Space

The Eeriest Place in the Universe

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Imagine being completely, utterly alone. Surrounded by no planets, no stars, no galaxies. Not a single scrap of matter – not even a hydrogen atom – within hundreds of millions of lightyears. Welcome to the loneliest place in the cosmos: the great cosmic voids.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Flu Shot Timing, Space Experiment Requirements, and Relationship Deal Breakers, According to Research

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Learn CASIS’ criteria for getting approval for a science experiment in space; when is the right time to get your flu shot; and the top 10 relationship deal breakers, according to research.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: You Like Talking to Strangers, NASA’s Golden Record, and Your Actual Friend Limit

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Learn about how many friends you can have at one time, according to research; why you might like talking to strangers more than you realize; and the golden record NASA once launched into space.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Tips for Happy, Healthy Aging (w/ Daniel Levitin) and a Massive Collision Helped Us Judge the Milky Way’s Age

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Learn about research-based advice for staying happy in your later years, from neuroscientist and author Daniel Levitin. Then, you’ll learn about how a faraway star helped researchers figure out when the Milky Way was formed.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Your Second Brain, Jupiter’s Hot Atmosphere, Placebo Buttons

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Learn about the “second brain” in your gut; what makes Jupiter’s atmosphere so hot; and why placebo buttons are useful.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: What to Do if You Can’t Sleep, Diet Soda Weight Loss Myths, and Gold from Neutron Stars

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Learn about how scientists traced some of Earth’s heaviest elements to an ancient star collision; what to do if you’re lying in bed and you can’t sleep; and whether diet soda can help you lose weight.

SpaceX’s Starlink Internet Services Now Active in Ukraine

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Responding to Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister, Mykhailo Fedorov’s plea on Twitter, SpaceX founder Elon Musk confirmed Saturday that the company’s Starlink satellite broadband service is now “active in Ukraine and more terminals are en route.”

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Finding Life on Eyeball Planets, Our Shrinking Collective Attention Span, and Deep Work Skills

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Learn about why our collective attention span is shrinking; how you can increase your productivity by building “deep work” skills; and why eyeball planets may be our best bet for finding alien life.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: If Life Existed on Mars, How Would We Know?

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Learn about how atheists and believers have different moral compasses; how scientists will know if life ever existed on Mars; and how to persuade people to do what you want using the foot-in-the-door technique.

Martian Waterways

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Find out how we know there was once water on Mars and what the NASA Mars rover, Perseverance, could possibly find during its mission.

The Biggest and Baddest

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Tune in to the premiere of Killers of the Cosmos on September 19 at 9p ET on Science Channel and discovery+.

The Frontline of Conservation

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Meet the global network of scientists who put it all on the line to save the Earth and all of its inhabitants. Endangered, narrated by Ellen DeGeneres, is streaming on discovery+.

Shatner In Space

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Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket lifts off Wed Oct 13 with William Shatner -- now the oldest person to go to space at 90.

Crew-2 Launch

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NASA and SpaceX teamed up again for their third joint crewed mission to the International Space Station. Crew-2 mission astronauts launched from Kennedy Space Center’s launch complex 39a in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Congrats NASA and SpaceX! Here's a Recap of the Splashdown to Earth

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On Sunday, August 2 at 2:48P ET, NASA Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley successfully returned home to Planet Earth. Here's everything that happened from undocking from the ISS to splashing down into the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Florida.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Types of Teen Popularity, Milky Way’s Black Holes, and Are Conspiracy Theories on the Rise?

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Learn about whether conspiracy theories are really on the rise; why there may be tens of thousands of black holes in the center of the Milky Way; and, the 3 versions of teen popularity, according to research.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Sleep vs. Exercise, Milky Way Pictures, Military Method for Sleeping Anywhere, and Voice Recording Science (w/ Matthan Ring Black)

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Learn which is more important, sleep or exercise; why you’ve never seen a picture of the whole Milky Way; a trick for falling asleep any time, anywhere, with a military-tested trick; and why your voice sounds different when you hear a recording of yourself.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Bill Nye on Why Mars 2020 Is So Exciting

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Bill Nye explains why you should be excited about the Perseverance Rover and the Mars 2020 mission. Plus: learn about why old tech is better than new tech when it comes to connecting during COVID and a 5-minute trick for falling asleep faster.