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more about #jpl more comments → Navin R Johnson: As some already pointed out, most of the earth is covered in water, about 71% This leaves only 29% for land mass. 3/4 of the earth's population lives... more » SigmundTheSeaMonster: Your government explicitly told your scientists not to warn the public on these matters. Reason: don't want panic. Nothing about saving the world... ... more » TheSonOfKrypton: December 21st, 2012. That one won't miss us. #asteroid more » Sticks Calhoun: Hopefully they had Bruce WIllis on standby. #asteroid more » snoop_dizzle: Well if they hyped it up more earlier we could of had end of the world sex all over the world with whomever we wanted (because we would all be despera... more » psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!: Is it me, or is there a crapload of objects falling down onto Earth ever since they smacked the moon? I smell a conscpiracy...oh wait no thats just my... more » Woozle Wozzle: In all likelihood, this would hit the ocean... but I guess that would create a massive tidal wave... oh crap... #asteroid more » bosskev: Crap! Now I will have to pay my past-due phone bill. Can't ever catch a break... #asteroid more » trs: These are the crappiest pictures of a floating mouse I've ever seen. Were these taken by the same person that goes around taking pictures of rumored u... more » anon: One more freefall magnet. This demonstrates eddy currents as used in magnetic braking. more » Pixelologist, Esq.: I've been experimenting with a different approach - pulling oneSELF up by one's bootstraps. My primary stumbling block at the moment is procuring tiny... more » BigRosie: I'll bet the first commercial use of this technology will be in porn. The will find a way. more » deliciousburglar: if it defeats the effects of gravity, i say anti-gravity. more » JackTheTripper: This is GREAT news! Giz, please please PLEASE let us know when they can levitate a pig. Man, I'm SO gonna get laid 50 times over when that happens. more » Gregsvo: Made me think think of this classic flash sort-of-game. more » -
#space
An Asteroid Could Have Killed Us Tonight
Rejoice, because you are alive: An asteroid named 2009 TM8 just passed only 216,000 miles from Earth, racing at 18,163mph. That's closer than the moon. But don't worry, there'll be plenty of opportunities to panic, says the JPL: More » -
#science
NASA's New Super-Magnet Is So Strong It Could Make Lab Rats Levitate
NASA scientists have created an magnetic field powerful enough to make lab mice levitate, which is a big Where's My Back to the Future Skateboard breakthrough. The only problem is that the mice have to be high as kites too. More » -
#space
NASA Kills Ulysses Spacecraft After 18 years of Studying the Sun
You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever / But you rode upon a steamer to the violence of the Sun. More » -
#imagecache
What Is This?
Looks like a billion gazillion television screens, thundering their nonsense and babbling at the same time in some gigantic art installation. Or maybe one of those crazy LED art projects in a skyscraper. It's better than all that, put together. More » -
#nasa
Fellow Robots Trying to Help Stuck Mars Spirit
You know when Woody gets kidnapped and then Buzz Lightyear and Mr Potato and all the toys go to rescue him from the evil toy man? Well, this story has nothing to do with that. More » -
#singletear
NASA Scientists Give Up on Phoenix Resurrection
It may be extremely difficult, but even after its death, NASA scientists have been trying to resurrect the Phoenix Mars Lander at all costs. Sadly, they gave up last week. Happily, there's still hope. -
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#phoenixmarslander
Martian Ice Is Why I'm Alive and Why I'm Dying
This is part three of an ongoing series by our latest guest editor, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, as it faces its final days. More » -
#phoenixmarslander
This is What Landing On Mars Feels Like
This is part 2 of an ongoing series by our latest guest editor, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, as it faces its final days. More » -
#phoenixmarslander
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Guest Blogging on Giz
We'd like to introduce our newest guest blogger—the Phoenix Mars Lander. With a successful mission starting to wind down as a cold winter rapidly descends upon its landing site in the Martian arctic, we're pretty happy that Phoenix, (already a prolific Twitterer) has agreed to look back with us on its amazing life over the course of its final days on Mars. Here Phoenix starts with the very beginning of the story. We're pretty sure a spacecraft has never guest-edited a blog before. Enjoy. More » -
#happybirthday
Spitzer Space Telescope Celebrates 5th Birthday With Portrait of Stellar Nursery
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the last of the space agency's Great Observatories satellites to launch, celebrated its fifth birthday recently... giving me the opportunity to post this amazing multigenerational picture of star-forming region in the constellation Cassiopeia, 6,500 light-years from Earth. The photo takes in an area equivalent to four full moons and puts on show how one generation of massive stars can give birth to the next. More » -
#retromodo
Abandoned NASA Trailer Found Roadside, Full of Retro NASA Awesomeness
Since it came about in the 1930s as the Army's rocket research lab, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been a part of just about every major unmanned U.S. space mission to date. JPL also has a somewhat surprising history of running major missions out of modular trailers scattered around their Pasadena HQ, which are packed with all of the stuff you need to, oh, I don't know, monitor a spacecraft on its way to Mars. Photographer Richard Harrington stumbled upon one of these trailers, abandoned on a dusty lot somewhere between L.A. and Las Vegas, and as you would expect, it's a retro space-tech dream inside. More »
