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Buddhist Iron Man Discovered by Nazis Came from Outer Space
It’s like Indiana Jones, Marvel and 2001: A Space Odyssey all in one story. Scientists have discovered that an “Iron Man” sculpture discovered by Nazis, likely as part of a 1938-39 exhibition to...
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Artists Seal Planetary Doom: Beam Twitter Into Space
When the Voyager 2 space probe was launched in 1977 containing depictions of the human race, precise directions to Earth, and a golden record with lots and lots of audio recordings of our culture,...
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That’s No Moon, That’s a Delicious Spherical Ice Cream Cake
Cute little moon, don’t you think? Think again, because it’s made of ice cream cake. Häagen-Dazs partnered with design firm Doshi Levien to create these cakes for the 2012 Christmas season. Above, the...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Has Found Superman’s Home Planet Of Krypton, With Science
We here at The Mary Sue have a very fond affection for astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. He’s just so cool! Well his coolness factor just went up exponentially. He’s found Krypton. In case you’re...
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New Baby Room Idea: The ABCs of Spaceships
I’m trying to think of a favorite spaceship that isn’t on this list, but all I’m coming up with is Moya from Farscape, and I’ll admit that in a fight based on notoriety alone the Millennium Falcon...
View ArticleI’m Betting This is The Cutest Video Featuring the Curiosity Rover We’ll See...
Melbourne, Australia commissioned a cute video to remind its passengers to exercise save behavior when boarding trains or waiting at stations called “Dumb Ways to Die.” Seattle’s Cinesaurus created...
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Things We Saw Today: Blueprints for Pacific Rim‘s Massive Robots
The viral marketing on this movie is just ramping up, and we couldn’t be more into it. (/Film) ‘Everything You Need to Know About Domestic Violence – From a Prosecutor” is a illuminating read. (The...
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Hey, Everyone! NASA Found Water On M…ercury
Look, last week NASA got everyone excited when they said they might have found something “earthshaking” on Mars. Then they gave a press conference and told us they found ice…on Mercury. I hereby...
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Missing Moon Rocks Returned to Their Rightful Home: Alaska, Also Deadliest...
There are so few moon rocks (that is, rocks from the Moon. Confusing, I know) on Earth that they’re considered priceless. Twenty years ago, 0.2 grams of lunar rock sold at auction for more than four...
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NASA Astronauts Are Starting To Look Like Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear
NASA did have an astronaut named Buzz so maybe this new spacesuit is more appropriate than we thought. You’re looking at the Z-1 Prototype Spacesuit and Portable Life Support System 2.0, aka a real...
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The Cosmic ABCs, Featuring Stars, Wars, Treks, and More…
Enable JavaScript to check out our fancy slideshow. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Designer and printer Brad and Sara McNally rallied a number of artists to put together a series of twenty-six images that...
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Kate Winslet to Go to Space After Saving Woman From Fire; Is Captain Marvel,...
For anyone who isn’t up on their superheroes at the moment, Captain Marvel is the current alias of Carol Danvers (yes, a Marvel superhero, not like that guy who shouts Shazam, and now also goes by the...
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Star Trek’s Captain Kirk Tweets At CSA’s Commander Hadfield
It’s one thing to see science and science-fiction collide in something like the real sonic screwdriver, but it’s another when characters are involved. Star Trek’s own Captain Kirk, William Shatner,...
View ArticleStar Trek’s Leonard Nimoy Narrates NASA Asteroid Video
I’m convinced having Leonard Nimoy doing voiceovers for space videos is the only way to go. Here he is now narrating a video about NASA’s Dawn mission. It’s goal is to study two of our universe’s...
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Things We Saw Today: Felicia Day Returns to Supernatural
Felicia Day (and LARPing) return to Supernatural next week. I don’t need science to tell me that baby pandas are cute, but whatever, thanks, science. (The Frisky) Zach Snyder‘s camp has denied the...
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NASA to Build Bouncy Castle in Space
NASA awarded a $17.8 million contract on January 16th to Las Vegas based Bigelow Aerospace to manufacture and test an inflatable International Space Station (ISS) module. This isn’t the first bouncy...
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Things We Saw Today: Montreal, From Space
Colonel Chris Hadfield has a tumblr where he posts pictures taken from his current home. His current home is the International Space Station. Do you want a couch that looks like Hillary Clinton...
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How Nice: NASA’s Giving the Entire Eastern Seaboard a Complimentary Light...
Usually, watching a NASA rocket launch from your home is something reserved for Floridians, but tonight, that’s an honor offered to a huge swath of the Northeastern American coast (if those pesky...
View Article7th Grade Girls Send Hello Kitty to the Edge of Space, Make Cool Video
Well, this sure makes me want to do some science this weekend. 7the graders at Cornerstone Christian school performed this experiment on “the effects of altitude on air pressure and temperature.” And...
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Asteroid Will Pass Between Us and the Moon Next Friday, but We’ll be Totally...
Meet Asteroid DA14. Well, I should say, you will be meeting Asteroid DA14 in about a week, when it becomes the closest non-man-made object of its size to be near the Earth in a very long time. Sigh....
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