Near the beginning of director James Cameron’s “Avatar,” a greedy businessman itching to dig a mine on the planet Pandora utters a line that set some viewers to snicker. “This is why we’re here,” he ...

Imagine building a car chassis without a blueprint or even a list of recommended construction materials. In a sense, that's precisely what a team of engineers did when they designed a one-of-a-kind ...

Imagine building a car chassis without a blueprint or even a list of recommended construction materials. In a sense, that’s precisely what a team of engineers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

If you’re a fan of Avatar movies like me, you already know what unobtainium is. For those unfamiliar, it is Pandora’s most valuable resource (from the human’s perspective) and it is the driving factor ...

SETI Institute’s senior scientist Seth Shostak recently took on some implausible elements in “Avatar” on Space.com, most notably the feasibility of mining that precious mineral worth $20 million a ...