A family in Naples, Florida, is filing a claim against NASA for damage to their home after a piece of space debris from the International Space Station tore through their roof earlier this year. NASA confirmed last week that a large piece of debris found along a path in North Carolina last May came from … Read more
Astronauts on a future mission to Mars may not make it all the way to the Red Planet and back without experiencing kidney failure, new research shows. Although not usually considered one of the biggest dangers of space travel, traveling as far as Mars could change the structure and function of astronauts’ kidneys, leading to … Read more
The Wiretap is your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy, and surveillance news. To receive it in your inbox, subscribe here. Free VPN apps endanger children’s privacy, researchers say. Getty Virtual private networks, or VPNs, are used by Internet users around the world to encrypt their web traffic and hide their IP addresses. Often they … Read more