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Many people once thought Earth was unique in outer space in its ability to support life. Recent discoveries could shatter that notion, like one new analysis of information from the Kepler Space Telescope. An international...

What will humans eat on Mars? It's a daunting question: the red planet's frigid average temperature is around negative 80 degrees Fahrenheit and its thin atmosphere is comprised of 95.32 percent carbon dioxide. But not to...

NASA’s Kepler telescope managed to record, for the first time ever, the early shockwave of an exploding star, and it was quite a coincidence. The light captures, reconstructed into ‘footage,’ reveal the bright “shock...

NASA’s Kepler telescope managed to record, for the first time ever, the early shockwave of an exploding star, and it was quite a coincidence. The light captures, reconstructed into ‘footage,’ reveal the bright “shock...

Scanadu, a startup based at the NASA Ames Research Center, has made the science-fiction of Star Trek a reality by creating a non-invasive tricorder that, within 10 seconds, can gather medical information about a person and...

The Solar Impulse plane is an entirely sun-powered, single-seat airplane that is capable of flying for 36 hours consecutively. In late March we got our first glimpse of the Solar Impulse, and last week it completed its final...

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So far we’ve seen the Solar Impulse airplane soar over Paris, Switzerland, and Morocco – and now the aircraft is set to fly across the United States on the first sun-powered cross-America flight in history...

Just how smart are smartphones becoming? A team of scientists at NASA’s Ames Research center in California are currently working on a fleet of miniature satellites that are powered by Android devices...