It is expected to be announced that NASA will cut funding for the exploration of the planet Mars after Congress cut its 2013 budget. However, a former high ranking NASA official calls the move “irrational and unjustified.”

LinkedIn reached a global milestone today with 150 million users worldwide now signed up and using the online professional network, including more than two million in Australia – about 10 percent of the population – LinkedIn devotees.

Roger Boisjoly was one of the engineers that vehemently opposed the launch of the space shuttle Challenger because he was firmly convinced its o-rings would not hold up under the very cold conditions on the morning of January 28, 1986. He and other engineers were correct. NASA was wrong -- dead wrong.

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, OutSystems, has snared a major contract with the United States Department of Defense to assist with consolidation in 962 of the army's data centres across the US by 2015.

 American astronaut Shannon Lucid has retired from NASA after over three decades of being a NASA employee, including being an astronaut on the Russian space station Mir and the International Space Station.  

NASA has just released an image it is calling “Blue Marble 2012”, which the space agency is describing as the “most amazing high definition image of Earth.”

Research performed by a University of Michigan professor and fellow colleagues found that parents often do not use booster seats on children when carpooling. Such a practice is very dangerous if a serious crash should occur while on the road.

According to reports coming out of Russia, the Russian space agency Roscosmos is interested in joining with the U.S. space agency NASA and the European Union’s space agency ESA for joint exploration of the Moon.

People spend more at e-tail sites when they use a tablet rather than a smartphone or a computer.

A new survey carried out by a major analyst firm suggests CIOs in the Asia Pacific region will be relatively flush with cash compared with their counterparts in the US and Europe.