Last year shattered 2014's record to become the hottest year since reliable record-keeping began, two U.S. government science agencies announced Wednesday in yet another sign that the planet is heating up.
A photo of Tico astronaut Franklin Chang with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office was chosen as one of the year's best by White House photographers.
Google claims the D-Wave 2X is 100 million times as fast as any of today's machines. As a result, this quantum computer could theoretically complete calculations within seconds to a problem that might take a digital computer 10,000 years to calculate.
Costa Rica, represented by the Central American Aeronautics and Space Administration (ACAE), on Monday was officially accepted as a full member country of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) during the group’s 66th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2015), taking place in Jerusalem through Friday.
Ad Astra Rocket, the company founded by Tico scientist and ex-astronaut Franklin Chang Díaz, will develop space propulsion systems for a new NASA project, the company reported this week.
NASA's Hall of Fame astronaut and the first Tico in space, Franklin Chang, on Tuesday attended a special screening of director Ridley Scott’s new movie “The Martian,” based on the 2011 bestseller novel of the same name by U.S. author Andy Weir. In "The Martian," the Ares 3 crew travels aboard a Hermes spacecraft powered by four of Chang’s VASIMR engines.
New, high-resolution images of the surface of Pluto beamed from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal unparalleled geographical variety - from soaring mountains to sand dunes to frozen ice floes, scientists said Saturday.
Young Costa Ricans looking for a role model in scientific achievement need look no further than Sandra Cauffman. After what she has described as a difficult childhood in the Hatillo neighborhood of San José as the child of a single mother, Cauffman went on to become one of NASA’s most renowned engineers.
