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NASA Spacecraft Aims to Put Mystery Planets on Galactic Map
Calling all planets that orbit around bright, nearby stars: NASA's new Tess spacecraft is looking to do a head count.The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - Tess for short - is embarking Monday on a two-year quest to find and identify mystery worlds thought to be...
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Expert: Rise of Robots Could Lead Humans to Communism
Robots could turn nations red, one expert has warned.In a speech at the Canada Growth Summit, the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney said the automation of millions of jobs could lead to mass unemployment, wage stagnation and the growth of communism within a...
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NASA Plans Deep-Space Outpost Near Moon
NASA plans to build a floating outpost near the moon where a team of astronauts can live and conduct research missions to the lunar surface and beyond.
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NASA: Identical Twins' DNA No Longer Match After Year in Space
After a year on the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly's DNA has changed, and is now different than his identical twin Mark, NASA researchers say.
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Russian Spaceship for Tourists to Debut in 2025
A private Russian company is designing a reusable rocket ship to jet tourists into outer space , but the ride will not be cheap.
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No New 'Learning' Brain Cells after Age 13: Study
Around the age of 13, the human brain region that hosts memory and learning appears to stop producing nerve cells, said a study Wednesday described as "sobering".
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Huge Asteroid Will Skim Past Earth Wednesday Morning
A "potentially hazardous" asteroid up to 1600 feet in diameter, visible to amateurs with smaller telescopes, will skim past Earth early Wednesday morning, according to NASA.
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Alien Life in Our Solar System? Study Hints at Saturn's Moon
Humanity may need look no further than our own Solar System in the search for alien life, researchers probing one of Saturn's moons said Tuesday.
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Report: Cave Art Predates Humans
Paintings of animals, hand stencils, and other drawings found in caves in modern-day Spain reportedly must have been made by Neanderthals, with the cave art spanning a period of 25,000 years.
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AI, Fake Audio-Video Technology Are Game Changers for Election Meddling
Researchers are warning that advances in artificial intelligence could supercharge hacking and election meddling by 2020.In a report released Wednesday, researchers at Oxford and Cambridge universities concluded AI-enhanced software will allow people with little technical...
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Boston Dynamics' Headless Robot Dog Can Open Doors
The scariest scene since a pair of Velociraptors opened a kitchen door in "Jurassic Park" is tame compared with the headless robot dogs generated by Boston Dynamics that can negotiate stairs, open doors and deal with most obstacles in their way, The Washington Post...
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Autism Blood Test Search Gets a Breakthrough
Researchers discovered a blood test could determine with as much as 90 percent accuracy whether a child has autism, according to a new study.
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Researchers Grow Sheep Embryos Containing Human Cells
Researchers on Saturday announced they had grown sheep embryos containing human cells, an advance that opens the door for growing transplant organs inside animals and offers the possibility of genetically tailoring the organs to be compatible with the person receiving them,...
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Study: Sea Level Rise Accelerated by Climate Change
According to a study published Monday, global sea level rise is accelerating as a result of ocean water warming and sooner-than-expected ice loss from the west Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets, and could reach 26 inches by 2100.
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China Leading Way With Facial-Recognition Eyewear for Police
Police in China have introduced mobile facial-recognition units that can be mounted right on officers' glasses. ...
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Meteor Credited for Bright Light, Noise Rattling Michigan
Experts say a bright light and what sounded like thunder in the sky above Michigan was a meteor.The American Meteor Society says it received hundreds of reports of a fireball Tuesday night over the state, including many in the Detroit area.
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Scientists: Kepler Telescope Revealing 'Hundreds of Billions' Exoplanets
Space discovery is expanding almost as massively as space itself - thanks to the power and clarity of the Kepler Space Telescope - making the possibility of hundreds of billions of exoplanets, if not a trillion, scientists tell Forbes."There are hundreds of billions of...
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Scientists Able to Implant Info in Monkeys' Brains
University of Rochester neuroscientists were able to implant information into monkeys' brains, research that could lead to brain repairs for stroke victims, according to a study published in the journal Neuron.The researchers sent "information directly into the premotor...
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Think Op-Ed: Humans Not Only Factor in Climate Change
Tonya T. Neaves, managing director for George Mason University's Centers on Public Service, writes humans are not the only factors causing climate change, and it is important to note since the conversation around climate change "has become so politicized."
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Study: Light Pollution Stealing Darkness, Impacting Health
Researchers found artificially lit surfaces around the world are spreading and growing brighter, producing more light pollution at night, according to a study posted in the journal Science Advances.
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Astronomers Find Indication of Many Planets Orbiting Solar System Closest to Ours
Many planets may exist orbiting Proxima Centaur, the nearest star to our Solar System, The Independent has reported.
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Google Teaching Its AI How Humans Behave Through YouTube
YouTube videos are being used by Google to train its artificial intelligence machines to understand human behavior, the New York Post reported Tuesday.
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Microsoft President: NKorea Behind 'WannaCry' Computer Hack
Pyongyang was behind the WannaCry computer hack that impacted nearly a quarter-million computers in 150 countries worldwide, Microsoft President Redmond Smith claimed in an interview this week.
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Why a Giant Hole Opening Up in Antarctica's Frozen Ice?
A massive hole called a polynya opened in Antarctica's Weddell Sea last month, a strange occurrence as polynyas typically don't develop deep in the ice pack, Motherboard reports.
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Scientists Find Ancient Viruses in Human DNA
An army of ancient viruses buried in our DNA is affecting human health in a variety of unexpected ways, The New York Times reported.A protein dubbed HEMO is made by a fetus and the placenta, but the gene originally came from a virus that infected mammals more than 100...