14 People Share The Scariest Messages That Aliens Could Possibly Send Us
If human beings ever made contact with aliens, it’d be arguably the most major event in our entire species’ history so far. But depending on how that first meeting goes, it could either be a revelation or a terror. On AskReddit, a user asked what the “scariest” message would be to hear from aliens from outer space....
NASA Scientists Releases First Findings by Solar Probe
Launched in 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has reached the fastest speeds ever achieved by a man-made vehicle. And that’s just the beginning of the all the amazing things it’s been doing as it zooms toward our sun. Details of the probe’s solar close-ups were recently published in the journal Nature. The observations were made as it...
Here’s How People Knew the Earth Rotated Before We Went into Space
It’s unsurprising, really, that people used to think the earth was flat. To the untrained (regular) eye, it feels like we live on a flat, motionless surface that stays safe and stationary underneath a spinning sun and stars. If someone came along and told you (the hypothetically scientifically illiterate) that you lived on a giant...
Stars Are Disappearing, and Scientists Aren’t Totally Ruling out Aliens as a Cause
It seems as if there have been a few stories lately when scientists and other suit-and-tie types have been unwilling to say aliens aren’t behind one thing or another – which I guess is the safest course, because no one likes to be proven wrong. I mean, if a situation actually arose in which aliens...
People Shared Their Incredible Photos From The Final Solar Eclipse of the Decade
On December 26, photographers and residents of places form Saudi Arabia to Guam scrambled to take pictures of the final solar eclipse to grace the Earth this decade. Unlike in some eclipses, you’ll notice that the moon didn’t totally black out the sun. Instead, it covered the majority of the sun, leaving a visible “ring.”...
How to Tell the Difference Between Stars and Planets Just by Looking
Telling planets and stars apart seems like it would be difficult – until, that is, you remember that classic lullaby that put us all to sleep. Remember “Twinkle, twinkle little star”? Yep. Stars twinkle, and planets don’t. With the exception of our solar system’s sun, stars are all so far away that astronomers talk about...
Curiosity Rover Finds Oxygen Behavior on Mars That Is Baffling Scientists
The Curiosity rover landed in Mars’ Gale Crater in 2012, and since then, has been studying all things Martian, so we can know more about the planet’s past. Well, what we now know, more than anything, is how much we don’t understand about what’s happening out there. Case in point: the rover’s tunable laser spectrometer...