The only moon rocks available on Earth go up for auction
A rare chance to buy a piece of the moon is coming up just in time for holiday shopping. For that person who's hard to shop for, you can be...
NASA, Russia launch Soyuz rocket to ISS just weeks after failure
American, Canadian and Russian astronauts launched to the International Space Station in a Soyuz rocket Monday morning, weeks after the same model failed shortly after take-off. NASA's Anne McClain,...
Gimme shelter: Underground real estate for the apocalypse
This is part of our Road Trip 2018 summer series 'Taking It to Extremes,' which looks at what happens when people mix everyday tech with insane situations. I am trying...
Step aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery with Google’s 8K virtual tour
Now's your chance to (virtually) step inside the Space Shuttle Discovery. To commemorate the 34th anniversary of the shuttle's first launch on Thursday, the Smithsonian's National Air and...
Nanobots can now swarm like fish to perform complex medical tasks
The future is amazing. A new way of using nanorobots has been discovered thanks to the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), a method that could help surgeons...
Scientists create a new font designed to boost your memory
During my early years at university, I was a terrible student. Disinterested, tired. Forgetful. It would have been handy to have a font specifically designed to help me alleviate the...
MIT finally figures out how to get planes and submarines to communicate
The magicians at MIT have come up with another solution to one of the world's science problems. On Tuesday, MIT Media Lab shared new technology for communication from underwater...
Isaac Asimov predicted how we’d live in 2019, but he was only half right
About 35 years ago, to celebrate the coming of the year 1984 -- made popular decades earlier by George Orwell's dystopian novel -- Isaac Asimov was asked to write about what...
NASA identifies ‘foreign object debris’ spotted by Mars rover
NASA's Curiosity rover team spotted a weird-looking object on Mars this week and worried it might be a piece of spacecraft debris. The rover snapped an image of...
NASA’s InSight lander finds its best angle with Mars selfie
InSight, welcome to the 'gram, my clever robot friend.* NASA's Mars lander has been stretching and snapping photos of the martian landscape and bits of itself since...