Bizarre Science

 Back in the year 2000, a 1,003 kilogram (2,211 lbs) meteorite was discovered near Fukang, a city located in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, China. Named the ‘Fukang meteorite‘, it was identified as a pallasite, a…

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration less than five percent of the world’s oceans have been explored, meaning that 95% of what lies deep underwater on Earth has yet to be seen by human eyes.…

In celebration of 1,000 days in orbit, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter team released video, one a fiery drama showing the moon’s tough evolution and another touring its most interesting sites. The historical montage takes you…

Rising greenhouse emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report. It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might…

From an original CD: JUPITER NASA-VOYAGER SPACE SOUNDS (1990) BRAIN/MIND Research Fascinating recording of Jupiter sounds (electromagnetic “voices”) by NASA-Voyager. The complex interactions of charged electromagnetic particles from the solar wind , planetary magnetosphere etc.…

From a distance, our galaxy would look like a flat spiral, some 100,000 light years across, with pockets of gas, clouds of dust, and about 400 billion stars rotating around the galaxys center. Thick dust…

Andrew D. Basiago, author of “The Discovery of Life on Mars“, discussed his experiences within a secret DARPA program– “Project Pegasus,” and what he claimed to be the true history of U.S. time travel research…

ERKELEY — Imagine tapping into the mind of a coma patient, or watching one’s own dream on YouTube. With a cutting-edge blend of brain imaging and computer simulation, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are…

Tauranga astronomer Stuart Murray says NASA’s move to declare ‘no fly zones’ on the moon is “a bit precious”. NASA,  the organisation which pulled the pin on its ageing shuttle fleet without offering a replacement,…

The aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out,…

Sometimes it seems as if the expansion of the social networking phenomenon knows no bounds. And now scientists say even aliens might not be immune to Twitter. They could have been using cosmic ‘tweets’ to…

For the past seven years, this German set-up has been looking for gravitational waves – ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes. GEO600 has not detected…