An editorial in the Economist argues that at a minimum, the "big spacefaring countries ought to consider negotiating some less formal rules of the road. These would seek to stop dangerous driving, maintain safe distances and, most importantly, avoid harm to each other's satellites."
The team of mathematicians that first created the mathematics behind the "invisibility cloak" announced by physicists last October has now shown that the same technology could be used to generate an "electromagnetic wormhole."
Russia's Foreign Minister told national leaders attending the General Assembly today that it is time to establish a global agreement outlawing the deployment of weapons in space, warning they endanger the existence of all States.
DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery for Google Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive. Together with the company's existing Quickbird satellite, it will offer half-meter resolution and will be able to collect over 600,000 square kilometers of imagery each day, up from the current collection of that amount each week.
Human security and technologies from cell phones to weather forecasts are more at risk than ever from anti-satellite weapons and space junk, said a new research report on space security.
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Google has put up a $30m prize in an effort to trigger a race to put the first privately financed space mission on the moon.
A team of computational scientists have created a new technology they are calling the "Dark Web" which aims to systematically collect and analyze all terrorist-generated content on the Web.
The U.S. military will spend about $1.7 billion on ground-based robots in the next five years, according to figures reported by a defense analyst.
An outbreak of a deadly disease in a virtual world can offer insights into real life epidemics, scientists suggest.
China has dismissed suggestions that it is in a race with Japan to put a space probe in orbit around the moon.