As we get closer to the idea of space tourism becoming a reality, the one constant question has been: "Who is rich enough to afford...

If Breaking Bad did anything for science literacy, it was introducing the name 'Heisenberg' into pop culture. For those of you who...

There's only one emotional gut-punch worse than being told you have cancer, and that's being told your cancer came from...

Getting high while you're getting high—it's the easiest stoner joke to make about pilots or astronauts hypothetically consuming a...

No matter the time or place, if there's one thing that history has taught us it's that human beings are dirtbags. We have been killing...

Reality is turning into a battleground, just like dystopian fiction said it would: a new study has found that Russian agents were...

When most people hear the words "biological clock" they think of the push for someone to settle down and start a family before it's...

Despite the scandals swirling around Elon Musk, which now range from smoking a spliff on a live podcast to calling a British cave...

You can be forgiven for mistaking the name "Cresta" for a kind of toothpaste or pharmaceutical--though the company's focus is...

According to a recent study led by University of Florida astronomer Jian Ge and published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...

Over in Sunspot, New Mexico last week, the National Solar Observatory raised a few eyebrows when the group that manages it,...

Love is more than Xs and Os—in the age of online dating apps like Tinder and Grindr, finding someone to connect with depends more...

Could we be one step closer to finally putting this cursed rock we call Earth in our rearview forever and moving on to a new world?...

An umbrella's design is great for keeping you mostly dry on soggy days, but it is also a great space saver. According to New Atlas,...

By most accounts, the Apple Watch is just too complicated for its own good: it's too clunky and small to perform its more complex...

In case you missed it, a couple weeks ago astronauts aboard the International Space Station found a small hole on the side where the...

To most people, Neil deGrasse Tyson is the cool uncle of popular science: he's humorous, wacky, and a little wise. In fact, he's the...

Along with having the most developed brain among all animals on Earth and the distinction of creating both the atomic bomb and the...

As Hurricane Florence closes in on Wilmington, North Carolina (where it's projected to make landfall tomorrow), the ISS managed to...

A lot of cyberpunk books and movies imagine a future where corporations control not just Earth, but the stars, too. It always seemed a...