Food energy! Fossil colors! Marine sanctuaries! Tiny snails! Quantum computers! Dead seals! And two black holes, dancing in a sexy way! It’s your Tuesday Science Watch, where we watch science—more or less!
We’re pretty close to destroying the Earth, but good news! We might soon have the chance to transform another planet into “an immense pile of filth” — NASA announced today that it has discovered evidence of liquid water, the kind that could potentially support human life, on Mars.
Steven Tyler once sang, “Pink it’s my new obsession, pink it’s not even a question.” How wrong he was. A pink UFO was allegedly spotted hovering above the International Space Station in footage shot by NASA last week. A moment after the pink spot appears, NASA’s live stream cuts out. The nerve of NASA is astounding.
Should we all just fuck off and throw ourselves into space? Maybe. Especially if we like lettuce.
Whilst lesser news sites of the world are nattering on about the “World’s Ugliest Dog,” here is the real news: NASA has literally (Literally? Literally.) discovered a Mysterious Alien Pyramid in Space. If you don’t think that’s big news, fuck off.
At parties—which I go to a lot—the question is often raised: if you were to travel to space, what would be the one earthly thing you’d have trouble giving up? FRESH COFFEE, we all yell. Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian astronaut at the International Space Station, has proven that we will never have to go without…
You may have a seen a story going around Facebook that promises you'll be able to float in the air on January 4th as a result of a planetary alignment that will "decrease gravity" for 5 minutes. Unfortunately, it is total bullshit.
This morning, after a few hiccups yesterday, NASA sent its Orion spacecraft into orbit from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The test flight will see Orion orbiting Earth twice and landing off the coast of Baja, California four hours after taking off.
For over fourteen years, a U.S. Navy patent, no. 3899144, has been used to suggest that the federal government is secretly dispersing a powdered chemical substance in the atmosphere, for reasons that are murky and contested. It's a leap in logic nearly as old as the chemtrail conspiracy theories themselves.
Ken Ham, the young-Earth creationist minister who had his ass gently-but-firmly handed to him in a debate with Bill Nye earlier this year, has had it with "the desperate and fruitless search for extraterrestrial life." Aliens can't be real, because the Bible says Earth is special. And if they are real, they're all…
NASA completed a $150 million experiment on Saturday to test new technology that will bring spacecraft, and eventually astronauts, to Mars. Though the parachute got tangled on the way down, the experiment was declared a success.
First, Vine showed us illicit acts with a Hot Pocket, and now, Vine shows us space. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman posted the first Vine from the International Space Station over the weekend, which shows one 92-minute Earth orbit compressed into 6 seconds.
NASA's moon-orbiting LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) spacecraft is expected to make a crash landing on the moon sometime this month, after having explored its thin atmosphere and lunar dust environment since October.
Walking is the only pleasant form of traveling by land. You need no special equipment, training, money, e-tickets, antidepressants, or Twitter followers. Whatever clothes you're wearing will do fine; a hat and shoes are optional. When I've got a few days to spend somewhere, I spend them walking around. So I spent a…
That thing in the picture isn't an old granary of the side of I-95. It's a half-finished state-of-the-art test stand for a series of planned space rockets that the U.S. decided not to construct. But the stand is getting finished anyway. Enjoy it, America! You paid more than a third of a billion dollars for it.
[Above is a stunning aerial shot of an eruption of the Japanese volcano Sakurajima taken this January from the International Space Station. Wired has more of NASA's best photos of 2013.]
Yesterday NASA released this crazy GIF of a storm on Saturn where air streams move at more than 200 miles an hour. It's the only weather system of its kind in our solar system.
[The U.S. Air Force launched an Orbital Sciences Minotaur 1 Rocket into orbit from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va., on Tuesday night. According to photographer Louis Suarato, this is the rocket as seen from Albany, N.Y. Photo via Twitter]
An estimated 2.1 million people die each year from air pollution. Want to know where the most polluted (and deadly) places to live are? This NASA-created map will show you.
