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Impress your friends with these nerdy science jokes from the witty author of...
The biggest sci-fi hit of 2015 all began with Andy Weir and his best-selling book "The Martian," which is a thrilling survival story based on the planet Mars.Weir is a software engineer by profession...
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Here's how amazingly fast we could visit everything in the solar system if we...
For humans, the mysteriously wondrous planets and moons in our solar system are ridiculously far away and can take many years to reach.But for light traveling at 670 million mph, even the farthest...
View ArticleThese are the 3 breakthroughs that Bill Nye thinks will change the world
When asked if there was one scientific fact that blew his mind, Bill Nye, author of "Undeniable" had a whimsical response. But what about what's still to come? Nye hopes these are the 3 scientific...
View ArticleMelting glaciers are actually making our days longer
The impact of climate change extends beyond just the weather. According to Harvard University researchers, melting glaciers at the poles are slowing down the Earth's rotation, and as a result,...
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Someone published thousands of photos of historic US space missions — here...
You may think you've seen photos of the moon landing before, but you haven't like this.The 9,200 high-resolution images posted to the Project Apollo Archive were taken during every manned mission to...
View ArticleThis one-minute visualization on space junk reveals a serious problem
Right now, more than half a million pieces of man-made space junk orbit Earth, and if we don't put a stop to the ever-growing clutter, it could become too dangerous for manned travel to space.But our...
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This is Neil deGrasse Tyson's favorite science joke
If you've ever listened to StarTalk radio, then you'll know that its host, famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, definitely has a sense of humor.His humor was not lost on Business Insider when we...
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover just snapped a picture of something that's unlike...
Just in time for the holidays, NASA’sCuriosity rover is celebrating Christmas 2015 at a Red Planet Paradise — spectacular “Namib Dune.” And she marked the occasion by snapping her first ever color...
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Vladimir Putin just signed a decree to replace Russia's space agency
Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a decree abolishing Roscosmos — one of the most advanced space agencies in the world and currently NASA's only way to get astronauts to and from space.A...
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These will be the 101 best astronomical events of 2016
Here it is… our year end look at upcoming events in a sky near you.We’ve been doing this “blog post that takes four months to write” now on one platform or another every year since 2009, and every...
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The 15 best astronaut photos of 2015
There's no view of our planet quite like the one astronauts enjoy from the International Space Station (ISS).From 250 miles up, astronauts have a bird's-eye view of Earth's natural wonders. They can...
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The government wants NASA to build a $55-million deep space habitat by 2018
NASA may dream of sending humans to Mars in the coming decades, but the fact remains that nobody's really sure how we'll survive the journey or set up camp on the red planet.The Orion spacecraft that...
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Jeff Bezos dreams of 'millions of people living and working in space’
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is known for his dream of colonizing Mars, but he isn't the only tech tycoon with big plans for humanity.Jeff Bezos — Amazon's founder and CEO of the rocket company Blue Origin —...
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1,600 'potentially hazardous' asteroids could strike Earth — here's how NASA...
About 30,000 objects are floating near Earth that could strike it someday — 1,600 of which NASA has labeled "potentially hazardous."An impact by one could mean anything from broken windows to global...
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Five scientific breakthroughs we've learned from the International Space Station
The International Space Station is the longest-running continuously inhabited human outpost in space – this year it celebrated its 15th anniversary. As the ISS orbits the Earth it is essentially in a...
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The 15 most jaw-dropping images of Earth from space in 2015
Astronauts on board the International Space Station beamed back some spectacular views of Earth this year.The Earth Observations team at NASA's Johnson Space Center selected the 15 best photographs,...
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An amateur astronomer found something intriguing in the sky on Christmas Day
Although no three kings were present at the time, amateur astronomer Emmanuel Conseil discovered a "new star" or nova in the Triangulum Galaxy on Christmas Day.He made the discovery using the online...
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5 big breakthroughs scientists got out NASA's $150-billion space station
The International Space Station is the longest-running continuously inhabited human outpost in space, and this year it celebrated its 15th anniversary.As the ISS orbits the Earth it is essentially in a...
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20 of the biggest science stories of 2015
Big things happened in the science world in 2015.Researchers edited the DNA of human embryos, showing that doing so was possible. Their work had flaws, but it demonstrated that we're capable of using...
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This is what the entire universe looks like in one image
The universe is so vast it's almost impossible to picture what it might look like crammed into one field of view.But musician Pablo Carlos Budassi managed to do it by combining logarithmic maps of the...
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