A Chinese space station called Tiangong-1, or “Heavenly Palace,” is about to crash to Earth. The 9.4-ton spacecraft will fall from the sky around April 1, break up, and sprinkle debris over Earth’s surface. Objects as large as Tiangong-1 can tumble and “skip” off the atmosphere. These and other factors make advanced predictions of a …

When Canadian engineers Omar Eleryan and Simon Czarnota first tried flying a regular drone, they were put off by how big, loud, hard to control and potentially dangerous it was. That prompted them to form Cleo Robotics, and develop the donut-shaped Cleo drone. Recently showcased at CES, the Cleo fits in a pocket, is controlled …

NASA’s Curiosity rover has passed yet another impressive milestone, having spent 2,000 Martian days exploring one of the most enigmatic and fascinating worlds populating our solar system. Following an ambitious descent through Mars’ tenuous atmosphere in August 2012, Curiosity has been slowly but deliberately trundling around a 96-mile-wide (154 km) impact crater in search of …

It’s really quite astonishing that more research and development isn’t being done in the area of water-borne housing: 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is water, the world’s already overcrowded population will grow from 7 to 9 billion in the next 20 years, 75 percent of the world’s megacities are on the water … the …

Nasa could use paint to defend our planet from a doomsday asteroid that may wipe out life on Earth, according to one of the agency’s top engineers. It was recently revealed that the rogue space rock 101955 Bennu, which is larger than the Empire State Building, could collide with our planet in 2135. Dr Michael …