“It’s about being a multi-planet species and have life extend beyond the solar system.”

New ultra-thin meta-lenses developed by Harvard University researchers are more efficient and manufacturer than lenses currently used in a variety of imaging products.

The backers hope that the project can send tiny rockets 25 trillion miles into space in just 20 years and send back pictures, potentially showing worlds that could support life

For all of our networked devices and the technology that allows us to communicate with people wherever they are, no matter where we are and when we want, we still want to meet face-to-face… once in a while. In the future, we may hop in a driverless car. Or if the journey is a little longer, we may need to fly. But heading out to airports can be a trek in itself. It's not what you would call convenient.

Some of the world's biggest social media firms signed up to a new EU code of conduct on Tuesday, promising to "quickly and efficiently" identify and remove online material that incites violence or hate.

NASA's new addition to the International Space Station (ISS) created the first pump-up compartment for astronauts. The flexible habitat, known as the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), took more than seven hours to inflate, during which astronaut Jeff Williams released short blasts of air into the pod's walls using a manual valve.

An analysis of radar images that penetrated the polar ice caps of Mars shows that Earth's nearest neighbor is coming out of an ice age that is part of an ongoing cycle of climate change, scientists said on Thursday.