NASA is about to send its next rover to Mars: a nuclear-powered robot called Perseverance. Perseverance is expected to record the first high-quality video and audio of Mars, drill rock samples that could contain signs…

Astronauts on board the Dragon successfully docked at the International Space Station Sunday morning, 19 hours after the successful NASA-SpaceX launch. At 10:16 a.m. Eastern time, the Dragon spacecraft carrying veteran NASA astronauts Robert Behnken…

US astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken have docked with the International Space Station (ISS). Their Dragon capsule - supplied and operated by the private SpaceX company - edged them into port on the high-flying…

Elon Musk struggled to describe how he felt after SpaceX, the company he founded in 2002, launched its first people into Earth's orbit on Saturday. At 3:22 p.m. ET, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from…

SpaceX is about to launch its highest-stakes mission since Elon Musk founded the company in 2002: Its first launch of people. NASA is working with the company to launch the mission, called Demo-2, which will…

A USB drive that retails for $416 and claims to block 5G radiation was proven to be a generic drive costing around $6. 5GBioShield said their USB "blocks imbalanced electric oscillations" with "breakthrough 'quantum' holographic…

A Chinese city is proposing a permanent health tracking app that gives people a daily score based on their habits like drinking, sleeping, and walking. It would be similar to China's coronavirus tracking app, which…

SpaceX is preparing to launch its first people into orbit on Wednesday using a new Crew Dragon spaceship. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will pilot the commercial mission, called Demo-2. But the rocket…

Avi Schiffmann, a teenager in Washington State, created a coronavirus tracker website that has more than 30 million visitors each day. He turned down the chance to make millions from ads to preserve the site's…

Apple's new iPhone is getting a major redesign, according to a new Bloomberg report. This fall's iPhone is said to look like Apple's latest iPad models, albeit in a smaller form factor, with angular sides…

Early last week, Lennon Rodgers, director of the Engineering Design Innovation Lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison, got an urgent email from the university’s hospital. Could his lab make 1,000 face shields to protect staff testing…

Later this year, the world’s largest all-electric container ship is expected to take its maiden voyage, setting sail from a port in Norway and traveling down the Scandanavian coast. Known as the Yara Birkeland, the…

Police departments across the United States are paying tens of thousands of dollars apiece for access to software that identifies faces using images scraped from major web platforms like Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. The software is…

A 17-year-old intern at NASA discovered a new planet on his third day on the job. Wolf Cukier, then a junior in high school, was interning at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland when…

Pictures of Samsung's next flagship smartphone appear to have been leaked to phone news site XDA Developers. The pictures show the phone will be called the "Galaxy S20," features at least four camera lenses, and…

Chinese scientists have discovered a stellar black hole that's so large it shouldn't exist based on current theories of black-hole formation. LB-1 has a mass 70 times that of our sun, but scientists had believed…

A screen advertises facial-recognition software at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing, China, April 27, 2018. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) With the proper safeguards, it can help law enforcement catch criminals. We’ve all heard the stories:…

Google will soon offer checking accounts to consumers, becoming the latest Silicon Valley heavyweight to push into finance. The project, code-named Cache, is expected to launch next year with accounts run by Citigroup Inc. and…

NASA is sending a new rover to the moon's south pole. If successful, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) would be first spacecraft to ever land there without crashing. The rover will map the…

Flying robots that deliver packages to people’s doorsteps are no longer science fiction. Companies including Amazon.com Inc., AMZN 1.06% Alphabet Inc. GOOG 0.15% ’s Wing and Uber Technologies Inc. UBER 0.70% are starting the most…

SpaceX wants to surround Earth with a fleet of internet satellites called Starlink. Original plans called for launching nearly 12,000 satellites over the next 8 years or so. However, Space News reports that SpaceX has…

Elon Musk founded neural tech company Neuralink in 2016. This year the company showcased the technology it's developing — a chip connected to wires which fan out into the human brain, capable of both recording…