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ESA and NASA are currently working together to test systems that would deflect a lethal asteroid from hitting Earth.

Virtual reality headsets will be commercially available from Oculus Rift starting next year.

Protein and Cell issues a statement defending their decision to publish a controversial paper detailing the genetic modification of...

Stephen Hawking says humans won't survive much longer without "escaping beyond our fragile planet."

Neil deGrasse Tyson will host a panel of experts discussing whether Earth will run out of water and whether extraterrestrial life...

Geneticists in China modify the genomes of embryos for the first time in history, re-igniting an ethical debate.

The National Geographic channel has renewed Neil deGrasse Tyson's late night talk show, "Star Talk," for another season.

Now that the Large Hadron Collider is finally back on, watch what happens when the particle accelerator collides two proton beams at...

A researcher claims that intelligent beings on other planets would likely be much larger than humans, possibly an average of 650...

Japanese scientists have provided experimental evidence for Einstein's theory of quantum entanglement, or "spooky action at a...

Scientists find fixed nitrogen in Martian sediments, which means that nitrogen may be biochemically accessible.

Astronaut Scott Kelly is about to begin a year in space, and his identical twin, Mark, will undergo tests on Earth in order to observe...

With technology that holds the power to repair or enhance any human gene, ethics and safety are bound to come into question. This...

If mini black holes were detected at the Large Hadron Collider, it would provide evidence for parallel universes, superstring theory,...

Earthquake activity has allowed researchers to visualize the inside of the Earth, and it looks something like a kaleidoscopic marble:...

The votes are in, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is ready to announce the winners of their...

The UN's Action Team 14, which for the last seven years has been tasked with setting up an international response to a deadly asteroid...

Symmetry, a film by Juliette Stevens, is a full opera about the beginning of the universe that is set inside the Large Hadron...

We sadly lost contact with Rosetta's Philae lander late last year, shortly after it became the first spacecraft to land directly onto...

The WellCome Image Awards finalists were announced recently and the mind-blowing shortlist of some of the best science images of the...