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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...

We're entering a new era of alternative energy, one where scientists find new sources of power in unlikely places – like liquid...

If you think the ocean is a scary place now, imagine what it was like 100 million years ago when actual monsters lurked deep...

This week in new old dino news: paleontologists recently discovered the remains of a family of prehistoric giants that belong to the...

If you thought burning off your fingerprints, hiding your face, and shaving your head was enough to evade identification by the...

NASA may have figured out the perfect energy source for colonies on other planets, but here on Earth, we're still struggling to find...

NASA has already announced plans to establish a permanent base on the Moon (even if the Mars Society isn't too happy with them), but...