By Brandon Russell |
The Golden Spike Company, a mysterious private firm supposedly backed by playboy billionaires, is plotting a return to the Moon by 2020. A manned return, according to Internet rumors, though nothing has been confirmed. An announcement is allegedly set for this Thursday, Dec. 6. Hardly…
By Brandon Russell |
Space is unfathomably, insanely, horrifically massive. It doesn’t end, it just goes. Forever. How do we know? NASA’s Voyager 1 probe, which lifted off from Earth back in 1977, is currently 11 billion miles away from where you and I sit, and counting. 11 billion…
By Brandon Russell |
NASA shared its sort-of-kind-of earthshaking news at a press conference on Monday, revealing that after thorough soil analysis, evidence of organic compounds have been found on Mars. The Red Planet looks like a barren, lonely dessert, but its landscape actually hides a much more complex…
By Brandon Russell |
The U.S. Air Force is testing a top secret spaceplane, dubbed X-37B, and nobody knows what it’s for. There’s some speculative reports hypothesizing as to why it exists, but nothing is publicly known other than it shares a lineage to any old U.S. space shuttle.…
By Brandon Russell |
Scientists claim that five-year-long research has culminated in a positive link between Bigfoot and modern humans. As in, Bigfoot, the mythical and allusive ape-like creature, could be related to your Uncle Bill. That would explain Uncle Bill’s year-round fur coat, and why he prefers mountain-living…
By Brandon Russell |
Elon Musk wants to bring you and 79,999 of your closest friends to colonize a nice little spread on Mars. The SpaceX founder and CEO revealed his ambitious plans to the Royal Aeronautical Society earlier this month, revealing each trip would cost $500,000 and would…
By Brandon Russell |
That big earth shattering announcement researchers teased last week isn’t going to be anything special, according to NASA. Maybe the Red Planet is a lot less interesting than we initially thought. Maybe there aren’t any buried human (or alien) remains waiting to be found. Or…
By Roy Choi |
NASA keeps on delivering some awesome footage from the red planet. Now NASA brings us a massive dust do storm spotted by its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The effects of the dust storm has showed a drop in atmospheric clarity, drop in air pressure and…
By Brandon Russell |
Researchers have allegedly discovered something on Mars that’s utterly “earthshaking.” As in, this will change science and our perception of the Red Planet forever. What could it be? The Mars Science Lab isn’t sharing the big news just yet, because it wants to double and…
By Brandon Russell |
After four years of extensive planning, trial jumps, and agonizing set backs, Felix Baumgartner bravely jumped from 128,000 feet above the Earth’s surface. In the process, not only did he set multiple records — he broke the previous freefall record set by Joe Kittinger of…
By Brandon Russell |
Water may have one day existed on Mars, but the evidence isn’t enough to definitively tell us whether or not there was life on the Red Planet. It’s not like stumbling across a small stream in the desert and finding a nearby habitat. The landscape…
By Brandon Russell |
Radiation levels on Mars are at a level that’s relatively safe for humans, according to preliminary data collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover. As much as Mars’ geography looks like any old desert here on Earth, I’m still not so sure I’d be comfortable residing on…
By Brandon Russell |
There’s going to be another meteor shower tonight/early morning, with peak hours between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. ET. Phones, tablets, company loyalty; we sometimes forget that right above our heads some truly amazing things are taking place. Sometimes natural, other times insane daredevil madness.…
By Brandon Russell |
Researchers have created an alleged copolymer polyurethane “super material” that could potentially be the future of bulletproof technology, particularly in vehicles. Results have so far been positive, with lab tests showing the material capable of stopping 9-millimeter bullets in their path without any macroscopic damage…
By Brandon Russell |
Researchers have allegedly discovered what is being considered a super-Earth, and it’s only 44 light years away. Not far at all. According to Reuters, astronomers are saying the big orb, dubbed HD 40307g, possesses key features that make it a prime candidate for life, including…
By Brandon Russell |
A new report out of the University of Southampton suggests researchers may have found the key to preventing and even curing blindness. According to Gizmag, scientists have found a way to easily collect corneal cells from the corneal limbus — a thick region located at…
By Brandon Russell |
Paleontologists discovered what is believed to be a previously unknown dinosaur skull estimated at some 95 million-years-old. Its unique dome, according to researchers, is presumed to belong to a Carcharondontosaurid — a descendant of Allosaurus — but the difference being an extra bone fragment found…
By Brandon Russell |
Perhaps more than any other urban myth, the does-he-or-doesn’t-he existence of Bigfoot is the most debated and publicized unsolved mystery. Somewhere in our minds, we’d like to think he does. But for all the supposed proof, we’ve simply never turned up cold hard evidence that…
By Brandon Russell |
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover took time out of its busy schedule to take a rather humorous self portrait — a collection of 55 images seamlessly stitched together. It almost looks like vacation photo. Mars isn’t in that bad of shape. I mean, it looks like…
By Brandon Russell |
Even the most unlikely of plans have the potential for greatness. Sung Wook Paek, an MIT graduate, came up with one such proposal, and it could be what saves humanity. It involves paintballs and giant asteroids. It’s crazy, but it just might work. According to…
By Brandon Russell |
There’s a vicious hurricane, Sandy, hurtling straight toward USA’s East coast. The current forecast is grim — it could be the worst storm in more than 100 years — and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is even referring to the event as Frankenstorm:…
By Adriana Lee |
Ever wanted to build your own satellite? Good news, for the first time ever, it’s possible to do just that using commercially available components. It’s not cheap, nor is it easy, but it is possible using a CubeSat design. (To find out how, click here…
By Brandon Russell |
When NASA’s Curiosity Rover took a scoop of Martian soil early last week, it uncovered an unexpected bright object that, scientists later found, isn’t a dislodged piece of the craft. Amazingly, NASA has confirmed that the shiny material is actually alien in origin, with many…
By Brandon Russell |
The Orionid meteor shower will put on a spectacular show of celestial rock and fire this weekend, and you can watch the whole thing online. The meteor shower will be at its peak, Space.com said, during the early morning hours on Sunday, particularly just before…
