It's designed for shooting down short-range rockets fired by ground troops or insurgents. Continue reading ?

NASA has released a video showing ammonia flakes leaking from the space station and into space. Continue reading ?

The CIA in the 1960s attempted to create 'a living, walking surveillance machine.'

A team of astronomers has taken pictures of a huge star as it forms, to find that massive stars form in exactly the same way as smaller ones like the sun. Continue reading ?

Harvard and MIT team up to create an inchworm robot that self-folds into place with little human intervention. Continue reading ?

After the X-15 pioneered air-launching suborbital spaceflights, its successor, the X-15B, was meant to go all the way. Continue reading ?

Is recovery possible when its involuntary? The answer may surprise you.

Scientists are still vexed about the mysterious deaths of an unprecedented number of baby southern right whales.

Lights strung on gill nets prevent turtles from approaching while at the same attract halibut. Continue reading ?

After the discovery of a leak of ammonia coolant supplying one of the International Space Station solar arrays on Thursday, NASA managers have decided to plan for an unscheduled spacewalk on Saturday to repair the problem. Continue readi...