Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# space
The coldest place in our solar system isn't somewhere in the outer reaches of the Oort Cloud. It's a network of craters on the Moon.
# space
If we're expecting tourists to visit the Moon, should we figure out how to protect Apollo landing sites from souvenir hunters and historical artifact collectors?
# space
Current plans for our return to the Moon seem a little too vague to be successful.
# space
NASA is trying to replay history at the cost of keeping its launch systems and exploration programs stagnant.
# space
Celebrating Apollo 11's lunar landing isn't just celebrating an American triumph. It's celebrating how far humanity can go and how much it can do.
# space
Astrologers are irate because, apparently, we didn't ask the Moon for its consent to be probed.
# science
Gravity can be tricky when you don't seem to understand how it works...
# space
The most dangerous thing about living on the Moon isn't the radiation. It's the sharp, electrostatic alien dust...
# politics
Technically, no one owns or can lay claim to the Moon. But if we start routinely staying on its surface, the law may need to change.
# oddities
A Russian documentary alleges that Americans stopped going to the Moon because they uncovered something sinister just under its surface.