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Kepler measures first alien day, and it’s incredibly fast
A new report lays out the incredibly quick rotation of Beta Pictoris b, an enormous planet that puts the Earth's day-night cycle to shame.
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Treating space-time like a fluid may unify physics
Is space-time a fluid? A recent study examines this question in detail, arguing that if we are all swimming in space-time, it must be a superfluid.
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Geek Answers: Why do all planets spin and orbit in the same direction?
The solar system came together from bits of galactic gas and dust, but now operates in an orderly manner. How?
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Astronomers find an Earth-sized diamond orbiting a pulsar
Astronomers looking at a nearby pulsar have found that it has a super-dim white dwarf sister star -- one that's cooled into an enormous diamond.
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Geek Answers: How do animals deal with zero gravity?
We've sent a lot of animals to space, and every species seems to react to zero gravity in its own unique way.
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3D printed tourbillon blows up watch part to 100x normal size
An artist named Nicholas Manousos has created an exquisite large-scale recreation of a tourbillon, one of the strangest and most beautiful components of fancy mechanical watches.
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Russia loses control of five-gecko sex party in space
In space, no one can hear you scream… presumably due to pleasure as well as pain, and that’s a good thing. There’s a five-gecko orgy going on in outer space right now, all […]
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7 weird facts about NASA
NASA is one of the deepest scientific and bureaucratic rabbit-holes in existence. Here's a few odd facts about the space agency.
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Scientists discover some asteroids defy gravity, are mostly empty space
You probably imagine asteroids as huge monolithic chunks of rock, like mountains floating through space. While that’s probably what many of them are, researchers from the University of Tennessee have...
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This animation perfectly explains gravitational lensing
Throughout history there have been scientific hypotheses that panned out, and many more that did not. When big thinkers use cutting edge science to make a prediction that turns out to be right, […]
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Asteroid will pass so close to Earth in 2029 it will trigger asteroid avalanche
The more pessimistic among our readership might already be digging bunkers in their backyards in anticipation of April 13th, 2029. On that day (a Friday nonetheless), an asteroid called 99942 Apophis...
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Watch a bowling ball and feather fall at same speed in world’s largest vacuum
The BBC's Human Universe heads to the world's largest vacuum chamber to test one of the most oft-repeated examples in all of physics.
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Astronauts levitate balls of liquid metal aboard ISS
ISS astronauts are running an electromagnetic levitator and it could light the way to next-gen materials, or end centuries-old mysteries in metallurgy.
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Geek Answers: What is the hottest possible temperature?
Absolute zero is the lowest possible temperature, but is it possible to reach a temperature so high that things just can't get any hotter?
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Geek Answers: Why are there 365.25 days in the year?
Why are there 365 days in a year -- and a better question, why is there a fraction of a day left over?
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NASA to delay Messenger probe’s death with one last thruster burn
NASA's Mercury probe has passed its scheduled end, but it will get one last chance to update our understanding of the universe.
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Scientists watch as pulsar vanishes thanks to warped space-time
As a general rule, stars don’t just vanish while astronomers are studying them, but that’s what seems to have happened to the pulsar in a distant binary solar system called J1906. Scientists have […]
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This week’s near-Earth asteroid had its own moon
An asteroid called 2004 BL86 just passed right by Earth, and astronomers spied an exciting surprise: this asteroid has a moon to call its very own.
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The 10 most common misconceptions about space
Science fiction and word of mouth have spread some seriously annoying misconceptions about space. Let's clear a few of them up.
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NASA discovers the Earth’s pull is massaging the moon
Tide rolls in, tide rolls out — we can explain that. It’s the gravitational push and pull of the moon influencing the flux of the Earth’s oceans, but what NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter […]
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