A star nursery 1,350 light years away toward the equatorial constellation of Orion has been captured for the first time by NASA. The Orion Nebula is a region that is similar to the region where the Solar System originated 4.5 billion years ago. Since the Orion nebula's newborn stars are being forme...

Boston Dynamics has introduced a new electric version of its Atlas robot, replacing the older hydraulic model with a quieter, more fluid motion system. This revamped Atlas features a more streamlined and approachable design, mirroring advances seen in robots like Agility’s Digit and Apptronik’s Apol

Join NASA Psyche Mission Co-Investigator Dr. Tim McCoy as he takes us on a journey from his first geology class to his current role as Curator-in-Charge of the US National Meteorite Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and his role on the Psyche Mission Science Team. Alon

Ostagram is based off DeepDream, a software pioneered by Google under the codename Inception and the obvious inspiration for the art style's name. What this means is that Ostagram finds patterns within images and attempts to bring these patterns together into a resulting image–a process referred to

A New Human Ancestor Discovered, Homo Naledi, within a deep and narrow cave in South Africa, Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team found fossil remains belonging to the newest member of our human family. The Homo Naledi discovery adds another exciting chapter to the human evolution story by i...

Billionaire philanthropist Elon Musk, often likened to Iron Man's Tony Stark, has hinted at a new high-speed transport he is working on that could put planes and trains out of business.

The new technology would be a travel tube with Concorde-like seating inside. The travel tubes would be launched...

The ten most ambitious mega-projects currently under development around the world, featuring: Dubai World Central Airport (United Arab Emirates); Songdo International Business District (South Korea); Tokyo-Osaka Maglev Train (Japan); Masdar City (United Arab Emirates); The Grand Canal (Nicaragua); N...

100 million pieces of “space junk” currently orbit our planet at 17,500 miles per hour. Adrift investigates the fate of these interstellar objects, which threaten to collide with and destroy satellites and spacecraft.

Director and producer Cath Le Couteur recruited Sally Potter to narrate the fil

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, directing with Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger, interrogates this question and its devastating implications in Totally Under Control. With damning testimony from public health officials and hard investigative reporting, Gibney exposes a system-w

How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide? We've never seen them directly, yet we know they are there. Lurking within dense star clusters or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy. Where they prey on stars. Or swallow planets whole....