Yesterday’s ISS resupply mission broke an incredible record
A resupply mission for the International Space Station, Progress MS-11, took off yesterday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, eventually docking with the space station …
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Watch a fireball tear through the sky over the Carolinas
Seeing something you’re not expecting suddenly appear in the sky can be both exciting and a little bit frightening. Whatever emotion it sparks in you, …
The negativity surrounding Tesla remains bizarrely unfair
Shares of Tesla fell by nearly 10% on Thursday after the electric automaker released delivery figures that left investors pessimistic about the company’s future growth …
Study suggests cats are capable of learning their own names
Most cat owners would tell you that their furry little friends definitely know their own names. As someone with a cat, I suppose I’d be …
Watch the International Space Station receive its massive shipment of new supplies
The International Space Station is like its own little self-contained hostel for astronauts. It’s a weird combination of laboratory, recreational area, and gathering space for …
SpaceX is going to launch the massive Falcon Heavy rocket this weekend… maybe
With all the hype surrounding the successful launch, docking, and return of the Crew Dragon capsule, and the upcoming tests of the Starhopper, you’d be …
Pilots of doomed Boeing 737 MAX fought the plane’s software and lost
New details into the horrific crash of a Boeing 737 MAX commercial airliner reveal just how messed up the plane’s flight control software really was …
With ‘Game of Thrones’ season 8 coming, Roku just added a new way to watch HBO
As of today, Roku has plugged a major hole in the premium network subscription package it started offering in January, whereby users can sign up …
Oregon college students scammed Apple out of $900,000 using fake iPhones
Apple is one of the most valuable companies on the planet, but it didn’t reach the pinnacle of consumer tech by allowing itself to be …
Warming oceans may be pushing dolphins to the brink
Scientists have been warning us for years that human activity has been slowly warming up our planet. It’s not easy to see when you’re looking …
Smuggler caught attempting to transport over 750 tarantulas to the Philippines
Smuggling contraband into a country is a dirty business, especially when the goods being illegally transported are things like drugs or weapons. A man in …
Boeing’s Starliner is officially delayed, again
It hasn’t been a great year thus far for Boeing. The company has been dealing with a whole bunch of its commercial planes being grounded …
New test shows AT&T has the fastest wireless network in the US
With the just-released results of its latest speed test measuring the fastest wireless network in America, Ookla has shaken up the familiar pattern we tend …
In case you forgot, Netflix is raising its prices next month for many users
Netflix customers in the US have been getting emails reminding them of some important news happening next month for many of them. No, it’s not …
Luckiest traveler in the history of mankind gets an entire 737 to himself
Flying might be the fastest way to travel over a long distance but you don’t have to look very hard to find plenty of reasons …
Elon Musk boasts about a ‘major improvement’ in Crew Dragon’s reusability
SpaceX has made a name for itself in the spaceflight industry by rapidly developing its own rocket technology and providing reliable ways for its clients …
Reuters: Apple Watch Series 5 will get new OLED screens from a different source
The Apple Watch is the best-selling wearable out there, with the Series 4 models delivering more advanced health features than any of its predecessors. Apple …
Here are NASA’s favorite 3D-printed Mars habitat designs
When mankind eventually makes it to Mars, it’s going to be a momentous achievement, but the travelers who first set foot on the Red Planet …
NASA is going to need more money to make Trump’s Moon dreams a reality
Last week, Donald Trump sent Mike Pence to relay a message to NASA demanding that the agency speed up its timeline for landing crewed missions …
Apple News+ is off to a strong start, based on sign-ups from the first 48 hours
There are certainly some big omissions from Apple’s new premium news bundle, Apple News+, given that media companies like The New York Times and The …
Verizon just announced the first smartphone plan designed for kids
Kids are sometimes as young as 10 when parents allow them to have their first smartphone, according to studies from recent years, which might sound …
How the International Space Station is helping find the cure to Parkinson’s disease
Health researchers around the world have been studying Parkinson’s disease for decades. It affects millions of people and, while doctors and scientists know a good …
We’re probably about to see the first-ever photograph of a black hole
Black holes are so strange that they’re kind of hard to wrap your brain around. They’re super-dense objects with gravitational pull so strong that nothing …
India shot a missile at a satellite and now the debris might hit the International Space Station
You can’t exactly see it from down here on Earth, but there’s a whole lot of junk floating around in the space around our planet. …
NASA discovers Saturn’s moons are caked in ring dust
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has long since bitten the proverbial dust, but data it sent back years ago is now revealing how actual dust affects some …
Student astronomer spots two new planets with the help of AI
Discovering planets that nobody has ever seen before is even harder than it sounds. Space telescopes from NASA and other scientific bodies have gathered an …
Facebook will finally start explaining its choices for your News Feed
One of the least understood and arguably most disliked features of the Facebook user experience is the social network’s all-important, algorithmically-sorted News Feed. For the …
Liquid crystal technology could prevent idiots from distracting pilots with laser pointers
On the long list of things you should never, ever do, shining a laser pointer at an airplane is definitely very close to the top. …
Apple is doing something in China it almost never does: Cutting iPhone prices
Apple is taking something of an unusual step to stem the tide of losses in China that the iPhone maker said at the end of …
This massive antenna is going to help NASA learn a lot about Europa
NASA has spent decades studying many of the planets in our solar system up close. Probes like Juno and Cassini have taught us a lot …
