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President Donald Trump wants a Space Force, a new military service he says is needed to ensure American dominance in space

Around a month ago, SpaceX launched one of its Dragon cargo capsules into space, loading it up with supplies destined for the International Space Station. Now, it has made it safely back to Earth, splashing into the Paci...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft taught us more than we ever imagined about Saturn. Could we do something similar for Uranus and Neptune?

Exaggerated reports appeared earlier this week claiming a US Air Base in Greenland had been struck by a meteor. That’s not true, the Air Force has said, but it did confirm that a meteor hit miles away with considerable...

On August 1st, Defense Distributed was set to upload designs of 3D-printed guns for the public to buy and download. But the day before, a Seattle judge temporarily blocked their release after seven states and Washington,...

Composed of 15 glass elements and weighing in at a 2 pounds, the Pentax Star series 50mm F1.4 is no ordinary 50mm lens. The $1,200 premium prime seeks to compete with the likes of the Sigma Art series, and it easily succ...

A Chipotle scam, FBI brain drain, and more of the week's top security news.

Apple spanned international headlines by becoming a trillion-dollar company in valuation, and more from the Apple beat.

The decision by Google and others to let web content creators add smart snippets, coupled with the use of schema.org, will make it possible to turn your web pages into rich, intelligent databases. It's been a long journe...

Meet the nine astronauts who will fly on the first crewed launches from the US since 2011.

Apple cites deal with CVS and 7-Eleven to bring Apple Pay to retail, and smartphone access to cash via Chase ATMs, as proof that mobile pay is taking off. But analysts say it could take as many as 10 years to go mass mar...

Pack your toiletries in a smarter way with the Matador FlatPak Travel Toiletry Bottle. Designed for light travelers, this minimalist bottle helps save valuable space in your backpack or luggage. In fact, FlatPak bottles ...

President Donald Trump fired off a celebratory tweet to laud NASA's first astronaut crews to fly on private spacecraft built by Boeing and SpaceX, a message that also appeared to hail the president's proposed military Sp...

Opinion: Electronic monitors violate people's civil rights and carry unfair financial penalties.

Earth might be getting bombarded by thousands of high-energy radio waves from deep space every day -- and scientists have no good explanation (yet).

Google apologizes for coding a government agency's number into all Android phones in India. Over the course of this week, several Android users in India took to Twitter over the mysterious appearance of a government help...

Google has been on a roll with new features for its Maps service this week, from matching users to restaurants that they might like to adding battery percentage to location sharing. Rather than settle for two though, Goo...

Instagram used to have a safeguard in place to make sure you really, truly wanted to stop following someone on its mobile app.  If you clicked on the "unfollow" button (it looks like the top half of a person with a chec...

A new Alexa "skill," Away Mode, tries to trick burglars into thinking somebody is home by playing long audio clips that sound like real — albeit absurd—conversations that could be happening inside.        

You might think that night light technology hasn’t come very far in the past decade, but we’re about to show you something awesome that will definitely change your mind. Instead of using a boring old night light that...

A recent study, described at Big Think, reveals that students who multi-task with smartphones in class are less able to retain information they’ll need for future exams. From the article. "This finding demonstrates for...

Insects are a common food item in some parts of the world, but have been slow to catch on in the US. Despite the potential environmental benefits of consuming edible insects, many people remain adverse to the idea of eat...