NASA is developing its first planetary-defense mission to combat potential threats from rogue asteroids.
— Space.com

When you hear that the world’s largest robot has gone live in Australia, your mind might conjure up something like an anime-style giant mech.
— Digital Trends

Artificial intelligence could one day change the lives of people facing an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, according to a new study by researchers at UC, San Francisco.
— Fast Company

The software allows the FBI to go through video surveillance footage much faster than agents can.
— Nextgov

Scientists have re-engineered photosynthesis, the foundation of life on Earth, creating genetically modified plants that grow faster and bigger.
— NPR.org

Spaceman André Kuipers has told how he accidentally missed out a number when he was trying to call home - and dialed emergency services in the US.
— The Sun

A number of flying car designs will be on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
— PhysOrg.com

The double-walled structure guarded a port that sent elephants to war.
— LiveScience

In the U.S., 5.3 million gallons of toxic embalming fluid are buried every year.
— Earther

The controversial start-up company charged people $8,000 to participate in a "clinical trial."
— Oddity Central

Frank Stranges maintained that, from 1959 onward, he had extensive contact with a human-looking extraterrestrial.
— Mysterious Universe

Craft is carrying instruments to analyze the unexplored region's geology, as well to conduct biological experiments.
— BBC News

Researchers can now conduct experiments that tell us about the geology and hydrology of a hidden subglacial world.
— Science Alert

Alexandr Dmitriev frequently posts viral photos and videos of the three-year-old wild cat named Messi.
— DailyMail.com

Primitive rock paintings and fossils excavated from the region suggest that the Sahara was once a relatively verdant oasis.
— PhysOrg.com

A South African man wearing an oxygen mask and lying on a hospital stretcher can be heard barking incessantly.
— Oddity Central

A new hoard of 1,400 tablets from a lost city in Iraq, and new clues to a massive void in the Great Pyramid are among the possibilities.
— LiveScience

The Minneapolis Journal newspaper solicited stories from its kid-readers about anything involving the number 19.
— Paleofuture

Atlas Obscura staff make their expert predictions for what's around the corner.
— Atlas Obscura

Gibsonton, FL originally started as a camp for circus performers and steadily grew over the years.
— Mysterious Universe

The object is made up of two roughly spherical bodies that collided and stuck together during the birth of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
— CBS News

A fifth of Earth’s geologic history might have vanished because planet-wide glaciers buried the evidence.
— National Geographic

To celebrate New Horizons' visit to Ultima Thule, the mission team threw an epic New Year's Eve party.
— Space.com

What once was science fiction, now looks more like our near future.
— Mel Magazine

Hoba West, or the Hoba meteorite, in Namibia measures 8.9×8.9×3 feet, with an estimated mass at over 60 tons.
— The Vintage News

Johannes Hevelius drew some of the first maps of the moon from his homemade rooftop observatory in the Kingdom of Poland.
— Smithsonian.com

Uppsala University researchers have devised a new model for the universe – one that may solve the enigma of dark energy.
— Phys.Org

Rendlesham Forest UFO 'landing' was a prank SAS tricksters played on US Airmen, insiders claim.
— DailyMail.com

Every year, researchers find ever more mystifying discoveries about the universe we live in.
— LiveScience

Futurist Julia Mossbridge promotes an ethical 'precog' community.
— Times of Israel