SpaceX Gave California A UFO Scare With Absolutely Incredible Rocket Launch
When you read and write about space news, new NASA technologies, and alien conspiracies as much as I do, you learn to approach everything you…
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My Favorite Theory About The 'Alien Probe' Asteroid Is That Aliens Are Intentionally Ignoring Earth
You've probably seen a lot of coverage of the mysterious interstellar visitor known as Oumuamua in recent weeks. It was (and still is) a pretty…
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Paleontologists Confirm These Ancient Sea Monsters Once Patrolled Antarctic Waters
For the first time ever, scientists have discovered the 150-million-year-old remains of a well known dinosaur species in Antarctica. The discovery reveals that the ancient…
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Incredibly Creepy Skull-Shaped Asteroid Is Going To Cruise By Earth Next Year
Giant rocks hurtling through space are probably scary enough all on their own, but when one of them looks like a human skull, well, that's…
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If You Put Coke In Your Car's Gas Tank, Bad Things Will Happen
You don't exactly need a deep understanding of how internal combustion engines work to know that putting something other than a combustible fuel inside of…
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There's A Fish Orgy Happening In Mexico That's So Loud It's Making Other Animals Go Deaf
Anyone who has ever lived in an apartment complex with paper-thin walls knows that being forced to listen to your neighbors rock each other's world…
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Astronomers Think They Might Finally Know Where Saturn's Rings Came From
Of all the planets in our Solar System, Saturn is probably the most instantly-recognizable. Its massive, sweeping rings are unmistakable and striking, but where exactly…
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Scientists Are No Longer Barred From Developing Deadly Viruses, And This Will Definitely End Well
If 2017 didn't already seem like the prologue to every cautionary dystopian tale ever written, the US government has decided to lift a ban on…
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NASA Is Planning An Interstellar Mission For 2069, May Head To Nearby Alpha Centauri
Mankind hasn't yet explored some of the most interesting objects in our own solar system — heck, we still don't even know all that much…
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This Self-Healing Phone Screen Could Mean No More Shattered iPhones
I recently told you that I "ruined" my brand new iPhone X, just like many other buyers, to avoid ruining it for real. The all-screen…
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There May Be A Volcano Forming Under New England, Scientists Warn
If you're looking for a volcano there's a number of places you'd probably check first, like Hawaii or even Yellowstone National Park, but new data…
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Breakthrough Discovery Reveals Life On Earth Existed Over 3.5 Billion Years Ago
One of humanity's most burning questions has always been whether or not we're alone in the universe and whether life exists somewhere other than Earth.…
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That Weird 'Alien Probe' Asteroid Might Not Be An Asteroid After All
When astronomers first spotted the odd, cigar-shaped object later determined to be the asteroid Oumuamua a couple of months back, initial observations suggested it was…
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The US Government Spent $22 Million To Investigate UFOs, But Won't Tell Us What They Found
Do aliens exist, and have they visited Earth? That might sound like a question that conspiracy theorists mull over in obscure chatrooms and internet forums,…
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Meet The Researchers Who Used TV Episodes Of CSI To Train Artificial Intelligence
Federal lawmakers want to have a say in defining artificial intelligence. Researchers are now using TV shows to feed the predictive capability of an AI…
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Researchers Thought This Furry Little Marsupial Was Extinct For 100 Years, Until It Came To Find Them
It's obviously not often that scientists get good news regarding regionally extinct creatures. Once an animal has been seemingly wiped from its natural home, the…
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MIT Just Created Living Plants That Glow Like A Lamp, And Could Grow Glowing Trees To Replace Streetlights
The modern world has been reinventing our relationship with energy for some time now. Cars are turning away from fossil fuels and relying ever more…
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Scientists Find Incredible Shark That May Be Over 500 Years Old And Still Kicking
What were you doing 500 years ago? Oh, that's right nothing, because you didn't exist yet. In fact, several generations of your family had yet…
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Watch NASA's Exciting, Mysterious New Exoplanet News And Google Partnership Announcement Live Right Here
NASA regularly rolls out news about its discoveries, theories, and studies, and most of the time they do so with very little fanfare. When the…
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Could That Strange Object That Just Zipped Through Our Solar System Have Been An Alien Probe?
Back in mid-November, scientists revealed that a peculiar object whizzed through our Solar System a month prior. It swooped in from such an extreme angle…
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Archaeologists Discover A Crude Ancient Weapon That Could Kill A Man With A Single Blow
When an ancient wooden club was yanked from its watery grave in the River Thames in England many months ago, archaeologists didn't quite know what…
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Researchers Find Ancient Ticks Full Of Dinosaur Blood, But Don't Dream Of Jurassic Park Just Yet
Researchers working with ancient amber thought to be nearly 100 million years old have discovered something that sounds like the beginning of a new chapter…
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NASA's Juno Discovers Jupiter's Most Colossal Storm Is Even More Intense Than Anyone Imagined
Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System, and aside from Earth and perhaps Saturn it's also the most recognizable. But unlike Earth or…
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Trump Signs Directive Pushing NASA To Send Astronauts Back To The Moon, But There's A Catch
The US space program hasn't sent astronauts to the moon since the early 1970s, but if Donald Trump has his way, NASA will be once…
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Scientists Obtain Tasmanian Tiger Genome, And Might Even Bring It Back From Extinction
Earth lost a truly unique species when Benjamin, the last known thylacine — commonly called the Tasmanian tiger — died in captivity in early September…
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Ancient Mummy Gets CT Scan After 2,000 Years, Is Diagnosed With Cancer
Modern medicine can be a truly amazing thing, extending and in sometimes outright saving the lives of people who would otherwise meet untimely ends. For…
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Scientists Claim Humans Have Peaked, And Will Never Be Taller, Stronger, Or Live Longer Than We Do Today
If you look at the entire timeline of human existence, we live longer in modern times than we ever have, and we're continually beating world…
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