Smartphones apps aren't just about games. There's some educating to do out there if you'd care to tear yourself away from Fruit Ninja for just two minutes and we at Pocket-lint have amassed the very best Android apps for learning and reference so that...

DARPA’s Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV2) will take to the skies on Friday (its 11 August flight was cancelled due to the weather) for its second, and final, test flight - where it will reach speeds of 13,000mph.

A speed that...

Despite lifting off 135 times, making an appearance in a Bond film, and even its immortalisation in Lego, the famous space shuttle is taking early retirement. On 8 July 2011, the Atlantis orbiter will embark on the very last space shuttle mission bringing...

A nasty email virus is currently doing the rounds, munching its way through inboxes worldwide, and one of the major reported casualties is US space agency NASA.

The worm, which McAfee describes as the "Here you have" virus, is distributed in...

Moonbase Alpha, the official NASA MMO will be released onto the Steam network on 6 July.

The game, which has been in private beta testing for a while now, features realistic NASA exploration scenarios with 3D graphics. You'll be part of a moon...

Nikon has revealed that NASA has placed an order for 11 D3S digital SLR cameras to be used for photographic documentation - in space.
 
The D3S DSLRs and AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses ordered by NASA will be carried on the Space Shuttle...

Mobiado has announced the launch of another luxury handset - this one, a little like the special edition Motorola Aura we saw recently - with a space twist.

With the new handset, the Grand 350 Pioneer, Mobiado is paying homage to NASA's...

NASA has put together an iPhone application that'll let budding space-heads keep track of intersteller goings-on from their mobile phones. The app, which was released on 23 Oct, is called "NASA App For iPhone".

It allows users to view images...

The EasyBloom Plant Sensor is the first web-based gardening tool that recommends the best plants for any location and provides plant care advice.

Although already launched in the States, we've only just heard of the USB gadget and thought...

Based on the fact that it was a Motorola radio transponder aboard the Apollo 11 that relayed the first words and visuals from the moon to Earth, Moto is offering a moon-themed special edition of its high-end Aura.

The expensive Aura just...

Eton is celebrating 50 years of space exploration and 40 years since Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon with a special edition radio.

The New Eton G6 Buzz Aldrin Aviator Radio is described as a "space aged, pocket sized, world...

NASA astronaut Mark Polansky is to keep in touch in orbit in a particularly web 2.0 way.

As well as via YouTube, Polansky is to use micro-blogging service Twitter to update interested parties on his progress.

Polansky is to...

Three of NASA's old space shuttles, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, are to be up for grabs in a few year's time.

The space agency is currently calling for ideas as to how and where to best display the shuttles when they get retired in...

The scientists over at NASA need to study the tiniest of tiny details, specs in space and so they needed no less than the world's highest resolution visualisation system.

NASA's Advanced Supercomputing Division at Ames has created a 128...

It seems that one particular college may not have had the certain procedures in place to prevent a woman being awarded more than £6000. The ruling support the woman's claims of having her privacy breached.

Nine years ago, the woman who worked...