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.
Israeli researchers have developed a theoretical model of a time machine that, in the distant future, could possibly enable future generations to travel into the past.
A move to arm police robots with stun guns has been condemned by weapons researchers.
Israel's military launched a spy satellite toward space early Monday, the Defense Ministry said, and a senior official suggested it could help keep track of developments in Iran.