NASA's TESS Exoplanet Hunter Just Spotted A Brand New 'Hot Saturn'
NASA TESS spacecraft has been in space for almost a year now, and it powerful imaging tools are definitely being put to work. As we…
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New Male Birth Control Pill Passes Safety Tests, And It Might Be Released Soon
Birth control options have changed a lot over the past few decades. The female birth control pill, in its various forms, has long been considered…
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Man Who Got Cancer From RoundUp Weed Killer Will Get $80 Million
Monsanto, the mega-corp that owns the popular RoundUp brand of weed killers, lost its case in federal court against a man who claims the herbicide…
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Trump Desperately Wants The US In Another Space Race That Simply Doesn't Exist
Donald Trump threw NASA for a loop shortly after taking office when he directed them to find a way to get humans back on the…
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Hubble Discovers A Mysterious Dark Spot On Neptune, And It's Getting Bigger
The mighty Jupiter gets a lot of attention for its constantly-shifting face, but it's not the only planet in our solar system with some serious…
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World's Largest Tyrannosaurus Found In Canada
The Tyrannosaurus rex is one of the most recognizable dinosaurs of all time. It's played both hero and villain many times in pop culture, and…
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Spots A Bed Of Earth-Like Pebbles
Most of the views of Mars we've seen have come from NASA's trusty rovers, and while they've shown us some pretty stunning stuff, you can…
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An Energy Drink Was Just Banned After It Was Found To Contain Viagra
The days of the energy drink craze may be behind us but sugary, vitamin-packed beverages are still pretty popular. In Zambia, Africa, one popular energy…
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NASA Forced To Cancel First All-Female Spacewalk In History Over Wardrobe Malfunction
For NASA, March 29th was going to be a history-making day at the International Space Station, with the first all-female spacewalk in human history. Astronauts…
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China Cloned One Of Its Best Police Dogs, And She Just Entered Training
Cloning was once nothing more than a plot device for science fiction writers, but today it's being used in the real world in a variety…
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NASA And ESA Are Paying Volunteers To Lie In Bed For 60 Days To Test Artificial Gravity
Regardless of what your own personal idea of a dream job might be, you have to admit that being paid to lounge around in bed…
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This Incredible NASA Snapshot Reminds Us How Gorgeous Jupiter Really Is
Jupiter, the "king" of planets in our solar system, is a hostile place you definitely wouldn't want to visit. The gas giant is a swirling…
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Scientists Find Abundance Of 500,000,000-Year-Old Fossils In China
The thing about fossils is the older they are, the rarer they are. Earth doesn't keep anything around forever, and the farther you go back…
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Nobody Knows If NASA's OSIRIS-REx Can Pull Off Its Daring Asteroid-Sampling Maneuver
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft first arrived at the large space rock known as Bennu late last year, and it's spent the first few months of 2019…
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Watch Two NASA Astronauts Make Repairs Outside The International Space Station Live
There's been a lot of anticipation for the first all-female spacewalk which is rapidly approaching on March 29th, but before that historic adventure happens there's…
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Japanese Scientists Think They Know Where The Ryugu Asteroid Came From
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has been hanging around the asteroid known as Ryugu for several months now. It first arrived in late 2018 and, in February,…
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Red Bull Scared A Bunch Of People In Los Angeles With A Fake Meteor
A meteor streaking across the skies of Los Angeles is something we've all seen at least once in a big-budget Hollywood flick, but L.A. residents…
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A Texas Home Was Completely Taken Over By Rattlesnakes, And The Video Is Horrifying
It takes a special kind of person to make a career out of removing deadly creatures from people's homes. That's exactly what Nathan Hawkins, owner of…
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Americans Would Be More Comfortable In Africa Than Anywhere Else On Earth
If you find yourself constantly tweaking your home's thermostat in search of the perfect temperature, you might save some time by just moving to eastern…
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Scientists Are Trying To Make The International Space Station's Bathroom A Little Less Gross
The International Space Station is like no other place on Earth, and not just because it's not actually on Earth at all. The orbiting laboratory…
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NASA's InSight Lander Still Has A Big Problem, And Nobody Is Quite Sure How To Fix It
One of NASA's most exciting ongoing missions is that of the InSight lander that currently calls Mars home. The robotic lander has the potential to…
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Experiment Proves That Humans Can Actually Sense Earth's Magnetic Field
Everyone knows that when you hold a compass in your hand the needle will point north thanks to Earth's magnetic field, but aside from simple…
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Space Makes Your Herpes Flare Up, Apparently
Riding into space on the top of a rocket is something that very few people ever get the opportunity to do. It's a dangerous journey,…
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Scientists Bring Woolly Mammoth Cells Back To Life
The woolly mammoth is long gone, having been pushed to extinction thousands of years ago, but in recent years, there have been no shortage of…
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Japan Is Going To Blast A Crater In An Asteroid For Science
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is doing some big things during its time at the asteroid known as Ryugu. JAXA, Japan's space program, arrived at the space…
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A Huge Fireball Exploded In The Earth's Atmosphere And Almost No One Noticed
When a space rock comes speeding down towards Earth it usually makes headlines for obvious reasons. Even smaller objects that appear in our sky have…
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Watch SpaceX Test Its Starship Heat Shields In This Wild New Video
SpaceX has already had a fairly busy month, with the recent launch and docking of the Crew Dragon at the International Space Station giving the…
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