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Motorola unveils a near-field communication security sticker for your wrist, Sony's high-priced Walkman gets buzz, and the cute Jibo robot wants to be part of the family.

With its forthcoming Space Launch System, NASA hopes to send astronauts farther into space than it ever has ever before--to Mars and beyond. And when the first crew does leave to make interplanetary history, they'll do s...

The "Star Trek" celeb took to Tumblr to slam Facebook's new app, along with former co-star George Takei.

Officials in China have sealed off the city of Yumen after one resident died from bubonic plague, reports say. But this action is puzzling to U.S. infectious disease experts, who say the response seems extreme.

Sending an SMS in Android Wear is as easy as telling it to text someone Sending a text message with your Android Wear smartwatch -- and it doesn't matter whether you've got the LG G Watch, the Samsung Gear Live or the Mo...

The weak display of last month's Camelopardalids meteor shower, the result of the close passage of comet 209P/LINEAR, may have disappointed backyard observers, but this never-before-seen shower now has scientists excited...

A new home-grown instrument based on bundles of optical fibres is giving Australian astronomers the first 'Google street view' of the cosmos--incredibly detailed views of huge numbers of galaxies.

In the four decades since Apollo, no humans have landed on the moon. While NASA has no concrete plans to send astronauts back, other nations are talking about going there.

Sam Van Aken discovered that an old New York state orchard--with varieties of stone fruit 200 years old--was about to be abandoned in 2008. He bought it to save those species but also to experiment: Grafting from the exi...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is now equipped with landing legs, which could eventually allow it to be reusable–a crucial step toward lowering the cost of carrying cargo to space. The space startup released a video today ...

Scientists are still debating whether NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is in interstellar space, but a new study outlines a test that could definitively show where the far-flung probe is on its journey out of the solar system...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to investigate the possibility of using commercial Mars-orbiting satellites for telecommunications with future Mars miss...

As fighting continues in Israel and Gaza, astronauts living aboard the International Space Station can see signs of the deadly conflict from space.

There are lots of different kinds of love out there, but perhaps none more pure than between people and their favorite books. You could keep a copy of your one and only out at all times, prominently placed on a shelf at ...

Hubble Space Telescope scientists are going to explain how they use the huge eye in the sky during a live chat Thursday (July 24).

In 2012, the Voyager mission team announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft had passed into interstellar space, traveling further from Earth than any other manmade object. But, in the nearly two years since that historic a...

A new app from one of the chief creators of Google Maps, Sam Liang Ph.D, is appearing this week to allow your family to track you at all times. Contextual awareness is key to the existence of "PlaceUs," an app which allo...

In the face of escalating tensions with Russia, the U.S. Air Force is examining what it would take to accelerate production of ULA's Delta 4 to ensure continued access to space for military satellites.

Hey look, a new router from ASUS and, apparently, it is super, super fast. According to the Taiwanese company, its RT-AC87 is "the world's first" with Wave 2 features, which bring better reliability, major speed boosts a...

Somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, military and civilian experts aboard a U.S. cargo ship, the MV Cape Ray, are disposing of Syria's arsenal of deadly chemical weapons.

Uber wants to tote you about town, and have been rolling out to various cities nationwide. If you had a Windows Phone, though -- you were left to the mobile web version of Uber, which just wasn't as good as any native ap...

The doctor leading the response to the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has been infected with the highly lethal virus, according to news reports.