Space

Let’s face it: humans can get on each other’s nerves! From annoying each other to starting wars, to simply being rude, it’s no wonder that some people are tired of people. One Reddit thread asked humans how they would betray their fellow species. The idea is that they’d give aliens a tip that would bring...

If you think the sun is bright from the naked eye, just imagine what it looks like with one of the world’s most powerful telescopes. For most of us Earth people, we can only see the outermost part of the sun during a total solar eclipse. But thanks to our friends at NASA, we can...

Albert Einstein may be long gone, but the most famous scientist in history would be more than pleased at what astronomers have managed to observe recently. In a study published in April, those star-gazing scientists discussed a scientific first: a star orbiting a black hole in our own galaxy. So what makes it so special that...

Mars is an enchanting planet we’re only just beginning to understand thanks in part to NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The MRO is equipped with a High Resolution Imagine Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera that has already taken some amazing pictures. But fantasy and sci-fi fans have noticed that the MRO has captured images that really...

It seemed that over the past few decades that most news about the environment and the ozone layer was usually BAD news. Well, here is a positive development about our planet that I think you’ll want to read about. A recent study shows that the Earth’s ozone layer is continuing to heal and some of...

There’s just something about pictures from space that make us stop in wonder at all that’s out there – more than we’ll ever realize, in all likelihood. I think that feeling of feeling small and in awe and definitely as if there’s something bigger than ourselves is one of the reasons we love images like...

If you’ve ever wanted to be an astronaut but assumed NASA had some fancy recruitment tactics, well…prepare to have your mind blown. Because anyone with a master’s degree in a STEM field who doesn’t mind tight spaces could technically land the job. NASA recently posted an ad for astronauts on USAJobs, and as long as...

Comets are strange little things. They are really large space snowballs, with an icy center surrounded by frozen gasses, rocks and dust, orbiting the sun. When they are completely frozen, comets are about the size of a town. But when one gets close to the sun,  it heats and starts spewing the gasses and dust until...