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NASA is adding a third company to its short list of space station suppliers, a Nevada business that will bring back a mini version of the shuttle.

ESA's XMM-Newton has found a wind of high-speed gas streaming from the centre of a bright spiral galaxy like our own that may be reducing its ability to produce new stars.

A research team led by Kazunari Yamaura, chief researcher, Superconducting Properties Unit, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, and Dr. Stuart Calder and others at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in...

When some swift, massive stars -- moving at speeds faster than 50,000 miles an hour -- plow through space, they can cause material to stack up in front of them in the same way that water piles up ahead of...

Watch media briefing on the European Data Relay System (EDRS) on Friday 15 January at ESA Headquarters, from 11:30 CET

December is always one of Apple’s biggest months of the year thanks to the influx of new devices people receive as gifts during the holiday season. The company often reports its highest device sales during this month, ...

Remember the teenage hackers who managed to break into CIA director John Brennan's email account several times? It looks like they're back doing the same sort of activity, and this time they've targeted Director of Natio...

An independent safety panel warns that "a continuing and unacknowledged accretion of risk" in NASA's human space exploration programs, caused by schedule pressures and flat funding, could put crews on future missions in ...

Nest has confirmed that a software bug resulted in several Nest Learning Thermostats going offline. The temporary outage has now been fixed by the company.

Russia has reportedly developed a new Ebola vaccine that is more powerful than current drugs. This announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin has surprised medical experts from across the world.

The LIGO experiment hunts for gravitational waves that are different from those sought by BICEP2. Although both types are elusive, they differ in age and strength—and come from very different... --

After Hacking Team's data was leaked, Kaspersky researchers used reports of a discussion between Hacking Team's CEO and an exploit seller to discover a new zero-day vulnerability.

End-to-end encryption is a hot topic in the tech world right now, and Apple's CEO Tim Cook is not shy is taking a stance against it -- even if it's against the federal government. The post Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly l...

According to a new study published in Nature, human-generated climate change -- specifically the massive additions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere -- is causing the Earth to effectively de...

If you don't mind dealing with a couple of bugs and ongoing issues, but want to see just what Microsoft has been working on with its Windows 10 operating system, hop on the Fast Ring and you can download the new 11099 bu...

"Toretto Way." As soon as I saw that Google's self-driving car testing facility -- named "Castle" after its former life as the Castle Air Force Base -- had a street named after Vin Diesel's character in the Fast & Furiou...

A proposed bill in New York doesn't demand backdoors in smartphones but will seek to ban the sale of smartphones whose encryption can't be bypassed by the manufacturer.

NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter has broken the record to become humanity's most distant solar-powered emissary. The milestone occurred at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST, 19:00 UTC) on Wednesday, Jan. 13, when Juno was about 493 ...

For the first time, scientists have spotted large patches of water ice on the surface of a comet, thanks to instruments aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta orbiter.

With its new "Seattle" server chips now shipping in volume after a long delay, AMD hopes that it's coming into a market where there are fewer concerns about the ARM architecture in data centers. The Opteron A1100 chips w...

Introducing the BeoSound 35 soundbar, the newest high quality speaker from Bang and Olufsen. This all-in-one integrated speaker system allows you to connect it to your entertainment unit for cinematic movie experiences b...

For $30, Intel's Arduino 101 board provides an easy path for makers to build a wearable computer, a mini-robot or a smart appliance for the home. The tiny board, which went on sale this week, fits in the palm of your han...