Watch a rocket launch from point of view of the International Space Station
Decades ago, a rocket launch was an incredibly special event, but these days, companies and space agencies around the world are sending spacecraft into the …
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You can now visit a black hole in virtual reality
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 …
These jetpack pilots are somehow even more insane than the last time we saw them
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 …
Incredible video shows driver attempting to escape hellish California wildfire
Earlier this year, wildfires raged through huge portions of California, claiming homes, businesses, and lives in the process. Those fires were eventually contained, but a …
Feast your eyes on the first 8K video shot in space
Depending on how serious you are about your home entertainment, you might not even own a 4K TV yet. If that’s the case, you can …
Russia releases video showing Soyuz rocket failure as it happened
Just yesterday the Russian space agency Roscosmos revealed that it has completed its investigation into the failure of its Soyuz rocket on a recent launch …
The robots are dancing now
As humans, it’s important to keep track of what robots are doing. We know with 99 percent certainty — thanks to Hollywood films pre-historical documentaries …
Bold beachgoers decide to dry off with the help of a few jet engines
A day at the beach is usually a pretty relaxing excursion, but tourists who find themselves at Maho Beach on the Caribbean island of Saint …
NASA crammed 60 years of achievement into just 60 seconds
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is celebrating its 60th anniversary, and it’s been a wild six decades for the many scientists, researchers, and engineers, …
These scientists were so interested in a tiny fish they totally missed a 10-foot shark
Scientists are usually pretty smart folks, but that doesn’t stop them from suffering from tunnel vision every once in a while just like the rest …
Good boy gets stuck outside, uses video doorbell to let his humans know
If you go through the trouble of installing something like a video doorbell it’s probably because you want to do human things, like see when …
Ohio’s ‘Bee Man’ tackles supersized hornet nest, doesn’t break a sweat
When most people hear what sounds like the buzzing of a wasp they tend move rapidly in the opposite direction. Not The Bee Man. No, …
Incredibly bright fireball lights up the sky over Alabama
Last year the United States was treated to a wealth of skywatching events, including the total solar eclipse that dominated science headlines in mid-summer, but …
Man catches shark, shark gets eaten by an even bigger fish, man does not catch shark
Fishing in the ocean can be a pretty interesting experience, especially when you accidentally hook a shark. That’s what happened to a fisherman aboard a …
Bright fireball streaks through the sky over Russia, causing sonic boom
It was just last week that NASA publicly revealed its plans to enhance its tracking and detection systems for smaller near-Earth objects, and now a …
Soldier steals ‘tank-like’ armored transport, leads police on surprisingly speedy chase
Running from the police is a bad idea regardless of whether you’re on foot or in a vehicle, but a member of the Virginia Army …
Pint-sized asteroid spotted just hours before slamming into Earth’s atmosphere
Generally speaking, NASA has a pretty good idea of which asteroids are hanging out in Earth’s neighborhood. Astronomers have spotted, plotted, and forecasted asteroid flybys …
Photographer captures incredible moment a bald eagle accidentally scooped up a baby fox
Mother Nature can be a pretty scary thing, especially if you’re a tiny little fox in the crosshairs of a mighty Bald Eagle. One young …
Watch lightning roll across the US in a gorgeous time-lapse video from space
Thunderstorms can produce some pretty impressive light shows for us here on Earth, but spotting it from space can prove a tricky task. Determining exactly …
Robot dragon in Disney World parade catches fire, and it was awesome
You go to Disney World — that’s the one in Florida, not the one in California, which is Disneyland and is older, and doesn’t have …
This LEGO machine will make you breakfast and maybe mess it up sometimes
Breakfast is the most overlooked meal of the day, and it’s due to the simple fact that many of us just don’t have a lot …
NASA’s next Mars mission launches on Saturday, and you can watch the pre-launch briefing live today
NASA is just a couple of days away from the launch of its next mission to Mars. The “Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and …
Watch Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin successfully launch its New Shepard rocket and totally stick the landing
SpaceX has dominated headlines so far in 2018 thanks to the successful launch of the Falcon Heavy and numerous Falcon 9 missions, but it’s not …
NASA’s 3D flyover of Jupiter’s North Pole is absolutely terrifying
Back in early March, NASA released some really stunning images that the Juno probe captured of Jupiter’s poles. The pictures were created using the spacecraft’s …
Watch SpaceX launch 10 new satellites and then try to catch its rocket’s nosecone with a boat
It’s only the end of March, but SpaceX has already had a pretty stellar year. The company successfully launched its much-hyped Falcon Heavy into space, …
A skyscraper-sized asteroid just cruised by Earth – watch it fly by in this video
As we told you last week, the “potentially hazardous” asteroid 2017 VR12 made its closest appearance early this morning. Unlike the much smaller 2018 DV1 …
If you put Coke in your car’s gas tank, bad things will happen
You don’t exactly need a deep understanding of how internal combustion engines work to know that putting something other than a combustible fuel inside of …
Cop captures meteor fireball on dash cam as it lights up the night sky
What would you do if you were driving along in the dead of night and a massive fireball streaked across the sky? Would you slam …
You’d never know this short film was shot on an iPhone X
In the aftermath of the iPhone X launch, we were understandably flooded with every kind of “iPhone X Camera vs [insert camera here]” video you …
Madman creates thermic lance ‘lightsaber,’ and you wouldn’t want to fight it
If there’s one science fiction weapon that geeks truly long for a real-world representation of more than any other, it has to be the iconic …
