NASA delivered some fantastic news very early this morning, announcing that the Cassini spacecraft had successfully survived the first of its “Grand Finale” dives. The …
Have you seen the Loch Ness Monster? Neither has anybody else, at least for the past eight months. Monster fanatics who dedicate themselves to studying …
Humans are messy creatures. We’ve polluted this planet to the point that it might actually be on an irreversible path towards cataclysm. As if that wasn’t …
Anyone with a laptop computer or smartphone knows all about how batteries lose their capacity over time. The day you bought it, your phone could …
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been delivering fantastic views of Saturn and its moons for many years now, and this year it will meet its ultimate …
10,000 years from now (assuming humans haven’t been wiped out by a plague, space rock, or our own destructive tendencies), it’ll probably be fairly easy …
Humans have always been endlessly fascinated with our evolutionary history, and discovering a new species of human that once roamed the Earth is certainly cause …
Mother Earth is one seriously gracious host. Humanity has done little else to the planet that produced us than completely destroy it at every turn. We dump …
Earlier today, President Trump took time out of his busy schedule to video-call the American astronauts aboard the International Space Station. In between comments on …
NASA and its spectacular space hardware often spend so much time checking out our planetary neighbors that we forget Earth offers some pretty cool photo …
Scott Van Zyl made his living taking wealthy clients on “safaris” for the sole purpose of bringing home trophies like leopards, zebras, wildebeests and even …
Think cool technology is only a recent thing? A 340-year old smart lock may change your mind. As The Verge reports, the device in the collection …
Between serving as the boss of both Tesla and SpaceX, you probably wouldn’t imagine that Elon Musk has a ton of time to devote to new …
Naked mole-rats are weird creatures. They’re a cold-blooded mammal (which is insanely rare), they have extremely low metabolism which allows them to live extremely long …
Space is big and the hardware that humans keep sending into the great beyond is comparatively small, but our habit of letting random bits of space …
It’s hard to imagine that, after thousands of years of cataloguing every living thing we come across, humans are still discovering new animals, but when …
Tonight, a particularly large asteroid is going to cruise by Earth at its closest point in 400 years, and while we humans are going to …
Tonight is a big night for skywatchers thanks to the relatively close approach of a large asteroid called 2014 JO25. The rock is slated to …
Astronaut Gordon Cooper was a born explorer. He broke countless NASA space flight records, like the longest single-man space flight, a 122-hour mission. But one …
When it comes to fears of robots taking over the world, mental images inspired by Terminator immediately spring to mind. But if robots really were …
As we get closer and closer to create artificial intelligence that can think and reason in ways that mimic a human brain it’s becoming increasingly …
Have you ever noticed that the voice-over on a fast food commercial is usually a guy, and that guy usually has a pretty deep voice? …
Shooting video from a drone can offer a unique look at the world, and that has helped drone videos become one of the most popular …
Just yesterday, NASA announced some incredibly amazing news about the Saturn moon called Enceladus, teasing the possibility that the frozen world could actually support life …
NASA doesn’t usually hold news conferences for minor discoveries or observations, so when the agency announced that it would be holding a press conference this …
If you’re one of the very, very wealthy individuals considering dropping a big chunk of change on the chance to fly into space aboard Amazon …
NASA makes exciting discoveries about the universe and nearby planets on a regular basis, but the past few months have produced a particularly steady stream …
It sounds like something Dr. Evil from Austin Powers might have come up with. But unlike sharks with laser beams attached to their heads, mind–controlled …
Many, many species of creature have come under hardship in the last 7,000 years. Some died off because they were ill-equipped, some because they were hunted — …
It might come as a bit of a surprise, considering we walk around on it all day long, but science hasn’t really ever seen fit …
