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The private spaceflight company launched the satellite for Japanese company SKY Perfect JSAT on Aug. 14, 2016. SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of the rocket on the company's drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

The private spaceflight is back in the business of successful drone ship landings, after their previous ocean landing failed. The Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched the JCSAT-16 communication satellite minutes prior.

The colliding black holes that generated the first detection of gravitational waves may have been primordial.

(King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)) Indium tin oxide, the current material used in transparent electronics, is becoming very expensive thanks to the rarity of indium. Using atomic layer deposition,...

Late last week marked the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower, generally one of the most dependable shooting star shows of the year. You can usually spot about a meteor per minute streaking across the sky, leaving b...

"The universe is more than 13 billion years old. That means that even if there have been a thousand civilizations in our own galaxy, if they live only as long as we have been around--roughly ten thousand years--then all ...

SpaceX landed its Falcon 9 rocket for the sixth time in the last eight months early Sunday morning (Aug. 14), pulling off the feat during the successful launch of the JCSAT-16 commercial communications satellite.

Tesla has dropped hints that it's ready to extend the range of its electric cars (there was an allusion to a "P100D" hidden in firmware), but it now looks like that long-distance technology is getting closer to fruition....

 At 1:26am ET, SpaceX launched their Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral and, once again, recovered the first stage of that rocket on a drone ship floating in the ocean. More importantly, SpaceX successfully completed t...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is going after illegal gun sales online via the dark web, creating a special group for that purpose. The Internet Investigations Center will give "actionable intel...

Scientists debate the dangers of a new plague emerging from permafrost thaws.

Apple has implemented a series of short- and long-term defenses to its iMessage protocol after several issues were discovered by a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University, according to a report published today (v...

The adventurous space explorer Jet Propulsion and his Earthling friends head into outer space to learn about Jupiter and Pluto in new episodes of the animated series "Ready Jet Go!" airing this week (Aug. 15-19).

Drones are coming, and they're going to change a lot of things about how we shape our lives. So why shouldn't we change how we shape our buildings? The post It's Time for Fancy Apartments to Offer Balconies for Drone Lan...

On Aug. 14, 2016, SpaceX launched the JCSAT-16 communications satellite, and brought the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket down for a landing on a ship at sea. See images here.

Imagine not having to use curtains or blinds anymore. Instead of covering your windows when the sun's too strong, you simply have to flip a switch to turn them completely opaque. A team of MIT researchers have developed ...

Those stylish flash tattoos could do more than just look cool in the future. A team from MIT and Microsoft Research has developed a fabrication process called "DuoSkin," which can be used to make temporary metallic tatto...

It might've been born in America, but it looks like it's going to grow up somewhere overseas. The Hyperloop, Elon Musk's ambitious concept that was first debuted in 2013, might be going to India. The post Hyperloop is lo...

Google is no stranger to creating whole platforms when it needs them, but its latest project might be something special. It's working on Fuchsia, an open source operating system that's designed to scale all the way from ...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi warned fellow Democrats on Saturday to change their cellphone numbers and not let family members read their text messages after personal and official information of Democratic House mem...

For nearly a week now a mystery has surrounded the Olympics and it wasn't what country would reign supreme: why did those pools turn green?

The battle to snag the precious attention of consumers swimming in a sea of ubiquitous Wi-Fi is being waged on a new front in London: bookstores.  SEE ALSO: This book nerd's tweet to a bookstore's official Twitter accou...