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
# space
While studying mysterious fast radio bursts, astronomers figured out why the universe weighs as much as it does and where that mass went.
# space
According to pictures from New Horizon, in the darkest, deepest reaches of our solar system, you could stand on the summit of a mountain covered by exotic ices and look up at hazy blue skies.
# space
Could the far future see a market for selling entire planets not too dissimilar from today's real estate market?
# space
Asteroid mining may require changes to The Outer Space Treaty and the consequences of amending it badly could be very serious...
# space
Enceladus is starting to look like a better and better place to look for aliens with Cassini's every pass.
# space
Someone should tell Elon Musk that a nuclear bombardment of Mars into habitability won't be much of a shortcut.
# space
Early galaxies seem to grow a lot faster than they should. We finally know how.
# space
When confronted with aliens that could challenge a faith that hasn't changed for over a thousand years, theologians stand ready and willing... to rationalize away the facts and nuances of their own religion.
# space
Newsweek covers a conspiracy theory that seemed created solely for the sake of creating a conspiracy.
# space
New Horizons' flyby of Pluto let us see a brand new world that doesn't fit in our conventional categories, and reminded us that at our heart, we're explorers, not drones.