NASA Plans To Send Astronauts To The Moon's South Pole In Five Years
NASA is moving forward with plans to send a crewed mission to the lunar surface by 2024, a goal that will be impossible to achieve…
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China Is Sending Teens To The Desert To Simulate Life On Mars
Mars is a mostly dry, dusty, barren place. Earth, our big blue-green marble of a planet, has a few places like that too, which makes…
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Facebook Is Developing Its Own Alexa-Like Voice Assistant That Nobody Asked For
Facebook is continuing to build out new technology that promises to extend its reach and capabilities well beyond the main blue app with its simple,…
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Verizon Just Made It More Expensive To Activate Or Upgrade A Phone In-Store
Verizon appears to be incentivizing consumers to make purchases online rather than at one of its brick-and-mortar retail stores, as CNET reports that the mobile…
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Earth May Have Been Struck By An Interstellar Meteor Way Back In 2014
It was late 2017 when the astronomy world was buzzing over what appeared to be the first-ever interstellar visitor observed by mankind. It was a…
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NASA's TESS Exoplanet Hunter Found Its First Earth-Size Planet, But You Wouldn't Want To Visit
NASA's TESS exoplanet hunting telescope has been on the job for less than a year, but it's already racking up some impressive discoveries. Following the…
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Hackers Unleashed 40 Million Cyberattacks On Ecuador After Julian Assange's Arrest
Julian Assange's arrest at the end of last week by British officials who finally snatched him at the London embassy in Ecuador where he'd been…
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Nearby Exoplanet May Have The Potential To Support Life
Finding planets outside of our solar system is a challenge, and determining the size, composition, and surface conditions of such planets is more difficult still.…
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Netflix Just Added Another 10 Million Subscribers, Will Experiment With Top 10 Lists
Netflix is just out with its earnings results covering the first three months of the year, and a key highlight of the companion shareholder letter…
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NASA's Cassini Discovers Shockingly Deep Lakes On Saturn's Moon Titan
It's been well over a year since NASA's incredibly trusty Cassini probe performed its final act, plunging into Saturn's atmosphere where it was obliterated by…
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Apple Helping Rebuild Notre Dame Is A Perfect Example Of How It's Changed Under Tim Cook
Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted early Tuesday morning that the company would be donating money as a way of helping French officials rebuild the Notre…
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SpaceX Lost Its Falcon Heavy Core Booster To The Ocean
Last week, SpaceX finally accomplished something it had never done before. It launched the Falcon Heavy on its first commercial mission, and when its trio…
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NASA Sent Mice Into Space, And The Results Are Unintentionally Hilarious
At some point in the not-so-distant future, NASA and other space groups around the world will begin embarking on manned missions deeper into our solar…
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Facebook Is Copying Snapchat Again With A New Way To Browse The News Feed
Facebook's new Snapchat-like "Stories" format could be about to completely transform your News Feed, if the latest scoop from app researcher Jane Manchun Wong comes…
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The World's Largest Airplane Finally Took Off
It didn't take long for SpaceX to become a leader in commercial spaceflight. The company's reusable rocket technology makes it possible for the company to…
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This Is The Last Thing Israel's Lunar Lander Saw Before Smashing Into The Moon
Last week, Israel attempted to do something that only three other countries have accomplished in the history of mankind by landing a spacecraft on the…
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Florida Man Killed By Gigantic Pet Bird
Lots of people around the world keep birds as pets, and the vast majority of the time they pose no danger to their owners. A…
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Chinese Scientists Put Human Brain Genes In A Monkey
Everything we know about evolution tells us that humans have primate ancestors, and that the development of our complex brains is what allowed ancient humans…
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Facebook's Latest Mishap Involves Bizarre Messages Printed On Oculus Controllers
Facebook is certainly dealing with its fair share of privacy snafus at the moment, a number that's swelled considerably over the past 12 months or…
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This Is Netflix's Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Disney And Apple
This weekend, pop culture fans around the world will turn their attention again to the fictional continent of Westeros, where a bitter, treacherous fight for…
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Why Didn't Scientists Photograph The Black Hole At The Center Of The Milky Way?
After years of work and a whole lot of hype, researchers working with the Event Horizon Telescope project finally unveiled the very first image ever…
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It's Not Quite Wall-E, But MIT's Recycling Robot Can Detect Paper, Plastic, And Metal By Touch
Automating recycling seems like the smart thing to do when considering the incredible amount of waste we humans produce every year. But robots can't easily…
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Disney Just Announced A Price And Launch Date For Its Disney+ Streaming Service
We already knew the streaming wars were going to get a lot more interesting this fall, and at an investor day presentation this afternoon from…
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SpaceX Is Going To Try To Launch Its Falcon Heavy Yet Again - Watch It Live Here
It's been a rough week for the folks at SpaceX. The second-ever launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket was supposed to happen on Sunday, and…
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Oops! Israel's Beresheet Lander Crashed Into The Moon
There were only two ways the first-ever Moon landing for Israel was going to go. The country's Beresheet lander was definitely going to make it…
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LinkedIn Just Added Facebook-Style Reactions
Just because Facebook is mired in a teeming mess of scandal right now doesn't mean its competitors are completely ignoring the way the largest social…
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Watch Israel's First-Ever Moon Landing Live
It's been a number of weeks since Israel launched a privately-funded mission orbit and then land on Earth's Moon. Things got off to a bit…
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