Surprise! There's A Quadrillion Tons Of Diamonds Lying Beneath Your Feet
Finding a diamond on the ground would make anyone's day. Depending on its quality, you might be able to sell it for a nice little…
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23 Injured After Hawaii Lava-Viewing Boat Encounters Lava
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been erupting since May, but despite the awe-inspiring magnitude of the lava flows, injuries have been remarkably few thanks to the…
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Brilliant Activists Turned River Trash Into A Floating Park, And It's Awesome
We've already established that mankind has a big, big problem cleaning up after itself, but there's at least a small percentage of humans who are…
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Archaeologists Find World's Oldest, Stalest Bread, And It Predates Agriculture
We take bread for granted these days but exactly when it popped up in the timeline of human advancement is still a bit of a…
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NASA Finds 'Spiders' On Mars, But Not The Kind You're Thinking
The search for evidence of past life on Mars is a long, complicated endeavor that NASA has devoted an incredible amount of time and money…
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You Probably Shouldn't Eat Crab Meat For A Little While
Another day, another dire warning about food that you probably should avoid for a while. Last week the FDA and CDC told everyone to stop…
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Venus Photobombed The Moon Last Night, And Everyone Loved It
If you're staring at the sky on a clear night it's usually pretty easy to spot the Moon, but we often forget that it's sometimes…
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Giant 'Plant From Hell' Sends 17-Year-Old To The Hospital With Third-Degree Burns
The Giant Hogweed is a terrible, no-good, dangerous plant. It also happens to be spreading across the United States with shocking speed, and just touching…
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Full-Color 3D X-Rays Are The Future, And Here's What They Look Like
For all the advancements in body-scanning medical technology, X-rays still tend to be pretty boring to look at. They're more accurate than ever, providing plenty…
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Watch Cape Canaveral's Iconic Launch Towers Crumble In Early-Morning Demolition
Cape Canaveral has always been a cherished place for the US space program, having hosting some of the most important space missions stretching back decades.…
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Oops! NASA Might Have Destroyed Proof Of Life On Mars On Accident Decades Ago
Finding proof that life once existed on Mars would be one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs in the history of mankind, which is why NASA…
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New Telescope Camera Snaps Gorgeous Image Of Distant Star Cluster
NASA regularly delivers outer space eye candy snapped with its various telescopes, but the European Southern Observatory has plenty of star-gazing power as well, and…
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The Oldest Known Color Made By A Living Creature On Earth Is Not What You'd Guess
Today, when you look around the Earth, you see a lot of green. It's easy to imagine that things were the same before humans or…
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Video Captures Fireball Streaking Across The Midwestern US, Visible From 10 States
Skywatchers in 10 states in the Midwestern United States got a treat early on Sunday evening as a fireball careened through the atmosphere and produced…
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The Brightest Object In The Universe Was Just Discovered, But Is It Still There?
Space is dark, which makes finding bright things like stars pretty darn easy. It also makes it possible for high-powered telescopes to spot things that…
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Check Out The Insane Heat Shield NASA Just Installed On The Parker Solar Probe
The Parker Solar Probe is going to get close to the Sun than any spacecraft mankind has ever launched into space. It's going to study…
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Scientists Just Discovered That Spiders Can Fly Using Electricity, Spawning Fresh Nightmare Fuel
Some animals were born to fly, but most were not. Humans have no business in the air but we've come up with a number of…
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Against All Odds, NASA May Have Actually Found A Meteorite On The Bottom Of The Ocean
Three days ago, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration teamed up with NASA in the hopes of finding leftover chunks of a meteorite…
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Man, Space Is Huge
Size is relative. A carpenter ant is huge compared to a regular ant, but it's still tiny when compared to, say, your foot. The challenge…
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NASA Is About To Test 'Quiet' Sonic Booms Over Texas
Humans have already mastered the art of going really really fast in the sky, and modern technology has made topping the speed of sound a…
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Outer Space Has Way Better Fireworks Than We Ever Will
Well, it's the Fourth of July, which means sunburns, cookouts, and lots of questionable fuses being lit from coast to coast. But whether you'll be…
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Happy Fourth Of July From The International Space Station!
The International Space Station is, as its name implies, a common ground for astronauts from many different countries, but that doesn't stop them from having…
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NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Just Got Closer To Dwarf Planet Ceres Than Ever Before, And Here's What It Looks Like
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is one that we don't hear from very often these days, mainly because it spent seven years on its way to dwarf…
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NASA's Latest Photo Of Jupiter Is Pretty Enough To Be Your Desktop Wallpaper
Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System by a pretty wide margin, and while it's not exactly the most welcoming to human visitors,…
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A Massive Object Devastated Uranus A Long Time Ago And It Never Fully Recovered
Our Solar System is a pretty calm place these days, all things considered, but that wasn't always the case. In the period when the planets…
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Watch Live As NASA Scientists Hunt For Meteorites In The Pacific Ocean
NASA loves looking for cool stuff in space, but every once in a while something from space ends up here on Earth. That was the…
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Hawaii's Proposed Sunscreen Ban Is Expected To Become Law This Week
Hawaii is known for its seemingly endless expanse of sunny beaches, so it's obviously not the kind of place you'd want to find yourself without…
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