ESA and NASA are teaming up to protect the Earth from a 'Deep Impact' scenario.

The Aggravating Adventures of a Gigantic Tunnel Drill

NASA announced it will partner with a variety of companies in new attempts to create more advanced space technology--including a new engine that could get humans to mars in less than 40 days.

The latest exoskeleton technology doesn't need an outside power source to boost your strength. It harnesses the power of your own muscles to put a spring in your step instead. And soon baby boomers could be using it to keep hiking and jogging just a few years longer.

NASA's Curiosity rover is using a new experiment to better understand the history of the Martian atmosphere by analyzing xenon.

It's not quite a Tesla in your living room, but Elon Musk is working on porting the electric car's advanced battery for home use. Production may begin within the next six months. Similar batteries (like that used in the Toyota Mirai) use fuel cells capable of powering a home for a week. Musk hasn't given an estimate of how long his would last, nor how it would be charged, though many solar energy enthusiasts use batteries to store solar electricity for cloudy days to prevent brown-outs.

It could be the future of aviation, British eccentric genius on a grand scale, or possibly a bit of both. Secreted in a hangar a few miles south of Bedford sits the world’s largest aircraft: a hybrid of plane, balloon and hovercraft, an airship that the company modestly says will change the world. The Airlander 10 can fly for weeks, land virtually anywhere that’s flat, and burns just a fifth of the fuel of a conventional aircraft.

It can be tempting to retrofit an older solution to add new technology or features. But just because you can ...

A Q&A about the first flight test of NASA's Orion capsule with two of the people responsible for the deep-space vehicle's development.

Robots came to Europe before the dawn of the mechanical age. To a medieval world, they were indistinguishable from magic

Engineering group to furnish airline’s new Boeing Dreamliner fleet with Trent 1000 engines.

A 780 cubic inch V8 powered AC Cobra designed by the Germans as a daily driver for Cthulhu. They’ll never admit that of course, and are still sticking to their official story that this is a car for regular humans.

Researchers at UT Dallas have created new structures that exploit the electromechanical properties of specific nanofibers to stretch to up to seven times their length, while remaining tougher than Kevlar. These structures absorb up to 98 joules per gram. Kevlar, often used to make bulletproof vests, can absorb up to 80 joules per gram. Researchers hope the structures will one day form material that can reinforce itself at points of high stress and could potentially be used in military...

To excavate mines and tunnels, we use drills and expensive machines. So how did our ancestors manage to dig hundreds of metres into the Earth?

A look at some of the stylish and practical projects competing to be crowned 2015 Design of the Year.

The Leading Edge Asynchronous Propeller Technology (LEAPTech) wing has 18 electrically powered propellers attached to it.

Built by Bodie Stroud Industries, the BSI 1956 X-100 features a classic pickup body atop an all-new chassis with a modern drivetrain and suspension.

Every year, Americans are flushing a fortune down the toilet. Literally. More than 7 million tons of biosolids—treated sewage sludge—pass through US wastewater facilities annually. Contained within our shit are surprisingly large quantities of silver, gold, and platinum. But our days of wasting human waste may be numbered, if Kathleen Smith of the US Geological Survey has anything to say about it. She’s leading a new research program that’s examining the feasibility of...

"I will not allow sabotage, I'll simply rip heads off," is never something you want your boss to say. Russia is in the process of building its first new cosmodrome—or rocket launch site—since the fall of the USSR. And it's a mess. For the past two decades, Russia's used the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in current-day Kazakhstan, which dates back to the very earliest days of Russian space flight. But not only is that launch site aging, it's also a political bee in Russia's bonnet.

Cold War rocketship Ithacus would have hauled a battalion of jet-troops anywhere — in an hour