What should have been an "oh, that's cool" space flight devolved into the internet's favorite hobby: telling...
Mars
If everything goes well with NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter, we've just gotten a huge force multiplier...
What you're seeing is a stunning feat of engineering and human endeavor. Let's hope the Perseverance video...
I will never not be amazed that human beings can do things like Perseverance. The vision, the...
So we're still where we were two weeks ago: Betelgeuse might explode tomorrow. It might explode...
A new treatment for Ebola, if administered early, can cut the fatality rate to 6%, a stunning...
And if that isn’t the coolest damn thing you read all day…
Scientists need our own version of Rule 34: if it exists, someone is studying it.
Black holes were first theorized in the 18th century. But because they are...you know...black...we couldn't image them...
The only thing Malthusian predictions have had in common is being completely wrong
One thing that annoys me is people conflating the far side of the moon with the "dark...
So ... ten stellar collisions weren't enough for you, huh? How about ten, ten colliding black holes!...
Burt Likko fills in for Will Truman for this week's aggregation of dozens of links to themed...