Strange & Offbeat
Golden Dome: Everything to know about Trump's $25 billion missile defense plan
President Donald Trump announced a plan to build a missile defense system, called the Golden Dome, o ...View More
'Trash' found deep inside a Mexican cave turns out to be 500-year-old artifacts from a little-known culture
While investigating a cave high in the mountains of Mexico, a spelunker thought she had found a pile ...View More
Powerful Mother's Day geomagnetic storm created radio-disrupting bubbles in Earth's upper atmosphere
Researchers from Kyushu University in Japan have provided some new insights about the powerful geoma ...View More
'The Martian' predicts human colonies on Mars by 2035. How close are we?
Andy Weir's bestselling story "The Martian" predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Ma ...View More
How much of your disease risk is genetic? It's complicated.
Sitting in my doctor's examination room, I was surprised when she told me, "Genetics don't really ma ...View More
Black holes: Facts about the darkest objects in the universe
Black holes are places where gravity is so powerful that nothing — not even light — can escape. Rath ...View More
Does light lose energy as it crosses the universe? The answer involves time dilation.
My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyard, was pointed at a ...View More
US Representatives worry Trump's NASA budget plan will make it harder to track dangerous asteroids
On Thursday (May 15), the U.S. House Committee on Space, Science and Technology convened with scient ...View More
Scientists may have discovered the most powerful particle collider in the universe
Supernovas can become some of the most powerful particle colliders in the universe — but only if the ...View More
Space photo of the week: Violent galaxies seen 'jousting' near the dawn of time
If you get up before sunrise any day this month, you'll see bright Venus rising in the east. Just be ...View More
