NASA's New Horizons Zoomed Past Ultima Thule, And Now We Wait
NASA kicked off the new year with a midnight flyby of the most distant Solar System object ever visited by a manmade spacecraft. New Horizons…
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China Will Start Off 2019 By Landing On The Moon
Many of us like to start off a new year by doing something special. Oftentimes it's setting a lofty goal we'd like to achieve over…
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Strapping A High-Speed Camera To A Lawnmower Blade Is The Best Idea Anyone Has Ever Had
People (including myself) love slow-motion videos and we also tend to love watching things being destroyed. Lawnmowers are really, really good at destroying things, but…
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Scientists Invent A Way To Turn Copper Into A Gold Analog
Gold is one of the most highly sought after materials on the planet, so inventing a way to turn a much more abundant material, like…
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Study Finds Rich People Are Generous As Long As They Feel Like They're In Charge
The holidays are supposed to be a time for giving and, as we've seen in a number of instances, sometimes people with disposable income really…
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Short Patients Are More Likely To Die In Intensive Care, And Researchers Don't Know Why
If you end up in the intensive care unit of a hospital or clinic there's a number of things that can affect your eventual outcome.…
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Indonesian Volcano That Produced Monster Tsunami Has Been Obliterated
Over the weekend a volcano in Indonesia erupted and spawned a tsunami that slammed into the island nation and claimed hundreds of lives. There was…
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NASA Wants You To Celebrate New Years With Its New Horizons Space Probe
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has been speeding through space since early 2006 and it's about to make what might be its most interesting flyby to…
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What Does It Mean If The Hole In The ISS Was Drilled From The Inside?
There isn't much contest for the most bizarre space news story of the year. If anyone were to give away such an award it would…
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Russia Says There's No Defense Against Its New Hypersonic Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
While much of the West was still recovering from holiday meals and cleaning up scraps of wrapping paper from the floor, Russian military officials were…
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Apollo Astronaut Thinks Sending Humans To Mars Is 'Almost Ridiculous'
Mars is the hottest topic in the space science world these days, with new rovers, orbiters, and landers finding out new and exciting things about…
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Russia Says The Mysterious Hole In Its Soyuz Rocket May Have Been Sabotage
We already knew that Russia was in the midst of an incredibly deep investigation into the origins of a strange hole that was found in…
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You Probably Won't Like Where Your State Lands In 2018's Ranking Of The Healthiest US States
As 2018 comes to a close we are treated to many of the year-end polls and surveys and rankings that accompany the end of any…
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NASA's New Horizons Is Poised For A Historic New Year's Day Flyby
It was back in August that NASA showed off images from its New Horizons spacecraft which had just spotted its next flyby target sitting a…
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An Asteroid Shaped Like A Giant Hippopotamus Just Flew By Earth
The holiday season means seeing friends and family that you might not see all that often throughout the rest of the year, and the same…
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Uranus Was Slammed By An Object Twice The Size Of Earth
It's been a big year for Uranus. We've learned quite a bit about the planet thanks to new research efforts aimed at explaining why it…
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Hubble Snaps Gorgeous Image Of Epic 'Holiday Wreath' In Space
Science never stops for NASA but while space observation and research continues regardless of the season or special occasions, the space agency still likes to…
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This Bright, Hazy Blue Blob Is The Brightest Comet To Visit Earth In 2018
For astronomers, spotting things at huge distances is all part of the gig, but sometimes our Solar System takes care of the hard work by…
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This 195-Gigapixel Photo Of Shanghai Is So Huge You Can Zoom In From Miles Away And See People's Faces
Smartphone cameras have gotten so good that we struggle to find a reason to invest in a point-and-shoot, but there are still major advancements being…
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The Mars InSight Robot Just Placed Its First Instrument On Mars' Surface
NASA's Mars InSight mission is moving along at a rapid pace. After landing on the planet just a few weeks ago, InSight has spent its…
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Teenage 'Biohacker' Injects Himself With DNA Translations Of The Bible And Koran
The relentless march of technology has made it possible for people do some interesting things to their own bodies, but injecting potentially harmful DNA just…
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This Mars Crater Will Definitely Have A White Christmas
As we creep ever closer to December 25th, there are plenty of people in the United States and abroad that are hoping there's at least…
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We Can Finally Explain The Bizarre Light Streak That Appeared In The Sky Above Northern California
Several of this week's planned rocket launches ended up being hit with last-second aborts and delays, but that didn't stop Mother Nature from giving California…
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A 'Firework Deathstar' Is As Awesome As It Sounds
Awesome: extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear. It's a word that gets overused on the internet (probably by me), but I would…
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The Internet Is Obsessed With This Feline Optical Illusion
While you were spending your Memorial Day honoring those who lost their lives fighting for their country, or barbecuing, or shopping online, or doing whatever…
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Your iPhone Could Look So Much Better Than It Does Right Now
My iPhone looks so much better than yours. Sure the hardware is the same and so is the software, for the most part. But instead…
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ISIS Launches An Official Android App For Kids (Yes, Really)
The sadistic Islamic fundamentalists who run Islamic State are some of the absolute worst people in the world... but that doesn't mean they can't have soft…
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