09/19/2017
Here Are 15 All-Time Best Photos From Cassini That You Absolutely Must See
Cassini has been out there hard at work for a long time. The Saturn probe departed Earth in 1997 and spent seven years speeding across the solar system to arrive in orbit around the ringed planet in 2004.
04/20/2017
Go explore!
This Deep-Sea Fisherman Has Been Posting His Finds on Twitter, and It's Legit Terrifying
We like to say we know less about the ocean here on Earth than we do about the surface of Mars, because while we have a vague idea of its overall structure, we’ve only properly seen less than 0.05 percent of it.
04/04/2017
Could be very, very big
Scientists Have Invented a Graphene-Based Sieve That Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water
Researchers have achieved a major turning point in the quest for efficient desalination by announcing the invention of a graphene-oxide membrane that sieves salt right out of seawater.
03/27/2017
A British Teenager Has Corrected a Mistake in NASA's Data
A British school student recently contacted NASA to point out that there was an error in data recorded on the International Space Station (ISS), earning him thanks from the US space agency.
03/15/2017
Physics strikes again!
After 100 Years of Debate, Hitting Absolute Zero Has Been Declared Mathematically Impossible
After more than 100 years of debate featuring the likes of Einstein himself , physicists have finally offered up mathematical proof of the third law of thermodynamics, which states that a temperature of absolute zero cannot be physically achieved...
03/06/2017
This Crazy Gif Shows How Fast a Rocket Has to Launch From Each Planet in the Solar System
Elon Musk's private rocket company SpaceX announced Monday that it plans to launch two paying customers around the Moon in late 2018. How hard will that be to accomplish, exactly?
02/24/2017
NASA Is Planning to Send a Human Crew on the First Launch of Its Most Powerful Rocket Ever
NASA is investigating the possibility of putting astronauts on the first launch of its most powerful rocket ever – the Space Launch System (SLS) – which would dramatically speed up its plans to get humans back to the Moon, and one day to Mars.
02/23/2017
BREAKING: NASA Announces the Discovery of a Potentially Habitable 'Sister Solar System'
In one of the most significant exoplanet discoveries to date, NASA just announced that not one, but seven Earth-sized planets have been found orbiting the habitable or 'temperate zone' of a star just 39 light-years away.
01/14/2017
The Claim That Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold Water Just Got Even Weirder
Despite sounding like the most egregious contradiction in physics, hot water appears to freeze faster than cold water under certain circumstances. The phenomenon can be traced back to Aristotle himself , but after centuries of experiments...
11/23/2016
Hidden galaxy!
Astronomers Have Discovered an Unexpected Object Orbiting Our Galaxy
Scientists have discovered a hidden dwarf galaxy orbiting our own Milky Way - and it could change our understanding of how dark matter holds galaxies together.
08/10/2016
20 more days till school!!!!!........doh!