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Scott Whatmough was tasked with delivering what turned out to be Raytheon's winning bid for the FAB-T program.

The Space Camp Hall of Fame, founded in 2007, added three new members to its ranks. The 2014 class includes astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, former astronaut trainer Michelle Ham and the founder of Space Camp Turkey, Ka...

Before they can see Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, the astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) must complete an epic to-do list. --

A perigree full moon or supermoon is seen, Sunday, August 10, 2014, in Washington. A supermoon occurs when the moon's orbit is closest (perigee) to Earth at the same time it is full....

Get ready for the darling of meteor showers this week--the Perseids. Who can deny their appeal? Not only is the shower rich with fiery flashes of meteoric light, but the meteors come in August when the weather's couldn't...

It’s all too easy to purchase material possessions we don’t need and won’t use more than once or twice. Oftentimes we find solace in owning things rather than getting them because we need them. If you’re a more p...

Stargazers who stayed indoors Sunday night missed out on a real treat.

jfruh writes Many security experts agree that our current authentication system, in which end users are forced to remember (or, more often, write down) a dizzying array of passwords is broken. DARPA, the U.S. Defense Dep...

It's estimated that more than half of U.S. energy--from vehicles and heavy equipment, for instance--is wasted as heat. Mostly, this waste heat simply escapes into the air. But that's beginning to change, thanks to thermo...

At the ends of the Universe there are black holes with masses equaling billions of our sun. These giant bodies -- quasars -- feed on interstellar gas, swallowing large quantities of it non-stop. Thus they reveal their ex...

(American Chemical Society) Coffee drinkers beware: Surprise ingredients may be hiding in your coffee, and growing shortages may well increase the chance of having more fillers in the future. A new test that will be repo...

A water-based tractor beam that could contain oil spills and manipulate floating objects cannot yet be explained by mathematical theory.

A bridge of gas more than 20 times bigger than the Milky Way has been discovered linking distant galaxies, possibly after a catastrophic collision or near miss.

What it's like to be flagged at every airport security stop for nine years

  Using publicly available photographs taken by astronauts onboard the International Space Station, Bruce W. Berry edited this incredible timelapse sequence. All footage was color graded, denoised, deflickered, slowed d...

The first American doctor to be treated in the U.S. after having been infected with Ebola virus in Liberia issued a statement about his current condition. Here's what he said.

The electronics giant has begun testing of a new screen, likely to be unveiled this year, according to a Korean supplier of Samsung parts.

The New Horizons probe used its onboard telescope to record a video of Charon orbiting Pluto. The movie is composed of 12 individual images taken July 19-24 -- one year before the spacecraft's flyby of the distant dwarf ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features: NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide has reached its final orbit and returned its first science data.

A U.S. District Court judge on Aug. 8 rejected a jury award of $283 million in damages to ViaSat Inc. in ViaSat's patent-infringement lawsuit against satellite builder Space Systems/Loral but left intact the jury's findi...

Polaroid has launched a new camera that can fit into your pocket and shoot full 1080p HD video. It can even withstand a tumble and some water. Originally unveiled at CES 2014, the new Polaroid Cube measures less than 2 i...

Saturn has a great many more moons than our planet - a whopping 62. A single moon, Titan, accounts for an overwhelming 96% of all the material orbit the planet, with a group of six other smaller moons dominating the...