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6 Strange Sites Spotted on Google Earth in 2017Google Earth is an amazing trove of visuals from all over the planet, and new strange things turn up in it all the time. Here are the best from 2017.
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Stephen Hawking's Final Paper Cuts the Multiverse Down to SizeThe great physicist's library of work is now complete.
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Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern PhysicsThere's something out there that physicists have never seen before, and it's coming up from the bottom of the Earth. Scientists think it's a brand-new particle.
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Your most distant cousin doesn't even have an anusNo animal is less related to you than a sea sponge, and they've got the genes and nerveless, anus-less bodies to prove it.
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Telescope lasers could give humanity an edge in war against space junkSpace junk is a growing problem. Scientists want to fight it with lasers that can de-twinkle the stars.
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After 48-year search, physicists discover ultra-rare 'triple glueball' particleA never-before-seen particle known as the odderon has revealed itself in the hot guts of two particle colliders, confirming a 48-year-old theory.
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A third of Antarctic ice shelves could collapse at current pace of warmingA third of Antarctica's vast offshore ice shelves would risk collapse into the ocean if the world warms by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
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Two satellites might collide at 32,000 mph over the Arctic todayThere's a 20% chance of a disastrous collision, according to the European Union.
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Interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua came from an 'alien Pluto,' new study suggestsBack in 2017, a point of strange light flashed through the solar system. Three years later, a new team of scientists claims to have figured out what it was.
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NASA tested its new moon rocket in Mississippi, and it only caught on fire a little bitNASA conducted its second major test of its powerful new moon rocket, the Space Launch System, and it was mostly a success.
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Scientists grew human tear ducts in a lab and taught them to cryThe glands had no openings so they swelled up like "balloons."
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Ozone-destroying CFCs could make late-21st-century comebackThe chemicals that tore a hole in the ozone layer are set to make a comeback in the late 21st century, in a process accelerated by climate change.
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US Air Force says it will test bizarre 'hypersonic' weapon this monthAt some point in the next few weeks, the U.S. plans to fire an extreme, hypersonic weapon. The question remains: What's the point?
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Monster antimatter particle slams into AntarcticaThe most remote particle detector on Earth has detected the most energetic antimatter neutrino ever, confirming a 51-year-old prediction.
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China and Russia say they will join forces to build moon baseTwo of the world's most powerful spacefaring nations are teaming up for their most ambitious project yet: a Chinese-Russian research station on the moon.
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Meteor explodes over Vermont with the force of 440 pounds of TNTIf you live in Vermont and heard an explosion just before dinnertime Sunday (March 7), there's a good chance that was a shockwave from an incoming meteor exploding over the state.
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Scientists grow human-Neanderthal hybrid 'minibrains' in petri dishesSesame seed-sized hybrids of human and Neanderthal brains sparked briefly to life in a laboratory, offering tantalizing clues as to how the organs have evolved over millennia.
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SpaceX successfully landed its giant Starship, but it exploded a few minutes laterWe've got good news and bad news about the latest explosive SpaceX Starship test in Boca Chica, Texas.
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Watch SpaceX launch and (hopefully) land its giant 10th Starship prototype todaySpaceX looks set to launch yet another Starship prototype over Texas today. Two previous tests ended in explosions.
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Could a nuclear reactor help solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance?Could this finally confirm whether a piece of her plane has been found?
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Watch the astonishing video of Perseverance landing on MarsFor the first time ever, you can watch video of a rover landing on Mars. It's amazing.
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Perseverance beams back first images of MarsNASA's Perseverance rover sent home two images immediately upon its successful landing on the Martian surface Thursday (Feb. 18).
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NASA rover Perseverance survives death-defying plunge, lands safely on MarsNASA's rhinoceros-size Perseverance rover pulled off the most precise landing in Martian history Thursday (Feb. 18), touching down successfully in Jezero crater.
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Planet 9 probably doesn't exist, new paper arguesDoes the solar system really have a big, dark ninth planet drifting somewhere far beyond the orbit of Neptune? A new paper argues that Planet 9 is a statistical mirage.
