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NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down on Mars 40 years ago today (July 20), marking the start of the up-close investigation of the Red Planet.

Milo Yiannopoulos, the Breitbart blogger better known on Twitter as @Nero, has been permanently banned from Twitter after inciting a campaign of racist harassment against Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones that prompted the ...

Humanity's next visitor to the solar system's innermost planet remains on track for April 2018, according to the project's scientist. The BepiColombo mission, being developed jointly by the European Space Agency (ESA) an...

The SpaceX Dragon CRS-9 cargo vessel seen chasing the International Space Station from Leiden, The Netherlands, just a few hours before this morning's berthing.

SpaceX finally made good on its delivery of a space station docking port Wednesday morning.

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Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted the first search for atmospheres around temperate, Earth-sized planets beyond our solar system and found indications that increase the chances of habitabili...

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Czech security firm Avast and its Virtual Mobile Platform was chosen by South Korean security firm SK Infosec over Samsung Knox to service its local clients.

Around 3.8 billion years ago, an asteroid more than 150 miles across, roughly equal to the length of New Jersey, slammed into the Moon and created the Imbrium Basin--the right eye of the fabled Man in the Moon. This new ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have snagged a SpaceX Dragon supply spacecraft, which reached the station today (July 20) after two days spent catching up to the station.

On May 2, scientists from MIT, the University of Liège, and elsewhere announced they had discovered a planetary system, a mere 40 light years from Earth, that hosts three potentially habitable, Earth-sized worlds. Judgi...

NASA is joining with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to operate a new institute charged with researching and developing innovative approaches to reduce risks to humans on long-duration exploration missions, includi...

You want to know the very definition of irony? While the Republican National Convention is going on in Ohio--loaded to the hilt with people who deny the reality of global warming--the country itself is baking under a hea...

Radiation is an invisible hazard of spaceflight, but a new monitoring system for ESA astronauts gives a realtime snapshot of their exposure. The results will guide researchers preparing for deep-space missions to come.

Researchers found a potential vaccine that can prevent chlamydia infection. Untreated cases of the sexually transmitted infection is known to cause infertility and blindness.

It's a lot to ask a machine to be both a laptop and a tablet, but Acer comes damn close to nailing it with its new Switch Alpha 12. To make it work, Acer had to get weird with design.

A trip inside the "holy grail" of exoplanet research.

"We certainly did not expect to find superflare stars with magnetic fields as weak as the magnetic fields on the Sun. This opens the possibility that the Sun could generate a superflare - a very frightening thought" says...

A new review finds no significant difference among type 2 diabetes patients who take antidiabetic drugs and their rates of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. Findings support the official advice that metformin is a ...

A Mediterranean diet that is rich in healthy fats can provide more health benefits, including lower risks of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and breast cancer. Healthy fats include eggs, olive oil, fatty fish and nuts.

Landing on Mars -- as NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft did 40 years ago, on July 20, 1976 -- is a complex affair. Here's a look at the five main ways space probes have done it over the decades.