Ever heard of a YouTube Poop? These experimental pop culture montages are ground zero for internet meme culture. Turning 15 years old this year, do they get the respect that they deserve?
The hunt for gravitational waves is back on. After a series of upgrades, the National Science Foundation’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) will resume its search for ripples in space and time on Monday, April 1.
Hubble has captured images of a self-destructing asteroid called 6478 Gault. The asteroid has two comet-like tails of debris, suggesting that Gault is breaking apart due to a phenomenon known as the YORP effect.
The GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has observed its first exoplanet, HR8799e, using a technique called optical interferometry.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in 2003 and was supposed to last two and a half years - but 16 years later it is still going. Now astronomers have created an infrared image of a nebula that acts as a nursery for baby stars.
A new study using data from the Curiosity rover has revealed clues that the planet may have been habitable thousands of years ago. Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars instrument provided data on the formation of nitrites and nitrates.
Take a supermassive black hole's view of the Milky Way with a stunning, immersive video that shows galaxy as if you were sitting right in its center, created from supercomputer simulations and data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
An A.I. algorithm capable of signaling early signs of neurodevelopment disorders in infants has been created by researchers in Finland and Italy. The research could help in early detection of disorders such as cerebral palsy.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed details about the heat shield plans for the Starship spacecraft project. The hexagonal heat shielding tiles should protect the Starship from the extreme temperatures of re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
Samsung doesn't just make TVs and smartphones, you know! One of the South Korean company's latest products is a Samsung-branded flower vase which doubles as a throwable fire extinguisher.
Moon Diver would hitch a ride on a rocket in the mid-2020s and touch down a few hundred feet from one of the moon’s deep pits on the Sea of Tranquility basin. A smaller rover, Axel, would then rappel hundreds of feet into the large pits…
Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a virtual reality system that gives it wearers a sense of what it’s like to see the world through the highly specialized eyes of an endangered tarsier.
Participants of the Manhattan Project went on to win an impressive amount of Nobel Prizes, but the women scientists who worked along with them are often overlooked. They too had Ph.D.s in physics and chemistry but had few opportunities than…
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is heading toward the final stages of preparation after the space agency said it had completed the maiden test flight of its autonomous Mars Helicopter, which is set to take flight over the Red Planet.
Handle may not be the most well known of Boston Dynamics' robots, but it could well be the most practical. Check it out as it proves itself to be the most enthusiastic warehouse worker ever.
AbleChair is a new smartphone-controlled wheelchair that’s able to transform into a range of different positions and configurations -- it's like the accessibility version of Optimus Prime.
Move over, Amazon! The U.S. Marines are testing a drone delivery program of their own — only this one involves disposable drones, designed for dropping off supplies wherever they're required.
Think of it like a carbon tax, which many countries impose on the oil industry to help clean up pollution. The United States should impose a similar mechanism on targeted advertising to counteract how the platforms amplify content that’s…
