Watch North Korea’s new missile soar while you contemplate the fate of humanity
After a tense few weeks of North Korea shouting at the world, launching things into the air, and many other countries subsequently shouting back, it doesn’t …
Science
Scientists finally have a decent guess as to why Earth exists
Earth is a pretty nifty place. I mean, I’ve spent my entire life here and I’m guessing you have, too, and there’s plenty to see …
Scientists just heard something really weird in space, and can’t figure out where it came from
Researchers from around the world are scratching their heads over a newly discovered radio burst detected on Earth, but with a completely unknown origin. A …
A gigantic, bloody dead thing just washed up in Indonesia and nobody knows what it is
The sea still holds great mysteries for mankind. A few examples of this are the peculiar disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle, the origins of the …
The International Space Station has sprung a leak
The International Space Station is old. The first pieces of it were sent into orbit almost two decades ago, and it’s been under near constant …
Cops are now using AI to predict crime before it happens
In a timely reminder that we’re pretty much living in a sci-fi future that writers from the 1950s could only have dreamed of, law enforcement …
This NASA photo of Saturn’s moon shows clouds you’ve never seen on Earth
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is currently conducting a series of elaborate dives in which it repeatedly comes closer to Saturn than ever before. But during its …
Scientists accidentally created a new blue, and now Crayola has to find a name for it
Colors are one of those bits of childhood knowledge that you acquire when you’re barely old enough to form coherent sentences. Once you learn the …
Gorgeous new video shows colossal plasma columns dancing on our sun’s surface
The sun — you know, that big, life-giving star that is more or less responsible for our very existence here on Earth — is one …
Scientists discover that Earth was basically one big ‘Waterworld,’ without Kevin Costner
Long before Kevin Costner and Dennis Hopper battled it out on the open seas in the mid-90s dystopian sci-fi flick Waterworld, the Earth really was …
This top-secret spaceplane just returned to Earth, and nobody knows what it did up there
There’s plenty of manmade devices floating around in space, and between communications satellites, weather-monitoring cameras, and exploratory spacecraft like Cassini, the general public is kept …
Japan’s nuclear disaster gave everyone on Earth extra radiation
It’s been over half a decade since Japan’s Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown due to the effects of a tsunami which struck the island …
NASA’s Saturn spacecraft just delivered photos so stunning you’ll think they’re fake
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft continues to delivery some truly jaw-dropping photographs from Saturn, and its most recent “Grand Finale” dive between the planet’s rings has produced …
Humanity needs to abandon Earth way sooner than you think, according to Stephen Hawking
While much of humanity concerns itself with saving the planet from the ravages mankind has inflicted upon it, one of the world’s brightest minds is …
Check out Cassini’s amazing Saturn dive from a totally new perspective
While we all wait with the utmost patience for NASA to show off the images captured by the Cassini spacecraft during its second dive through …
This bipedal running robot is the last thing you’ll see before robots claim the Earth
Robotics engineers with companies like Boston Dynamics have been hard at work on complex computer systems paired with motion sensors and gyroscopes to give their …
This NASA video will teach you more about clouds than you’ve ever wanted to know
From the perspective of us here on Earth, clouds are usually pretty boring. Sure, sometimes we spot one that looks cool or see a unique …
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft didn’t find anything, and scientists can’t believe it
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has made a big name for itself by being a reliable source of really awesome photographs of parts of Saturn and its …
Are we looking hard enough for aliens? Astronomer says no
Finding existing extraterrestrial life would undoubtedly be one of the crowning achievements of the human race, but with so much talk of the potential for …
Experts discover ‘Christopher Columbus’ anchor at Caribbean shipwreck site
EXCLUSIVE: Experts have used a “space treasure map” to make a remarkable discovery in the Caribbean — a centuries-old anchor believed to be from one …
NASA just discovered a massive tsunami of gas in space
Some of the coolest discoveries made by NASA — like the personality of Martian soil, for instance — are often so small in scale that …
Researchers built an automated robot that specializes in drilling through human skulls
One trope shared among all the fictional depictions of a futuristic robot uprising is the idea that, because we’ve taught robots so much about how humans function, …
This new battery tech breakthrough could mean even faster electric vehicles
Electric vehicles have a few key advantages over traditional combustion-powered cars, and one of the biggest is the potential for extreme acceleration. The Tesla Model …
This AI can learn your voice and mimic it in a minute or less, and that’s incredibly scary
When it comes to personal privacy and overall security, we often think of passwords, fingerprints, and even our own faces as being the keys that …
Watch SpaceX send a US spy satellite into orbit and land its rocket safely back on Earth
With a handful of successful launches and return flights of its reusable rocket system already under its belt, SpaceX is feeling pretty confident these days. …
Hubble just delivered one of the most gorgeous space photos ever
The past few weeks have been jam-packed with stunning imagery from Saturn, delivered courtesy of the Cassini spacecraft. Now, almost as if to say “Hey, …
MIT invented a robot that can 3D-print an entire building
3D printing has slowly gone from a curious novelty to a totally viable option for creating all kinds of useful things, from chocolate to athletic shoes, …
NASA’s meteorite-resistant space fabric is like futuristic chainmail
NASA is usually so busy showing off all the awesome stuff it finds out in space that it’s easy to lose track of the cool …
Scientists just discovered something awesome about the soil on Mars
Humans will one day walk on Mars and while it almost certainly won’t happen on the fever-dream timeline that Donald Trump seems to think is …
History-changing discovery suggests Homo sapiens were not the first humans in America
For decades, the accepted theory of human migration suggested that Homo sapiens arrived to America around 15,000 years ago, and that they were the very …
