement operation.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 21, 2012
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is buying some of the debt of hedge fund manager Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. as the ailing wireless-network company runs short of cash, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 20, 2012
The global average temperature last year was the ninth-warmest in the modern meteorological record, continuing a trend linked to greenhouse gases that saw nine of the 10 hottest years occurring since the year 2000, NASA scientists said on Thursday.
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Jan 20, 2012
Space Exploration Technologies, a startup space transportation firm hired by NASA to fly cargo to the International Space Station, is delaying a planned February 7 test flight to allow more time to prepare for the mission, a company spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
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Jan 19, 2012
Scientists have confirmed that a piece of rock which fell into Tissint, Morocco on July 18, 2011 was a pure Martian meteorite. The fireball was spotted in the North Africa sky last summer but discovered six month later.
Surojit Chatterjee
Jan 18, 2012
Brownsville, Texas, has some lessons to teach the country when it comes to creating jobs: it expects to add 5,000 in the next 10 years. How can other cities follow its lead?
IBT Staff Reporter
Jan 18, 2012
Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corp., better known as SpaceX, has announced a delay in its mission to send its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station (ISS).
sangeeta mukherjee
Jan 17, 2012
A stranded Russian science satellite, loaded with rocket fuel for a roundtrip mission to Mars, is expected to plunge back to Earth on Sunday, but officials said on Friday they don't know when or where it will hit.
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Jan 16, 2012
Phobos-Grunt -- a stranded Russian science satellite loaded with enough rocket fuel for a round-trip mission to Mars -- is expected to plunge back to Earth either Sunday or Monday, but officials don't know when or where it, or its remnants, will hit.
J.J. McGrath
Jan 15, 2012
NASA is questioning whether James Lovell, an Apollo 13 commander, has the right to sell a 70-page checklist that contains his handwritten calculations that were vital in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth.
Monami Thakur
Jan 08, 2012
The Quadrantids meteor shower won't be the only chance sky gazers get to view meteor showers in 2012. Below is a schedule of dates of expected peak meteor showers from NASA.
Trevor Stokes
Jan 04, 2012
There are countless celestial bodies deep inside of Cosmos, which stimulate our imagination. Here are two images released by NASA, which reflect the fight between the Good and Evil in space - and they are both watching us from far, far away.
Surojit Chatterjee
Jan 03, 2012