The Geminids meteor shower peaks this weekend, with hundreds of multicolored...
The Geminids meteor shower peaks on Friday night, sending up to 120 multicolored meteors across the night sky per hour. Because the moon will be almost full, only the brightest and most colorful...
View ArticleThis 20-year-old Bitcoin millionaire beamed cryptocurrency from space to a...
Erik Finman bought $1,000 worth of bitcoin at the age of 12 in 2011, when each bitcoin was $10 to $12 — today he holds 446 bitcoin, worth $3.2 million according to Friday's price.Finman completed a...
View ArticleThe center of our galaxy might have 2 supermassive black holes, not 1 — which...
Most galaxies have black holes at their centers. The gravitational pull there is so strong that neither particles or light can escape.The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy...
View ArticleNASA says Boeing's new spaceship for astronauts is ready to launch on an...
On Friday, Boeing plans to launch its new CST-100 Starliner spaceship into orbit for the first time atop a United Launch Alliance rocket.No people will ride inside the space capsule on this flight:...
View ArticleA brand-new space telescope just launched into orbit. It will take an...
A new space telescope launched into Earth orbit Wednesday morning.The CHaracterizing ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) was originally scheduled to launch on Tuesday, but the launch sequence was interrupted...
View ArticleAmazon is building a giant factory to make internet satellites and compete...
Amazon has announced a campus in Redmond, Washington, that will start building satellites in 2020.Project Kuiper, as it's called, would launch more than 3,200 satellites into space and bathe the planet...
View Article100 red objects in deep space vanished over the last 70 years. A group of...
100 red objects in deep space seem to have mysteriously vanished over the last 70 years. Researchers say the objects could be lasers that aliens use to communicate across interstellar space, or stars...
View ArticleWe're likely to find alien life in the next decade, scientists say. Here's...
NASA scientists say we're likely to find alien life in the next decade.In the next 10 years, NASA plans to launch a rover to collect rock samples on Mars, two spacecraft to visit distant ocean worlds,...
View ArticleApollo 17 astronauts returned to earth 47 years ago today. These photos tell...
47 years ago in 1972, Apollo 17 became NASA's last manned moon landing.A crew of three astronauts spent three days on the moon, taking lunar samples and walking on the surface. They landed back on...
View ArticleThe most awe-inspiring scientific discoveries of the 2010s include the first...
Astronomers, anthropologists, geologists, and many other scientists have made mind-boggling breakthroughs in the last 10 years.Some highlights include work that produced the first image of a black...
View ArticleNASA has confirmed a new class of huge 'super-puff' planets that have the...
NASA has confirmed the existence of a new class of planets called "super-puffs," which have the density of cotton candy.Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to peer at three super-puff planets...
View ArticleWe found the site where Amazon is building a giant factory to make internet...
Amazon said this week it was building a new headquarters for the company's Project Kuiper satellite initiative somewhere in Redmond, Washington, but did not reveal the location.Sources told Business...
View ArticleBoeing's launch of a new spaceship for NASA went awry, and the vehicle no...
On Friday, Boeing launched its new CST-100 Starliner spaceship built for NASA astronauts into orbit for the first time.However, Starliner encountered a problem about half an hour into its flight that...
View ArticleNASA says a clock error sent Boeing's new astronaut spaceship veering wildly...
Boeing launched its new CST-100 Starliner spaceship for NASA astronauts into orbit for the first time on Friday, though the maiden flight suffered a major glitch.The uncrewed vehicle was supposed to...
View ArticleDazzling NASA images from space show how holiday lights brighten the night...
A new e-book from NASA compiles 25 years of satellite images taken a night. Some of those images show that US cities emit more light around Christmas and New Year's.NASA researchers also found that...
View ArticleAstronomers found 6 unusual new planets, including 3 super-Earths, by...
Astronomers used a new technique to identify three stars with a total of six planets in their orbits that are slowly vaporizing.Three of these exoplanets are super-Earths that might have once been...
View ArticleWhat If: Scenarios that would change life on Earth and humanity
A perfect balance of events occurred for this planet to support life.That delicate state continues to this day where small changes can have huge impacts on the world.So what would it look like if...
View ArticleThe biggest breakthroughs in space in 2019, from the farthest object ever...
Scientists made dozens of exciting new discoveries in space this year.Unprecedented photos revealed the far side of the moon, the first black hole was captured on camera, and astronomers spotted a...
View ArticleThe most awe-inspiring scientific discoveries of the 2010s include the first...
Astronomers, anthropologists, geologists, and many other scientists have made mind-boggling breakthroughs in the last 10 years.Some highlights include work that produced the first image of a black...
View ArticleAn Iceland hostel's space pods let 'Star Wars' fans feel like they're...
Galaxy Pod Hostel in Reykjavik, Iceland, has futuristic sleeping pods in place of traditional bunk beds.The hostel's sleeping pods look worthy of being featured in "Star Wars."The pods are equipped...
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