NASA Stares Down at Mars, Sees Bear’s Face Staring Back
A formation on the surface of Mars sure looks like a bear’s face looking back up at NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona This story is part of Welcome to Mars,…
NASA Looks Down on Mars, Sees Bear’s Face Staring Back
A funny formation on the surface of Mars sure looks like a bear’s face staring back up at the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona This story is part of Welcome…
This Bear Really Knows How to Take a Selfie
More selfies than you average bear. Boulder OSMP You never know what you might capture with a wildlife camera. Maybe a coyote and badger acting like buds. Or human pranksters…
2,300-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy Covered in Gold Unwrapped After Century in Basement
The gilded face mask of the Golden Boy mummy. SN Saleem/SA Seddik/M el-Halwagy The mummified remains of a teenage boy, stored unexamined at a museum in Cairo for over a…
How to Watch Earth’s Extremely Close Encounter With an Asteroid Today
In this illustration, the asteroid is shown in the foreground in the lower left. The two bright points above it on the far left are Earth (right) and the moon…
Bear Snaps 400 Selfies in One Night With Wildlife Camera
More selfies than you average bear. Boulder OSMP You never know what you might capture with a wildlife camera. Maybe a coyote and badger acting like buds. Or human pranksters…
Robots Fitted With Live Locust Antennae Could Be the Next Sniffer Dogs
An image of the team’s biohybrid contraption. Tel Aviv University If you’re like me, you want to win the airport security line. I’m always determined to get my baggage in…
Scientists Find Elusive, Grumpy-Looking Cats Living on Mount Everest
Pallas’s cats are known for their not-suffering-any-fools facial expressions. Julie Larsen Maher/WCS Humans are famously obsessed with Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. Each year, climbers attempt to summit it.…
How to Find the Absolute Weirdest Spectacles on Google Street View
Caught on Street View in Tokyo. Google/neal.fun Once upon a time, a man in Ontario was rummaging through the backseat of a white car. I don’t know what he was…
Asteroid to rocket past Earth in one of closest encounters ever
An asteroid will fly past Earth on Thursday night in one of the closest such encounters ever recorded. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, this will be a near miss…