In Real Life

NASA’s Ringworlds Look A Bit Like Halo

Kotaku AU

A while back the big brains over at NASA thought that Space colonies might look a bit like the above. Our first thought? Stop ripping off Halo you idiots. Our second thought – we’re idiots. Maybe Bungie were ripping off NASA…


March 19, 2011
News

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

The planet closest to the sun better be on its best behaviour, 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?


January 26, 2011
In Real Life

Witness The Awesome Power Of A Runaway Star

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?


January 13, 2011
In Real Life

Scientists Plan Probe To Study Uranus

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.


December 15, 2010
News

NASA Tables Plan To Expose Monkeys To Gamma Radiation

Protests from animal rights activists have put a moratorium on NASA plans to expose 27 squirrel monkeys to gamma-ray radiation. Researchers hoped to simulate the effects of space radiation on humans, but protesters claim the experiment’s cruel and unnecessary.


December 3, 2010

While You Were Sleeping

Kotaku AU

While You Were Sleeping was a well-received romantic comedy starring the luminous Sandra Bullock and the irrepressible Bill Pullman.

It’s also the name of a regular section here at Kotaku, where we round up all the best news coming in overnight, to save you trawling down the page for an excuse to not start work. Don’t say we’re not good to you!


In Real Life

Richard Garriott Didn’t Expect NASA’s Discovery In His Lifetime

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


News

Poison-Based Bacteria Redefines Life As We Know It

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.


News

NASA Discovers Alien Life In California

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.


December 1, 2010
News

Has NASA Discovered Life On Saturn’s Moon?

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?