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
Colony ships wouldn't just be small cities floating through space. They could become their own little, self-contained worlds.
# space
Is VB 10 a planet-sized star, or is VB 10a a star-sized planet? One of our closest stellar neighbors poses a small but interesting challenge to cosmic taxonomy.
# space
One day, we'll make it to Mars. But before we do that, we have to answer a lot of questions and think really hard about why we're going.
# space
Warp drives will work by creating a bubble of twisted space. But the physics of that bubble get very complicated very quickly.
# space
Taking a hypothetical trip to one of the most promising candidates for life outside our solar system.
# space
What America and the world would have heard if Apollo 11 ended in disaster.
# space
The most dangerous thing about living on the Moon isn't the radiation. It's the sharp, electrostatic alien dust...
# astrobiology
The first step to figuring out if we found alien life is to define what we mean by living.
# astrobiology
If we're seriously going to explore alien worlds, we should really consider dropping that "we come in peace" bit...
# astrobiology
We can laugh all we want at the idea of a UFO stealing our stuff. Until they actually start doing it...