NASA has been mapping asteroids that might be a threat to Earth for a few years now. In 2013 NASA released a map of potentially hazardous asteroids. Astronomers think that there are around 1 million potentially dangerous "rocks" out there, but only thousands of them have been identified so far.

Rocks with a size of only around 1km wide can potentially end human civilization. Most of these big ones cruising through Earth's neighborhood have fortunately been identified (well, as far as we know), and most of them ... continue reading


According to a new New York University study, power napping and four-hour sleep schedules are potentially a public health threat.


Would it be possible to turn Sahara desert green again? According to one scientist, yes. Although it wouldn't be a simple, nor small task, on the draw...


The end of days has been predicted for decades now, with one of the most famous date behind was Dec 21, 2012, when Nibiru, or Planet X, was supposed t...


A rare type of runaway star was recently spotted making its way through the Milky Way's neighboring galaxy. Apparently, the discovery in the Small Mag...


A company in Japan, Astro Live Experience (ALE), is developing technology to create the world's first artificial meteor shower. And the first artifici...


According to a new research, Great Pacific garbage patch is up to 16 times bigger than previously thought. The waste patch is around twice the size of...


Stephen Hawking, world renowned British physicist, and possibly the smartest man on earth, died at the age of 76 early hours of Wednesday morning.


According to MIT scientists, nuclear fusion will be reality within 15 years. It's clean, it's a combustion-free source of energy with zero-carbon. And...


During a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science a study was presented that shows how moderate drinking can lead to longer ...


Donald Trump, a man from the movie Idiocracy (or might as well be), the man who's still stuck with climate change being a hoax spread by China idea, n...


Atomic scientists have just moved the metaphorical Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to midnight. It's now 2 minutes to midnight. The last time it was ...


There are many people out there, both people who believe in climate change and people who might not, who don't understand at least one important aspec...


If the news about the upcoming doomsdays would have been true, the world would have ended at least a dozen of times already. But last I checked, we're...


Or to be precise, yesterday he was asking for $200 000 on his Gofundme page. Today he seems to have realized that space travel, paraphrasing our big l...


NASA space apps Hackathon run by Max Polyakov; Noosphere Ventures has made space discoveries more easily accessible.


According to a new research, if you're sitting for long periods of time, exercise is not enough to avoid health risks. Instead, regular movement is ne...


Researchers from the University of the West of England conducted a study tracking the weight of more than 1500 primary school students aged 4-11 to s...


According to a recent study, listening to uplifting music while working can actually lead to increased creativity. According to the results, happy, po...


Enormous Asteroid named Florence will be flying past Earth on September 1. It's the largest object ever to pass Earth since NASA started tracking the ...


Scientists have just discovered 91 new volcanoes, volcanoes that they previously didn't know existed. The new volcanoes were identified in West Antarc...


Trump has been in the opposition of climate change since the beginning of time...well, pretty much. Although, let's be honest, he's not really been in...


The iceberg, roughly 20 times bigger than the tiny island of Malta (population roughly 500 000) has just broken off of Antarctica. It happened within ...


Four Beijing University student have just started a 200-day experiment of living inside a self-sustainable space station.


Physicist Stephen Hawking said in an interview with BBC on Sunday that we are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible.


We live in a world of finite resources. Some of those finite resources are coal, oil, and gas that so many people rely on for energy. Alternative ener...


How much do you know about Earth? If the answer is "not much," don't worry. Thanks to the hard work by scientists and curious hobbyists, humans today ...


A study by the Anthropological Survey of India (ASI) on the genetic characteristics of the inhabitants of Northeast – known to be malaria prone may le...


The term has been subtly creeping into the lexicon: greenwashing.


Scientists seem to do some pretty strange things at times. It is hard to imagine how many of their endevours could possibly ever bring any benefits to...


Hi, everyone. Once again, we’re going to take a look at a television series rather than a film. Which television series? Glad you asked…


You’re a murderer. I will not help you kill this baby. I will not have its blood on my hands," the pharmacist is reported to have said. Michelle Long,...


Life just keeps getting more technical - computers, cell phones, space ships - but do we know what's going on or are these tools as well understood as...

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