Jeanna Bryner

"Mad" Mike Hughes launched himself from the Mojave Desert on a self-made rocket before landing back to Earth, a little dinged up.

Tiangong-1, China's first space station, is currently falling back to Earth and will soon make an uncontrolled entry through our atmosphere. Here's a look back at the 9-ton space lab.

An elephant in India seems to have a smoking habit. Sort of.

In an online publication, this astronomer reports the detection of a very bright object in the night sky that wasn't there before. Turns out, he's thousands of years late for this discovery.

It looks like a stereotypical hallucination of a whale floating beneath puffy clouds.

Slashing pigs with swords doesn't sound like science. But that's exactly what scientists had volunteers do — hack away at a pig carcass with a Japanese samurai sword called a katana.

One of the world's most brilliant minds, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has died. Here, we honor the man who changed the way we look at the universe.

One of the brightest minds, Stephen Hawking has died at age 76. As we mourn his death and celebrate his life, here's a look back at some of his most intriguing words.

A forensic anthropologist says he's 99 percent sure bones found on this Pacific Island belong to the lost Amelia Earhart.

The wreck had been lost to history.

Apparently, there's a one-in-a-million chance of spotting the yellow mutant bird.

Michio Kaku tells Redditors his predictions about intelligent aliens.

The move could have implications for artificial intelligence development at Tesla.

Who knows what "alien" creatures they'll find around Antarctica.

Police are looking for a person of interest seen in motel surveillance video.

A humongous rocket is about to launch into space today (Feb. 6), if all goes as planned, according to SpaceX.