NASA Forced To Delay First Mars Helicopter Flight
NASA's Perseverance mission to Mars has been pretty much perfect thus far. The rover and its tiny helicopter companion landed on the Red Planet with…
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'Mario Kart' Might Teach Us How To Solve Poverty
Looking for solutions to some of the world's biggest problems like poverty, environmental sustainability, and agricultural struggles in developing regions can be absolutely mind-bending. There…
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Elon Musk Confirms That SpaceX Is Done Trying To Catch Its Rocket Components
SpaceX has been wildly successful in just about every one of its efforts. The company was the first to make reusable rocket technology both safe…
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Scientists Just Spotted Nearly 50 Totally New Galaxies
You live on Earth. Earth is part of a planet-moon system that is part of the larger solar system. The solar system revolves around a…
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The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Gave Earth Its Rainforests, Study Says
When you imagine what the planet was like during the time of the dinosaurs it might be tempting to imagine the long-extinct creatures crawling through…
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This New Photo Shows The Scale Of The Massive Perseverance Rover
You don't even have to be a science fan or spaceflight junkie to know about NASA's Mars rovers. It's big news when the space agency…
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This Is What Rain Is Like On Other Planets
Rain on Earth is something that we've come to know well. It's relatively predictable in size and shape, and while we're noticing more extreme weather…
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This Dolphin 'Stampede' Is Absolutely Bonkers
If you hand over a chunk of cash to go on a whale-watching excursion on the ocean you can expect to see some whales, and…
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Sends Back Awesome Image Of 'Rainbow' On Mars
Rainbows are one of those things that can get just about anyone to stop and glance toward the sky. They're cool to look at and…
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Scientists Just Figured Out How Long Humans Were Apex Predators
You probably don't feel like it when you dribble some raspberry filling from your jelly donut onto your shirt on a Monday morning, but you…
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Scientists Figured Out A Cool Way To Read Your Brain
Among the many buzzy pet projects and aspirations which you sometimes hear tech moguls like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg talk about that fall outside…
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SpaceX Had To Make A Special Trip To A Farmer's House
When a rocket is launched it pushes its payload into space, but once its job is done there's always a question of where it might…
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If This Scientist Is Right, We're Going To Find Aliens Very Soon
People were dreaming of the day when we might finally discover an alien civilization long before we had the kind of telescope technology that do…
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A New Study Says Humans Might Have The Genetic Capability To Spit Venom
All living creatures evolve over the years, adapting to their immediate living conditions in order to survive. That includes humans as well, who have evolved…
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NASA Just Revealed How Much The Pandemic Has Cost Them, And It's Insane
The coronavirus pandemic set everyone back in one way or another. We've put our lives on hold for a year or more just waiting for…
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Harvard Scientists Just Discovered A Major Cause Of Baldness
We're all different in an endless number of ways. From our height to our eye color, there are things that define who each of us…
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This Hubble Image Is So Incredible You'll Swear It's Fake
Science-fiction flicks have really skewed our perception of what various features of the universe look like. It's become so easy to make fake planets, galaxies,…
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Perseverance Found A Weird Rock On Mars, And Scientists Can't Identify It
NASA's Perseverance rover has been on Mars for a little while now. It landed successfully in late February and spent a good chunk of March…
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There Are X-Rays Coming From Uranus
Uranus is big, cold, and mysterious. As the second-furthest planet from the Sun, it's rather difficult for researchers here on Earth to study it without…
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Scientists Just Beat Diamonds At Their Own Game
Diamonds are precious. They're valued for their beauty but they also have some incredible real-world applications. Thanks to its incredible hardness, diamond is often used…
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A New 'Top Predator' Dinosaur Has Been Discovered, And It's Terrifying
If you were roaming around the Southern Hemisphere roughly 80 million years ago there are a number of things you'd have to watch out for.…
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This Might Be The Wildest Thing SpaceX Has Ever Done
SpaceX's Crew Dragon has already proven itself as a safe and capable spacecraft when it lived up to NASA's standards and ferried crewed missions from…
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Did Volcanoes Make The Dinosaur Extinction Even Worse?
It's widely accepted that the primary reason dinosaurs were wiped off the face of the planet was a devastating impact from an asteroid. The Chixulub…
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SpaceX Launched Another Starship Prototype And It Crashed... Again
Stop me if you've heard this one before: SpaceX just launched one of its shiny new Starship prototypes. The spacecraft took off as planned, reached…
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The Suez Canal Ship Was Finally Freed, Thanks In Large Part To The Moon
Unless you've been living under a rock you've heard of the saga of the container ship that spent a solid week blocking the Suez Canal,…
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Tropical Storm Shocks Scientists By Shattering Record For Lowest Temperature On Earth
For us here on the surface, tropical storms usually bring a lot of wind, water, and lightning. They can range in intensity from mild to…
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If You Want A Healthy Gut, Eat This Every Day
As time marches on and we continue to learn more and more about what factors affect our health it's become abundantly clear that what happens…
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