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Life, and work, in a simulated Mars environment.

Humans must expand to other planets and that requires building a spacecraft capable of crossing interstellar space. The craft will have to house thousands of people, and it's too big to be built on Earth....

Check it out. Look southwest at dusk tonight and you’ll see three of the solar system’s coolest personalities gathering for a late dinner. Saturn, Mars and the waxing crescent moon will sup in Libra ahead of the fier...

The chemical uniformity of stars in the same cluster is the result of turbulent mixing in the clouds of gas where star formation occurs, according to a study by astrophysicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz...

The most complex 3-D printed rocket injector ever built by NASA roars to life on the test stand at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama....

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View the red star Antares near the red planet Mars, plus the Zodiacal Light that points towards Jupiter in the morning sky....

The northern part of Chile is a forbidding and remote desert. Called the Atacama, it is one of the driest places on Earth, and also reaches high elevations; in some places the desert floor is 4000 meters above sea level....

Google has unveiled its Project Wing drone program for making deliveries. While the technology certainly is there, if regulations stay as they are then the drones will never take off.

(University of Southampton) A new study of satellite data from the last 19 years reveals that fresh water from melting glaciers has caused the sea-level around the coast of Antarctica to rise by 2 cm more than the global...