Dropping Ice Down A 90m Borehole In Antarctica Makes A Very Unexpected Sound

Excerpt from Juno Mission Trailer Video Credit: NASA, JPL, Juno Mission 

Watch the full 2 minute trailer on APOD here.

Night time is the Earth’s natural state and the only reason we have day time is because some massive light faces us every 12 hours.

look at these beautiful artistic impressions of the new planet discovered by a 17 year old three days into their NASA internship

hey i’ve thought of a new way to explain the difference between math research and science research are u ready math research: Why does pizza get hot in an oven? Well, let’s first prove ovens exist. Then we can try to prove ovens get hot.  Wait, have we even proved that pizza exists? Have we proved that pizza can get hot? Have we proved that heat exists? Have we proved that I exist? That you exist? science research: Why does pizza get hot in an oven? *sticks hand into burning oven* ahhHHHHHHHHHH WHAT’S HAPPENING

Big math news! It’s been thirty years since mathematicians last found a convex pentagon that could “tile the plane.” The latest discovery (by Jennifer McLoud-Mann, Casey Mann, and David Von Derau) was published earlier this month. Full story.

A picture demonstrating how smoke is particulate matter suspended in air.

When Apollo 11 successfully landed and the images were released, ‘The Sun’ newspaper in Vancouver changed it’s name to ‘The Moon’ to report it.