Blobfish wins ugliest animal vote
The grumpy-looking, gelatinous blobfish has won a public vote to become the official mascot of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society. This gives the fish the unofficial title of world’s ugliest animal....
View ArticleA message from beyond the stars: NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft sends first...
This is the incredible sound recording beamed back to Earth from Voyager 1 as it crossed a new frontier, becoming the first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system. The rising tones NASA observed...
View ArticleAsteroid Will Buzz Earth This Week Inside the Moon’s Orbit
A tiny asteroid discovered just last week is set to zip by Earth on Wednesday (Sept. 18), passing between our planet and the moon. It is small enough and distant enough that it poses no threat to...
View ArticleSun Mysteriously Goes All Quiet Just When Its Activity Should Be Highest
Almost every measure of solar activity flatlined over the weekend. The event, though not unprecedented, is odd considering that our local star has just passed what is supposed to be the peak of its...
View ArticleGigantic Galaxy Cluster Blazes in Amazing New Hubble Photo
A new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows an enormous collection of galaxies and star clusters in stunning detail. Hubble spied 10,000 or so of the estimated 160,000 globular star groupings...
View ArticleTransformer insect has gears in its legs
Species: Issus coleoptratus Habitat: throughout western Europe, often hanging around on ivy plants For a disconcerting experience, consider how mechanical you are. Humans may be conscious beings with...
View Article‘Alien Microbes’ found Floating in the Stratosphere
British researchers have found alien life arriving on earth from space. Our hopes of finding life on Mars were trashed after NASA’s Curiosity rover found no traces of methane on the red planet....
View Article‘Rotating moon’ filmed by NASA (Video)
NASA video footage shows what the moon would look like as it rotates. The images are impossible to witness from Earth, because the moon is ‘tidally locked’ to it, meaning only one of its faces ever...
View ArticleComet ISON’s blazing green tail captured in stunning photo
Comet ISON blazes through the night sky on its dangerous journey toward the sun in this great photo recently sent to SPACE.com. Astrophotographer Adam Block captured this amazing image of the comet...
View ArticleChelyabinsk meteor fragment recovered
A chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteorite, which wounded more than 1,000 people when it exploded over Russia in February, has been found and raised from its resting place 20 metres under in a lake. It took...
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