
NASA officially announces landing site of Mars 2020 rover, and it’s incredibly interesting
It’s been many years in the making, but NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission is currently in the home stretch. Scientists and engineers are working hard …
It’s been many years in the making, but NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission is currently in the home stretch. Scientists and engineers are working hard …
The international Space Station is already quite large, but it just got a little bit bigger as the ISS crew successfully installed the Cygnus cargo …
Black holes are scary. They’re like bottomless pits that nothing can escape from, even light, and you probably wouldn’t want to get too close to …
If you’ve been paying attention to any kind of space news over the past few years, you already know that the race to Mars is …
NASA was forced to plan for the inevitable death of the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope a few weeks ago. The spacecraft, which had already discovered …
Here in my neck of the woods — the South — we got our first snow flurries this week. You know you’ve officially entered old …
A runny nose is usually a sign that you have a cold coming on, but for one North Carolina man, that cold never actually arrived. …
There are lots of interesting things to see if you stick your head under the ocean waves. There’s neat fish and crabs and, well, a …
NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover has been sitting still on Mars since June. It was then that a massive dust storm began to swallow up the …
It’s been a strange few months for Russia’s space program. First, a strange hole showed up in a Soyuz spacecraft attached to the International Space …
We might not know a whole lot about what’s going on inside Mars, the Moon, or even the deepest reaches of Earth’s oceans, but scientists …
When NASA sets its sights on a far-away galaxy, there’s often a lot to take in. Even if it only appears to be a dim …
If you’re a regular coffee drinker there’s a good chance your first taste of black coffee wasn’t an entirely pleasant one, at least according to …
If there’s one space story that 2018 will be remembered for its the numerous ongoing investigations of the first interstellar object ever to be detected …
Lately, a lot of the exoplanets discovered by astronomers have been incredibly far away. Spotting planets at a huge distance is still important, and every …
NASA has sent a number of high-tech robots to the Red Planet already, but we don’t normally hear about how things like entry and landing …
Rabies is no joke, so if you see a wild animal acting weird, it’s always a good idea to both avoid it and alert animal …
Elon Musk and SpaceX won’t be leading the reusable rocket space race long, at least not if Russia has anything to say about it. Russia’s …
The wildfire raging in California known as the Camp Fire completely destroyed the town of Paradise, claiming businesses, homes, and lives, but at least one …
Everyone knows that obesity is a major health crisis in the United States and many other countries, but humans aren’t just getting fatter, we’re also …
Hey, want a cup of coffee? I don’t actually have one to give you, but it’s a nice intro to talk about NASA’s latest photo …
You may have never heard of the solid metal cylinder known as Le Grand K, but it’s most definitely impacted your life in countless ways. …
NASA spends plenty of time peering into space, but the agency’s high-powered tools can also provide some serious help to us here on Earth. With …
The wildfires sweeping through Southern California over the past few days have been nothing short of devastating and profoundly tragic. Upwards of 31 people have …
While the debate around health insurance and “pre-existing conditions” continues to rage in political circles the U.S. government is now officially begging people to take …
SpaceX gets a whole lot of press for leading the charge in the private spaceflight industry, but there’s a number of other companies also vying …
Without the Sun, none of us would actually be here, so we should be pretty thankful that it exists at all. That being said, tumbling …
Incredibly brave and remarkably skilled, adrenaline junkies in Dubai have been flying personal jetpacks for a while now. The “Jetman” vehicles they pilot are capable …
Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching which means family gatherings, lots of laughter, and of course the traditional consumption of one particular kind of bird. But while …
Samsung TVs are already some of the most popular options for high-end home theater systems, and the company is now using its television-making prowess to …