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Space igloos, lava tubes and hobbit holes: Here are our future Martian habitatsThe discovery of liquid water on Mars is great news for would-be settlers, but we'll need more than H2O if we actually want to live there.
NASA to find out whether bacteria can hitchhike their way to MarsA helium balloon carrying a special scientific experiment will launch to the edge of space from NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility...
Volkswagen scandal: Dieselgate proves it's time to go electric, says Tesla's Elon MuskTesla founder Elon Musk has a slightly different take: Gas is dead and it's time to go electric, people.
SETI: Edward Snowden should stick to human affairs and let us figure out how to find aliensEdward Snowden may know a thing or two about encryption, but his remarks on encrypted alien signals aren't sitting quite right with SETI.
The key to colonizing Mars could be tiny green microbesIn science fiction, we find humans harvesting fields of wheat under terraformed Martian skies and growing rows of potatoes inside climate-c...
New weather app gives you local climate change forecastsWith WXshift is a data-driven "weather channel". You can plug in your city or zip code to get a detailed hourly, 7-day, or weekend weather ...
Meet the preppers who are ready for the next massive solar stormThose monster storms worry space weather scientists a lot; so much so that our government is finally beginning to listen.
What would happen if a massive solar storm hit the earth?There's an even bigger worry than wind and rain: space weather. If a massive solar storm hit us, our technology would be wiped out.
Twin Jet Nebula is a marvelous cosmic butterflyWithin the wings, starting from the star system and extending horizontally outwards like veins are two faint blue patches.
Here's why Stephen Hawking's new theory on black holes is fantastically insaneAccording to Hawking's new theory, there are two ways this situation could end: One, you become permanently stuck in a 2 dimensional hologr...
Scientists build the very first Wormhole Device - for magnets!Wormholes are wrinkles in the fabric of space and time that can connect two different places, and they have a long and colorful history.
Scientists confirm the existence of cosmic neutrinosA team of Antarctic scientists has just verified the existence of cosmic neutrinos - tiny, energetic particles that might hail from far rea...
What would happen if a massive solar storm A hit the Earth?We all know that major storms can wreak havoc, flooding cities and decimating infrastructure. But there's an even bigger worry than wind an...
This material could turn greenhouse gas into fuelIn the energy world, carbon capture technology is often seen as the Holy Grail: Imagine if we could just suck all pesky climate-changing CO...
Pluto's atmosphere is billowing away into spaceThe tail, which extends tens of thousands of miles beyond Pluto, is probably the result of solar winds charging up molecules in the planet'...
First signs of geology spotted on Pluto's surfaceAfter New Horizons makes its closest pass over Pluto's surface, the images we get back will be hundreds of times higher resolution than thi...
How did we get to Pluto so fast?On July 14th, the New Horizons spacecraft will make history when it sails past Pluto, formerly known as the ninth planet.
Rare shot of venus crossing sun may help us find alien lifeAll that our telescopes really see is a faint dip in a star's light as the shadow of a planet flutters across its path.