Our Moon Could Escape Earth’s Orbit and Become a “Ploonet”
Well, looks like everything I learned in school about solar system formation is no longer true
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NASA Just Released an Incredible Map of All Known Exoplanets
This map is SO cool, even though we linked to it in news, it bears repeating!
Why can’t we nail down how fast the universe is expanding? – Futurity
Silly question. No one can stand outside the universe and clock it as it goes by
NASA’s TESS Mission Has Spotted Its Smallest Exoplanet Ever
The planetary detection tech is getting better and better all the time.
Images of Saturn’s Rings Continue to Reveal Clues to Their Origins
They’re grainy, not smooth, there’s ravioli-shaped moonlets in there…butternut squash?
News | A New Plan for Keeping NASA’s Oldest Explorers Going
Voyagers 1 & 2 should be renamed Timex 1 and Timex 2 – they just keep on ticking.
The moon landing footage is real: A film expert explains why – Big Think
It happened. I watched it. Most of the world watched it.
Affordable Flying Cars May Be a Reality in a Decade
I think the real money to be made is in modifying garages and paving landing pads….
This Might Be the Strangest Black Hole Yet
Why is it so strange? Sorry, but you’ll have to read this article to find out.
Laser Project Aims to Melt Moon Dust Into a Lunar Base
Lasers are almost always the answer….
8 Early Plans for Visiting Outer Space | Mental Floss
The first plan required psychic intervention…
Apollo 11 in Real Time
Listen in on the Apollo 11 mission as if it were taking place today!
GoPro from space: watch a stunning NASA spacewalk – The Verge
About the only thing this spectacular video needs is a Blue Danube Waltz soundtrack
Review of the HD Re-Release of FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON
HBO drops the ball on the BluRay release of From Earth to the Moon, the award-winning documentary series. This review includes a word from one of the original effects artists.
Relive the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Mission in Real Time! | Space
Running in real time – as if the mission were taking place today – right now – you can listen to the Apollo 11 Lunar mission in real time
Researchers Created Spiders That Spin Super-Silk | Mental Floss
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, spins a web of super-silk, look out, here come the genegineers!
New state of matter detected in a two-dimensional material
Have scientists discovered the mysterious state of matter hiding in magnetic materials?
Where are all the aliens? Video about the Fermi Paradox / Boing Boing
“If we let life on this planet die, perhaps there will be no life anywhere in the universe. Life would be gone, maybe forever.”
Former NASA ISS manager planning commercial space station venture – SpaceNews.com
Former NASA guy wants to put up a private space station. Think he has an inside track?
Amy Poehler Launches a Hilarious New Web Series About Science | Mental Floss
A comedy science show promoting women in science
Voices in AI – Episode 76: A Conversation with Rudy Rucker – Gigaom
The AI’s are coming for Rudy first…
Behind the scenes at GE’s future-forward factory
Oooo 3D scanners, laser jets and autonomous robots! What could possibly go wrong?
Meet Astra-Gnome, The Forgotten Time And Space Car
With your own Time and Space car, you don’t really have to “go” anywhere, do you?
Rare image of US Air Force’s secretive space plane in orbit / Boing Boing
No, it does not have death rays mounted on it…maybe
This Rock Found On The Moon Originated On Earth – Neatorama
Those dang meteorites make such a mess!
These Nootropics Are at the Cutting Edge of Boosting Human Brainpower
Well, that’s nice, but where are the double-blind study results? The survey they tout to make things look “scientific” is hardly more than a marketing tool
Lightyear One – the solar powered electric car | The Red Ferret Journal
OK. But where’s my solar-powered FLYING car?
Huge Freshwater Aquifer Was Discovered beneath the Atlantic Ocean
water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink – except 1,000 meters under the sea
This Star Dims in An Unpredictable Manner and Scientists Can’t Explain Why – Neatorama
We used the same NASA/Hubble image for our magazine cover…but as much as we’d like to think Amazing Stories is responsible, the science probably says otherwise
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