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Omnidirectional VR treadmills are so 2015. Apart from being as big as a piece of home gym equipment and suspiciously similar in design...

If you have to go out, go out with a bang! In a new study published in the journal Nature, astronomers share the discovery of a...

Scientists at the University of California, Davis partnered with the Shanghai-based company United Imaging Healthcare (UIH) to develop...

Bill Nye is many things – beloved educational figure, science celebrity, and the original Science Guy – but now he has a new...

The ISS recently released an adorable little cubesat to help harpoon space junk orbiting Earth, but it's small potatoes compared to...

Some people like to look at clouds and point out which ones look like a face. Sometimes NASA does the same thing – on a much bigger...

We're pretty sure this is how the prequel to The Thing started... And that did not end well for the humans (or dogs) involved. IFL...

Sunspots and solar radiation are a part of life, whether we're aware of them or not. Like the changing of the seasons, the Sun goes...

Despite the frightening implications, most people aren't surprised anymore when it's announced that China has a new virtual news...

Aside from the US and China, Russia has established itself as one of the biggest players in the new space race, despite some recent...

By 1972, the Vietnam War was close to its end, though it would still take three more years for Saigon to fall. In the wake of the...

Over the past year or so, different scientific studies have argued that so-called 'rogue planets' (ie, planets without a star to...

A 'dark matter hurricane' sounds like something out of a comic book, but it's nevertheless real (as far as we know--dark matter is a...

Whether it's recording music videos aboard the ISS or playing David Bowie songs in a NASA control room to try and wake up the...

After decades of NASA missions with names like "Apollo" and "Gemini," it's refreshing to see a space mission (or at least a rocket...

People with celiac disease can't approach cake with the same sort of devil-may-care attitude that a lactose intolerant person might...

If Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the Michael Jordan of astrophysics, Stephen Hawking was the Muhammad Ali. Thousands lined the streets for...

Sometimes you don't need to launch a new satellite or conduct a new experiment to make a new discovery--in the case of Ganymede and...

Few things are more powerful, cataclysmic, or vast than a merger between supermassive black holes, but galactic mergers are one of...

If there are galactic archaeologists, what about stellar homicide detectives? Scientists recently spotted a star called CPD 64°2731...