Sort of. Okay, not really. Megabots Inc. is running a Kickstarter to fund upgrades to their giant combat robot MK-II because they challenged Japanese robotics firm Suidobashi Heavy Industry to a death battle, which they accepted. Because, seriously -- when someone says, 'My [...]
Read moreThe below video was created from photographs taken by expeditions 28 and 29 while aboard the International Space Station from August to October. The creator of the video claims that he altered the photos as little as possible and to [...]
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NASA's Kepler Mission has confirmed the first planet in the "habitable zone" of a Sun-like star. Kepler-22b is just one of 54 planets reported by the Kepler Mission as of last February. A habitable zone planet is a planet that [...]
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The Hubble telescope got the best look at the Milky Way's galactic center to date, which spans 35,000 light years and contains a group of newly discovered massive stars, super-hot, ionized hydrogen gases (that red stuff) and a supermassive black [...]
Read moreEvery day that passes is another day I become less and less fearful of losing my hand in a lightsaber duel. It's videos like the one below that are the reason we opted to do these little sci-fact posts here [...]
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And we thought we had bad storms on planet Earth! This is an image captured by the Cassini spacecraft of a storm that erupted on Saturn's northern hemisphere earlier this year. Saturn's winds wrapped the tempest around the planet spreading [...]
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This is the first image ever captured of Galactus a black hole, consuming a star. What you are seeing is the cosmic jet from a super massive black hole eating a sun like it's a pan of General Tso's chicken [...]
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