PC

Celebrity Impersonators Flood The Virtual Spaceways

EVE Online recently introduced an amazing new character customisation tool that has the game’s players seeing virtual stars at every turn. Space Conan O’Brien heads up our star-studded gallery.


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.


November 27, 2010
News

Saturn’s Moon Rhea May Have A Breathable Atmosphere

Saturn’s icy moon Rhea has an oxygen and carbon dioxide atmosphere that is very similar to Earth’s. Even better, the carbon dioxide suggests there’s life – and that possibly humans could breathe the air.


November 24, 2010
News

Hubble Discovers Mordor In Space!

Mount Doom doesn’t lay inside the heart of the black land of Mordor after all — it’s in a stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, judging from a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.


November 4, 2010
News

Configuring A Room For Kinect: A Tale Of Two Homes

Kinect needs a lot of room, more room than any video game control device before it. But where there’s a will to move furniture or rotate TVs, there is a way. This is how we made room in two homes.


September 22, 2010
News

EVE Online Prepares For An Incursion

The deadly Sansha’s Nation aims to create its own utopia, taking down any pilots who get in its way in EVE Online: Incursion, the latest expansion for CCP’s outer space MMO, due out in November.


August 19, 2010
News

Star Wars Mod Fulfills Fanboy Dreams

Star Wars: Requiem, a mod of 2008 PC game Sins of a Solar Empire that just received another update, is what a Star Wars space real-time strategy game should look and play like.


August 4, 2010
In Real Life

NASA’s Robotic Spaceman Has A Twitter Addiction

Meet Robonaut 2, the most dexterous humanoid robot in existence, soon to be the first humanoid robot in space, and you’ll be able to hear all about it through his Twitter account.


July 1, 2010
In Real Life

NASA’s VR Headset Looks Like That Thing You Made In 4th Grade

The ’90s may’ve given us Blink 182 and stonewashed denim, but I very much doubt NASA will be reviving 1993′s virtual reality system alongside those other comebacks, seen here modelled on a (presumably) taken-advantage-of intern.


May 13, 2010
In Real Life

Monster Runaway Star Rampages Through Universe

30 Dor 016 is a star 90 times the size of our sun, ejected from its home, moving through space at a speed of 402,336km/h. Anyone lose the plot to an epic science-fiction video game?