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​NASA has announced the selection of five conceptual planetary exploration missions for further study ahead of a potential launch date of 2020.

It's possible that the world's super-rich could eventually get bored of cruising the same ol' places. Reaching more remote locations, however, would take a special kind of yacht ... and that's just what the ice-breaking SeaXplorer is intended to be.

Daimler Trucks' progress in autonomous driving has just shifted gears, with the company fitting its a self-driving system to a Mercedez-Benz Actros to steer the truck down a stretch of the Autobahn, marking the first time an autonomous series production semi has been tested out on public roads.

ESA's Rosetta probe has shown that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's southern hemisphere was hidden in a darkness from a winter that lasts over five years and hides ice in larger amounts than the rest of the comet.

NASA has released the highest resolution images to date of Pluto's moon Charon. The images were taken by the New Horizons spacecraft during its July 14 flyby of the dwarf planet as part of an ongoing data transfer.

For several years, Suunto's Ambit series has comprised some venerable navigation watch performers, but not every outdoor user needs a high-powered, multi-sport wrist computer. For "aspiring outdoor enthusiasts", Suunto adds the new Traverse.

After Samsung blasted out five smartwatches in the span of a year, the company took more time with its latest watch, the Gear S2. Out of the box, it's already clear that the extra TLC paid off: this is easily Samsung's best watch to date.

In a bid to help bring greater access to clean drinking water to the developing world, WaterStillar has created a modular solar-distillation system designed to produce clean drinking water from almost any source.

With some of entertainment's most iconic vehicles up for auction, such as a "General Lee" 1969 Dodge Charger from the Dukes of Hazzard, it might come as some surprise that a small model of a spaceship outstripped them all. Well, until you consider the devotion of a true Star Wars fan that is.

Chinese architecture and design collective Penda reckons bamboo should be a more widespread construction material than it currently is. To promote this view, the firm recently produced the Rising Canes Pavilion for this year's Beijing Design Week.

DARPA's ElectRx project envisions tiny devices, the width of a single nerve strand, that could be injected into the body to monitor certain conditions and then stimulate targeted nerves in response, harnessing the body’s own repair mechanisms.

Casa MJE is a flexible vacation home that aims to offer every inch of space to its owners. Thanks to its clever movable walls and folding furniture, the apartment can be configured to offer two bedrooms, one bedroom, or no bedrooms at all.