Lockheed Martin will turn Space Shuttle capsule into Mars habitat

Last week, Lockheed Martin announced that it would start Phase II of its Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) contract with NASA. This...
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Scientists want to transform sidewalks into giant batteries

Researchers from the California Energy Commission are carrying out two pilot studies on piezoelectric crystals, a type of technology that can capture vibrations produced...
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NASA: Get ready for the August 21 total solar eclipse

On Thursday, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured the partial solar eclipse that was visible in the United States that afternoon. Millions of people...
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New lithium-glass battery could have saved Samsung Billions

A team of University of Texas engineers, led by Professor John Goodenough, has developed a new lithium-glass battery that could displace current lithium-ion standards....
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Harvard expert discovers LHS 1140b, a “habitable” exoplanet

Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a new exoplanet named LHS 1140b. This ‘super-Earth’ orbits a red dwarf just 39 light years...
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Asteroid 2014 JO25 will safely fly by Earth on April 19

Space agencies and astronomers around the world will set their sights on the night sky on Wednesday, April 19, as Asteroid 2014 JO25 safely...
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Experts “photograph” dark matter for the first time in history

Researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada, have captured the first image of dark matter. The composite image showing a dark matter web linking...
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NASA says 2 moons in the Milky Way probably have Alien...

NASA scientists leading the Cassini mission to Saturn’s moons have found evidence of hydrothermal vents lying beneath the surface of Enceladus, and it has all...
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This is how Blue Origin will take tourists to space in...

Blue Origin released new pictures of the New Shepard capsule on Wednesday, detailing the seats, windows, and more. Space tourists could ride the pod...
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Oxford researchers aim to create robots to grow human skin

This month, biomedical researchers Pierre-Alexis Mouthuy and Andrew Carr published an article about using robots for regenerative medicine. The pair explains that robotics have...