Dutch firms are betting that hulls made with 3D printing machines will mean cheaper boats.

Dcubed GmbH, a leader in deployable space structures and In-Space Manufacturing (ISM), recently announced ...

Here on Earth, being able to 3D print replacement parts is handy, but rarely necessary. If you’ve got a broken o-ring, printing one out is just saving you a trip to the hardware store. But on the Moon ...

Slowly but surely, 3D printers are getting cheaper, better, and drastically more accessible. In the early days, there were only a few models on the market, and most of them were clunky, tricky to use, ...

More affordable than ever, 3D printers are booming for personal, professional, and educational use. Here's everything to know before you buy one, along with the top models from our hands-on testing.

We tested two professional-end desktop 3D printers in an out-of-the-box, head-to-head trial to print the same design. We chose a custom-created bracelet from design studio Nervous System ...

Since the invention of 3D printing, we’ve seen the possibilities for the technology widen, from printing household trinkets to entire houses. But in the lab, 3D printing has moved to a different level ...

You may not realize it until you've listened to one for 19 hours straight, but a 3D printer can be noisy. Much like the dot matrix printers of old, 3D printers have mechanisms that move, squeak, ...

The West Midlands Police force in the UK recently began to introduce 3D printing into its fleet workshops to produce vehicle ...

A 3D printer bound for the International Space Station in 2014 has passed a series of key microgravity flight tests, the device's builders say. Three prototype versions of space manufacturing startup ...

A few 3D printers have had a deserved reputation for bursting into flames. Most — but apparently not all — printers these days has firmware that will detect common problems that can lead to a fire ...