Pluto has evenly spaced dark spots
New color images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show two very different faces of the mysterious dwarf planet, one with a series of intriguing spots...
New color images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show two very different faces of the mysterious dwarf planet, one with a series of intriguing spots...
They might seem like a tiny obstacle for a 500-ton plane, but insects crushed by a flying aircraft...
The FAA is beta-testing a new air traffic tool with the help of data from SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft,...
A new island off Japan's coast offers scientists a “natural laboratory” to observe how animal and plant life begin to inhabit virgin land. Researchers say...
A team of American and Australian researchers claim they have created algorithms that enable robots to learn operational...
The Air Force’s top-secret space plane landed in California on Friday morning after nearly two years orbiting Earth...
The Boeing X-37B, a highly classified robotic spacecraft built for the US Air Force, is to make its third landing after spending more than 670...
Roosevelt Lafontant had a dream. A Marine Corps officer assigned to the National Reconnaissance Office at the Pentagon,...
Internet retailer Amazon is serious about wanting to ship packages using unmanned aerial vehicles, and now the company...
Earth’s magnetic field is a protective shield for our planet from cosmic radiation, but it’s also somewhat of...
New government data suggests that the average temperature in the United States has cooled by approximately 0.7 degrees Fahrenheit during the last decade. The statistics...
“Tesla was right and we are ready to prove it!” So say the two Russian physicists who have...
As part of a search into the origins of our galaxy, astronomers at the University of Texas have...
Cameras used by scientists at NASA have captured images of “significant” solar flares emitting from the sun this week. On Wednesday, NASA reported, a third...
In the future, virtual reality won't require strapping a bulky contraption to your head. Instead, imagine stepping into...
It has been almost 40 years since Professor Kip Thorne and Dr Anna Zytkow first suggested it was...
This is CNN… issuing a correction over a viral, user-posted report that a giant asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, and would wipe...
The world took one significant step closer to inventing a real-life cybernetic organism as US scientists, inspired by...
Later this month the US Pentagon plans to award a massive contract to one of the two most...
Tech giant Google has patented a smart contact lens to buttress its Google Glass product. The lenses will...
The United States has suspended contact between NASA and its Russian counterpart over the ongoing situation in Ukraine. Only ongoing International Space Station cooperation will...
One of the US Air Force’s most mysterious projects – an unmanned space-faring plane – has broken its...
Researchers are working to create “living materials” that are a combination of bacterial cells and nonliving materials that...
Ancient zircon crystals, discovered in Australia in 2001, have now been proved to be our planet’s oldest known substance. The 4.4 billion-year-old gem offers clues...