A small group of scientists stumbled upon the startling connecting between the herpes virus and Alzheimer's disease. Here's what you...

Magma is swelling up beneath New England – how did scientists miss this until now?

The Fermi Paradox may finally have an answer.   Between claims that humans aren't the first civilization to call the Milky Way home...

If you're reading this you've probably seen a lunar eclipse before, but as amateur and professional astronomers know, it's not a "seen...

An early precursor to modern photographs is an often forgotten thing called the "daguerrotype", which could capture light on...

Much like other glaciers around Earth's two poles, the Inglefield Gulf in northwest Greenland is melting and gradually contributing...

Next week, SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket containing important cargo to resupply the International Space Station, which they've...

The image of a toy marble with a colorful streak running through the center of it is a common one. And it's easy to see that streak as...

There's a lot of parallels between ocean voyages and space voyages, mostly revolving around their shared trait of "trained...

This small cube which resembles a Borg cube may not seem like much (unless you've seen enough Star Trek: The Next Generation to be...

Mars is called the Red Planet because it's predominantly red, of course. But that hasn't stopped NASA from taking some blue...

When you think of "futuristic instruments" you probably think of synthesizers just like most other people (even if they've been...

With all our technological cunning, with everything at our disposal, at this point in human evolution, just how wrong could a human...

It seems that Antarctica is a much stranger place than anyone--especially the scientists who study it--ever expected.   Apart from...

When Einstein's theories overturned some of the fundamental ideas of Newtonian physics (and how scientists viewed the universe), it...

The hunt for exoplanets is not just about charting a map of the universe for astronomers to hang on their walls. At some point in the...

As drones continue to grow in popularity, the conventional quadcopter design is easily the most common type of drone you'll come...

A couple weeks ago, NASA grew concerned that their aging Mars rover Opportunity could be in danger, as it lay right in the path of...

When archaeologists found the site of a barbarian massacre in Denmark last month, we were ready to give that the trophy for Most Gory...

Humans may be destined to wipe out all other life in the cosmos, but we're sure stumbling at the first hurdles when it comes to...