The European Space Agency has official inaugurated a centre to give early warnings in the event of a dangerous asteroid or meteor on a collision-course with Earth.

The NEO Coordination Centre is designed to strengthen the search for dangerous Near-Earth Objects (NEOs).

The ESA estimates that around 600,000...

Somebody's launched a social network for pets.

Yes, that's right - now that we have Facebook, Twitter and a thousand niche dating networks and connection websites, the only thing left is to sign up our domestic animals, give them passwords and then turn off the internet for good.

The site...

A student designer has created a prosthetic tentacle as an alternative to artificial human limbs,

Kaylene Kau from Taipei made the remarkable invention as part of a design school project.

The limb would be able to grip many different objects by curling up with the help...

What's the only thing better than Lego? Giant things made of Lego.

And what's the only thing better than that? Giant things made out of giant pieces of Lego, each made out of Lego.

That's exactly that the Danish toy company has unveiled in Times Square, New York, to 'celebrate'...

Great Scott! A petition has been launched on a government website to boost funding for the development of hover boards.

The demand has been issued on the E-Petitions website, on which the public is allowed to present issues for consideration by ministers.

It asks ministers to consider funding...

Lego and Superman are natural partners - more so than any of the Danish brick maker's other DC or Marvel superhero franchises.

That's because Superman can have a playtime role in virtually any product Lego has made. He can save planes, help the police, go back in time to battle...

Think our spring weather is bad?

Nasa says it's also spring on Saturn's moon Titan - and by comparison a bit of hail and drizzle is nothing.

The seasons take about seven years to change on Saturn's largest moon. The strange alien world was dark when Nasa's...

The ageing Mars rover Opportunity has found evidence that the conditions for ancient life once existed on the Red planet.

The six-wheeled robot has been on Mars since 2004, but it is still producing useful science.

Its remarkable longevity has astounded and delighted Nasa officials, who initially expected that it...

Astronomers have pictured a "missing link" galaxy collision in deep space which might explain what happened in the first few billion years of the universe.

The picture shows a ridiculously massive collision between two galaxies, which formed together into a single mass more than 10 times the size...

Physicists say there is now good evidence that a legion of floating space brains are not spontaneously bursting into existence throughout the universe.

For about a decade there has been a theory (really a thought experiment) that so-called Boltzmann brains - self-aware conscious entities with no external physical...

You can now talk to Google.

An upgrade to Google Chrome was announced last week which would allow you to carry on a conversation (albeit a fairly one-sided and demanding one) with your desktop search box.

Unveiling the idea at its annual I/O press conference, the search giant...

Amazon has proposed a new headquarters building for downtown Seattle - and it's pretty astounding.

The new design features three geodesic-style domes, which look like giant greenhouses.

Together with a pair of mirrored towers, the new HQ would total 3.3 million square feet of office space.

The...

Gamers have been left confused - though optimistic - after Microsoft announced it will be possible to play second-hand games on the Xbox One console. They just won't say how.

The new machine will introduce new forms of digital rights management, which tie games to user accounts and also allow...

The creator of the animated GIF has shocked the internet by declaring that it's pronounced... "jif".

That's right, while the online consensus has largely settled on the hard-G pronunciation ("gift" without the T) its inventor Steve Wilhite says we're all wrong.

Accepting a lifetime achievement award at the...

Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox One, the "next generation of entertainment in the living room".

Pitching the device as far more than a games device, Microsoft emphasised the Xbox One's ability to integrate live TV, video calling, movies, music and internet browsing on the TV.

"We put you...

Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox One, pitching it as the "next generation of entertainment in the living room".

We're got all the key details here, and more pictures of the box than you comfortably require here.

But while the combination of excellent hardware, a...

Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox One, the "next generation of entertainment in the living room".

Pitching the device as far more than a games device, Microsoft emphasised the Xbox One's ability to integrate live TV, video calling, movies, music and internet browsing on the TV.

"We put you...

Heavy metal music has done much good for the world, introducing us to the talents of Bruce Dickinson on vocals, Jeff Hanneman on guitar, and the sartorial delights of a really close-cut stonewash jean.

Unfortunately, for fans of the genre it has also been responsible for...

Fresh from unveiling the $1.1 billion deal to buy Tumblr, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has made another huge announcement - the relaunch of Flickr.

The photo storage, presentation and sharing service was purchased by Yahoo back in 2005, but in recent years its fortunes have dimmed.

Clothes you can spray on? We're tempted to say it sounds like something from a sci-fi film, though actually it sounds like something from Tomorrow's World about 20 years ago.

Either way, it's happening.

According to a report on the Discovery Channel, picked up by Oddity Central, the...