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The Democratic hacks just keep coming. Following on from the high-profile hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has confirmed it has also been hacked. The...

The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over to northeastern Iran, the second largest country in the Middle East. A dryland area, most of Iran's territory is classified as arid and semi-arid, about half of which is characteri...

Look fresh and fly down to the smallest details with the Misfit Leather Backpack by Hard Graft. Made with all natural, vegetable tanned cowhide leather, this unique backpack has undergone a particular controlled washing ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

The Australian guy who this week was playing Pokemon Go while driving his car must surely have been hoping that, like the creatures in the game, the school that appeared in front of him was merely a digital overlay. But ...

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New findings using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show that gullies on modern Mars are likely not being formed by flowing liquid water. This new evidence will allow researchers to further narrow theories ab...

Seeing a fireball erupt in the sky is not an unusual occurrence. Especially during late July, when the Delta Aquirid meteor shower is so near to peaking. At times like this, dozens of fiery objects can be observed streak...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

At a dramatic press conference held earlier today, Governor Rick Scott said Florida is the first state in the US to see locally transmitted Zika virus. The evidence is circumstantial at best, but officials aren't taking ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Nearly 18 months after North Korean hackers gained access to a huge amount of data from Sony Pictures Entertainment, including emails, unreleased scripts, and full-length films, the creators of To Write Love on Her Arms ...

Elon Musk's private spaceflight company, SpaceX, is another step closer to making its Falcon 9 rockets fully reusable. The company announced yesterday the first test firing of a Falcon 9 rocket engine that had already be...

Apple can't get media companies to agree to its terms, says a new report

 It’s no Twitch, but Twitter this weekend will live stream its first eSports competition on its service, thanks to a partnership with Eleague. Twitter will provide live coverage of the organization’s semifinals and ...

Solar technology and battery storage are important. But what has been missing is a technology on which to organize, co-ordinate and secure a true peer-to-peer power grid. While breakthroughs in solar-cell technology have...

A potential lifesaver lies unrecognized in the human body: Scientists have discovered that Staphylococcus lugdunensis which colonizes in the human nose produces a previously unknown antibiotic. As tests on mice have show...

Our week through the lens: 25-29 July 2016

In a critical step toward actually re-using reusable rockets, on Thursday at its McGregor test center SpaceX fired up a Falcon 9 first stage that returned from space just two months ago. And it seemed to perform beautifu...

Nearly 50 years after landing on the moon, mankind has now set its sights on sending the first humans to Mars. The moon trip took three days; a Mars trip will likely take most of a year. The difference is in more than ju...

Plant lovers in New York are enjoying a smelly treat with the rare bloom of a corpse flower at the New York Botanical Garden.