Science News

Jet fuel can't melt steel beams. Stanley Kubrick filmed the fake Moon landings. Elvis is alive and well. JFK was shot from the grassy...

Despite the fact that the famous 1934 photo was revealed to be a toy submarine and that the subsequent "giant footprints" on the...

It's strange to think that our first close-up images of Pluto only came in 2015, a whopping 85 years after it was discovered. In fact,...

NASA may be preparing a more advanced version of their Curiosity rover to launch in 2020, but ideally, they still want to keep the...

When a satellite is supposed to last for 15 years, it's more than a little frustration when it starts breaking down less than three...

Earlier this year, Dr. Ian Pearson claimed that humans would obtain immortality by 2050, a statement that's been met with equal...

NASA has been dealing with fears over 'space madness' for decades, but in all those years, there have been a grand total of zero...

As fascinating as they are ethically dubious, artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology have been creeping into almost...

For most people with smartphones or other digital devices, keeping time has become a given. Time zones and daylights savings don't...

It would be one thing if a single invasive species began making a home somewhere it wasn't supposed to. But when there's several...

It's always fascinating to watch an AI program attempt creative tasks — partly because of the philosophical questions that come...

If imagining Boston Dynamics' Atlas relentlessly chasing you down through the woods like a low-budget Terminator doesn't scare you,...

If you thought moons always look ours--white, cratered, and sphere-shaped--Saturn's inner moons prove otherwise: of its roughly 150...

Over 400 years before the anonymous, knife-handed Longobard warrior found in Northern Italy walked the Earth, two Germanic tribes met...

As a famous wordsmith once said: "Men lie, women lie, numbers don't." The argument that humans have contributed greatly to the current...

Quasars are among the brightest and farthest objects we've found throughout the known universe, but we haven't found very many. So...

With everything SpaceX has done recently (several dozen successful rocket launches and a Tesla floating through space to show for it)...

For years, technology has had an ongoing struggle with the Uncanny Valley, which has been made painfully obvious by robots like...

Last year, the weird, needle-shaped interstellar asteroid Oumuamua zoomed through our solar system, marking the first time we've had a...

If you're planning on hitching a ride on a Falcon 9 and starting a new life on a Martian colony growing potatoes, we have some bad...