
Humanity will slam a spacecraft into an asteroid in a few years to help save us all
NASA is developing its first planetary-defense mission to combat potential threats from rogue asteroids.
— Space.com
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
Author Charles Pellegrino discussed the atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his ecological disaster novel Dust about an ecological...
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