Science & Tech

Yes, the planetary probe Voyager 1, launched in the era of Jimmy Carter and bell-bottoms, has finally left the room, so to speak, years after completing its primary mission.

At first glance, we thought it was a Star Wars character. But, no, the blobfish is a real creature that bobs around in the waters off Australia.

The tallest peak in North America is not as tall as previously thought. Denali was measured at 20,237 feet – 83 feet shorter than maps indicate today.

Hundreds of aftershocks are rattling the Aleutian Chain following a 7.0 earthquake near Adak on Friday.

The Space Fence is the radar system that tracks thousands of objects orbiting Earth.

As Adam Frank has said over on the 13.7 blog, “Earth and Mars have been swapping spit (astrobiologically speaking) for eons … [and] it is entirely possible we were Earth’s first alien invasion.”