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WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Galaxy Spills Its Entrails
This new Hubble image shows spiral galaxy ESO 137-001, framed against a bright background as it moves through the heart of galaxy cluster Abell 3627. This cluster is violently ripping the spiral’s entrails out into space, leaving bright blue streaks ...
Proposed California Law Would Free SeaWorld’s Orcas
A California lawmaker has proposed a ban on keeping killer whales in captivity for purposes of human entertainment. The Orca Welfare and Safety Act would outlaw SeaWorld-style shows, as well as captive breeding of creatures that may simply be too ...
How to Make a Microscope Out of Paper in 10 Minutes
A new microscope can be printed on a flat piece of paper and assembled in less than 10 minutes. And the parts to make it cost less than a dollar.
WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Disintegrating Asteroid
This series of images shows the asteroid P/2013 R3 breaking apart, as viewed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 2013. This is the first time that such a body has been seen to undergo this kind of break-up. The ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why Cosmos Will Be Better Than Ever
Hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey hits Fox in March. Tyson talked with WIRED about inheriting the Carl Sagan’s mantle, what the new Cosmos hopes to teach us, and the future of science and education in ...
Absurd Creature of the Week: The 28-Foot Sea Monster That Can Survive Being Cut in Half
In 1973, American soldiers on the Mekong River in Laos killed and hauled ashore a massive 24-foot ribbon of a fish. It was the “Queen of the Naga,” claimed a postcard still widely circulated in Southeast Asia with the above ...
Science Graphic of the Week: Arctic Sea Ice Takes a Hit From Warm Rivers
For our second Science Graphic of the Week, we bring you some beautiful views of some bad news. The images in the gallery above show how pulses of warm water, dumped into chilly Arctic seas by rivers crossing continents, are ...
WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Ancient Planetary Nebula
This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Abell 74 is an ancient planetary nebula. Because of its age it is a very faint target. Ancient ...
El Niño May Soak Drought-Ravaged California This Year
A bulletin posted today from NOAA stated that the climate event known as El Niño has a 50 percent chance of returning this summer or fall. If it appears, it could mean heavy rainfall next winter for drought-stricken California and ...
What Happens in the Brain When Blind People Learn to See With Sound
Deprived of sight, blind people manage to squeeze an amazing amount of information out of their other senses. Doing this requires their brains to do some reorganizing. To learn about some of these changes, scientists studied the brains of blind people ...
Bizarre Organic Quasicrystal Accidentally Created in Lab
Quasicrystals have teased and intrigued scientists for three decades. Now, this already strange group of materials has a new member: a bizarre, two-dimensional quasicrystal made from self-assembling organic molecules.
Watch Live as an Asteroid Slices Between the Earth and Moon
An asteroid discovered on Feb. 28 will be zipping by our planet today, coming inside the orbit of the moon. You can watch a live show from the folks at the Slooh Space Camera consortium, who will try to track ...
WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Black Hole Spin
Multiple images of a distant quasar are visible in this combined view from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. The Chandra data, along with data from ESA's XMM-Newton, were used to directly measure the spin of the ...
Incredible HD Video of Earth From Space Brings Maps to Life
The video above was taken by a satellite, from space. It has enough resolution to watch individual cars move down the road and identify specific planes at the Beijing airport. The footage is from Skybox Imaging, a company that has ...
Europa Mission Gets Boost From President’s New NASA Budget
A dedicated mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, one of the best bets for life beyond Earth in our solar system, has inched a little closer to reality today.
WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Galactic Quintet
Stephan's Quintet, a compact group of galaxies discovered about 130 years ago and located about 280 million light years from Earth, provides a rare opportunity to observe a galaxy group in the process of evolving from an X-ray faint system ...
WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Curiosity as Ansel Adams
This landscape scene photographed by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows rows of rocks in the foreground and Mount Sharp on the horizon. Curiosity's Navigation Camera (Navcam) took the component images for this mosaic during a pause in driving on the ...
Strange Signal From Galactic Center Is Looking More and More Like Dark Matter
The more that scientists stare at it, the more a strange signal from the center of the Milky Way galaxy appears to be the result of dark matter annihilation. If confirmed, it would be the first direct evidence for dark ...
14 World-Changing Data Visualizations, From the Last 4 Centuries
Science may be difficult, but it definitely doesn’t have to be ugly. These images, from a new exhibit at the British Library, show how beautiful scientific data can be.
WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Life Cycle of Stars
In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the crisp resolution of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures various stages of the life cycle of stars in one single view.
