outer space
Flat Earthers Are Shooting a Guy 2,000 Feet in the Air in a Homemade Rocket
"Mad Mike” Hughes is a former NASCAR crew chief, denier of science, and daredevil. This weekend he will launch himself over a mile in a homemade rocket.
The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots
The NASA scientists, philosophers, and futurists who believe that the aliens we meet most likely won't be a life form at all.
Elon Musk Is Still Insisting Mars Will Be Settled in 2024 and Then Terraformed
The basis of Musk’s project rests upon ethical problems that haven’t been figured out yet.
Asteroid Mining Is Our Best Hope for Colonizing Mars
Asteroids will be the unsung heroes that help us become a multiplanetary species.
You Are Part Extragalactic, Study Says
Supercomputer simulations of galaxy evolution estimate how much of the Milky Way was born beyond its borders.
NASA Is Uploading Decades of Archival Footage to YouTube
Watch a hypersonic plane go 7,000 miles per hour and more in over 500 videos of experimental aircraft pushing the limits.
'Concert Line Creeps,' Today's Comic by Pedro D'Apremont
All the drug dealers you'll meet lurking outside the downtown shows.
This Stimulating Trip to an Alien Planet Will Make Your Hair Stand On End
Space morphs into an endless void of textures in Clement Wirth’s eerie, CGI-free animation.
With An Eye to the Stars, a Realist Painter Maps Out Constellations with a Paintbrush
Damian Loeb’s blown-out canvases radiate with an inner light.