NASA just released this incredible video of what it was like to fly over...
Earlier this year, NASA made history by sending the first unmanned spacecraft to one of the farthest worlds in our solar system: Pluto.Now, the agency has released this incredible video, made from real...
View ArticleAmazing space photos of alien objects that look eerily familiar
From the man in the moon to Greek gods among the stars, humans have long been discovering familiar forms in the heavens.There's a word for this phenomenon of seeing patterns that don't exist:...
View ArticleHere's when SpaceX will announce its next historic rocket launch
Earlier this year, Elon Musk's burgeoning space company SpaceX suffered a tragic setback when one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded in spectacular fashion.Until then, SpaceX had a flawless launch record...
View ArticleIf we live in one of multiple universes, here's how we could find out
The existence of parallel universes may seem like something cooked up by science fiction writers, with little relevance to modern theoretical physics.But the idea that we live in a "multiverse" made up...
View ArticleThis 3-minute animation will change the way you see the universe
Carl Sagan told us that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of the Earth's beaches. At the same time, there are more H2O molecules in just 10 drops of water than...
View ArticleRussia just announced it's going back to the moon
Over 40 years have passed since any human has walked on the moon, and all of them were American.Russia has some grand plans to change that as the US turns its attention to Mars.Roscosmos, the Russian...
View ArticleAstronomers suggest that the Milky Way is not the most friendly place for life
The search for extraterrestrial life is surely one of the most important tasks we humans can undertake.However, the cosmos is vast and we don’t really have any idea which bits of it are actually...
View ArticleElon Musk says there's 'no such thing' as a business
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk seems to have his hands in every industry these days. You could argue he's one of the savviest businessmen around.But when Musk sat down with Wait But Why's Tim...
View ArticleGet inside the largest orbiting space laboratory in history
Thanks to the efforts of European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, you can share the dizzying experience of floating through the International Space Station's many modules.Watch NASA...
View ArticleA strange cloud formed after a rocket launch and mystified those who saw it
Before dawn on September 2, an Atlas V rocket took off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.The launch was a complete success, but it left behind a strange, colorful, and oddly-shaped plume...
View ArticleSpaceX is working on a 'pizza box' that should scare your internet company
Bringing cheap, high-speed internet access to every inch of the Earth would change the world as we know it. And probably anger your internet company.In January, entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that's...
View ArticleSpaceX is working on a 'pizza box' that should scare your internet company
Bringing cheap, high-speed internet access to every inch of the Earth would change the world as we know it. And probably anger your internet company.In January, entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that's...
View ArticleNASA is 'puzzled' by its best photo yet of these mysterious white spots in space
We just got our best look yet at a strange cluster of bright spots on Ceres, a dwarf planet in the Asteroid Belt, that scientists have spent months puzzling over.NASA's Dawn spacecraft returned the...
View ArticleWatch Neil Armstrong narrowly escape this explosive test-flight crash one...
Before he became the first person to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong nearly lost his life in a fiery test-flight crash in 1968.In a video provided by NASA, the terrifying incident shows how the...
View ArticleElon Musk says the fastest way to make Mars livable is to nuke it
Billionaire Elon Musk wants to change the world. And with his hands in industries like rocket technology, electric cars, and solar energy, it seems like he could really do it.But when Musk appeared on...
View ArticleA mysterious 'Planet X' may be hiding behind Pluto
Humans have explored only a tiny, tiny fraction of the universe, so we can't rule out the possibility objects exist out there that we haven't seen yet — even giant planets right in our backyard.You can...
View ArticleThe last solar eclipse of the year is this weekend — here's how to watch
This is a great month for eclipses and kicking it off right is the partial solar eclipse happening this Sunday, Sep. 13.It's the last solar eclipse of the year, and the next won't come around until...
View ArticleReusable rockets are the key to interplanetary travel, according to Elon Musk
Flying to space will, some day, be as simple as flying across an ocean. Humans will live on other worlds, expanding the species to multiple planets.But this vision won't happen if we can't make the...
View ArticleJust when we thought Pluto couldn't get any weirder, NASA released these new...
NASA has released a fresh batch of Pluto photos, and they are exquisite.We're just now seeing them — months after we first encountered the dwarf planet — because the New Horizons spacecraft can only...
View ArticleWe're getting closer to space-based solar panels that could beam unlimited...
Sea levels are rising, glaciers are melting, and extreme weather is becoming the norm. The negative effects of man-made climate change are here to stay — and they're getting worse.Luckily for the...
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