April’s pink full moon will shine bright tonight – here’s how to see it
April’s pink full moon will grace our skies this week, giving way to a bright and beautiful spectacle throughout the evening of Wednesday, April 5. …
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SpaceX could launch iconic Starship rocket next week
The highly anticipated inaugural launch of SpaceX’s Starship rocket could be much closer than previously expected. We’ve known that Elon Musk’s space-based company hoped to …
Newly discovered ‘demon fire’ worms are the stuff of nightmares
Scientists have discovered a new genus of glow-in-the-dark worms they call ‘demon fire’ worms. The worms are part of a family of worms known as …
AI researcher says AI threat to humanity’s existence is ‘ridiculous’
Artificial intelligence is progressing at an insane rate — with new models like GPT-4 proving how quickly AI can improve. With this progress have come …
Old survey data could be hiding undiscovered rogue planets
A group of scientists has discovered what they believe to be rogue planets hidden in data captured between 2006 and 2014. The new planets are …
Scientists discovered fossilized footprints from before dinosaurs existed
Researchers have now uncovered proof of an ancient giant amphibian that predates the time of the dinosaurs, existing over 250 million years ago. The new …
Artemis II astronauts revealed — meet the crew of NASA’s historic Moon flyby
The Artemis II mission is set to liftoff next year, taking four astronauts around the Moon in a historic flyby of our lunar satellite. While …
Astronomers discovered a black hole so big it’s almost unbelievable
2.7 billion light years away, in a galaxy cluster known as Abell 1201, an ultramassive black hole lurks, measuring upwards of 32.7 billion times the …
Hubble spotted a bizarre space object that defies classification
Meet Z 229-15, a celestial object that depending on how you feel, could be one of three different things – all at once. Shared as …
Here’s how NASA will replace the ISS after it deorbits in 2030
Sometime within the next decade, the International Space Station will fall from orbit and plummet into the Pacific Ocean. At least, that’s the plan that …
Scientists discovered a super-sized trapdoor spider that is haunting my nightmares
In case your nightmares haven’t been flooded with enough bad things lately, scientists have discovered a new and equally terrifying trapdoor spider that’s bigger than …
Brightest gamma-ray burst ever captured continues to baffle scientists
In October 2022, spacecraft and sensors worldwide picked up what scientists are now calling the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected. It was so bright and …
NOAA scientists found mysterious heatwaves at the bottom of the ocean
The bottom of the ocean experiences heatwaves, too. That might seem like common sense, but until recently, scientists weren’t aware that ocean heatwaves spread across …
A powerful solar flare caused a radio blackout on Earth
Earth was hit by a massive X-class solar flare, creating an hour-long radio blackout in parts of southeast Asia, New Zealand, and Australia. The flare …
NASA delays the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner once more
Boeing has just not had good luck when it comes to spacecraft. The well-known company behind some of the biggest aircraft in the world has …
Scientists grew extinct woolly mammoth flesh in a lab… to make a giant meatball
The idea of digging into a juicy mammoth meatball might not sound that terrible if we were alive over 10,000 years ago. But to think …
AI pioneer admits there is a small chance AI leads to humanity’s extinction
Artificial intelligence is expanding at a terrifying rate, and our world is steadily becoming more saturated with digital systems capable of doing amazing things. While …
This rare footage of the world’s last remaining wild red wolves broke my heart
Red wolves used to roam freely from Texas to Pennsylvania. However, widespread hunting led to the death of many of the species. It became one …
Epic video shows flaming rocket debris streaking across the night sky
Last week, skywatchers spotted a swarm of fireballs streaking across the Florida sky. Thankfully, we already know where the fireballs originated from, as astronomers revealed …
Where is the James Webb space telescope located?
The James Webb space telescope is the most impressive space telescope that humanity has created so far. But, to be able to capture the telescope’s …
Dazzling photos show auroras lighting up the night sky as far south as New Mexico
An intense electromagnetic storm last week left skywatchers gazing at beautiful auroras as far south as Arizona and New Mexico. Other photographers in the southern …
Nokia plans to launch 4G internet on the Moon later this year
NASA’s Artemis missions aren’t expected to put human boots back on the Moon until 2025 at the earliest, but Nokia is already gearing up to …
4 times James Webb left us absolutely dumbfounded
We always knew that the James Webb Space Telescope would revolutionize how we looked at our universe. But I don’t think many of us realized …
James Webb did the unthinkable and measured the temperature of a rocky exoplanet
Astronomers have used James Webb to measure the temperature of a rocky exoplanet known as Trappist-1 b, a new posting from the European Space Agency …
This video of a 111,000-mile-tall plasma tornado on the sun just blew my mind
Earlier this month, astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy pointed his solar telescope at the Sun and captured a mesmerizing and terrifying sight. The result of those three …
These tiny glass Moon beads could be hiding a new source of water
Tiny glass Moon beads could be hiding a reservoir of water that astronauts can tap into when we send them back to the Moon. According …
Scientists figured out how to manipulate ‘quantum light’ for the first time in history
Manipulating anything in the world of quantum physics is tricky, but now, scientists have managed to manipulate quantum light particles that have a strong relationship …
China is searching a mile below the ocean floor for the world’s most elusive particle
Chinese scientists are searching for signs of the world’s most elusive particles. The search has taken these scientists almost a mile beneath the ocean’s surface, …
These scientists are convinced that the future can influence the past
We’ve all heard of the “consequences of our actions,” where something in our past somehow brings about something in our future. Another common way to …
New Hubble photo shows Uranus looking paler than ever
Since Hubble’s launch in 1990, NASA’s Earth-orbiting telescope has been a keen observer of any matter of things. From spotting comets and asteroids to watching …
