By: Katy Evans/IFL Science Add the word space to the front of any other word and it immediately becomes infinitely cooler. Space cowboy, space archaeologist, and now space funeral. A British company has launched a brand new service that sends the remains of your loved ones into space. Their ashes will be released into the cosmos, making the…
Enormous Meteor With Energy Equal To 540 Tonnes Of TNT Spotted Over China
By: Chris Jones/IFLScience The sky was lit up on the night of 4th October 2017 a meteor tore through the atmosphere over the Shangri-La County in Yunnan Province of China. The meteor was spotted at around 8 pm local time, and luckily, many locals captured the spectacular event on camera. According to NASA’s Center For Near-Earth Object Studies,…
Gravitational Wave Researchers Just Won The Nobel Prize For Physics
By: Alfredo Carpineti/IFLScience The Royal Swedish Academy of Science has given the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne for their work with the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration and the 2015 discovery of gravitational waves. This announcement sparked little surprise as gravitational waves were tipped to be the likely winning subject of this year’s physics…
Elon Musk Just Revealed Exciting New Details About His Plans To Colonize Mars
By: Jonathan O’Callaghan/IFL Science Elon Musk has updated us on his plans to colonize Mars in typical Elon Musk fashion, outlining some rather grand goals and an ambitious roadmap to get there. The SpaceX CEO revealed new details in a talk today at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia. This was basically an update from the…
Gravitational Waves Have Officially Been Detected Again
By: Alfredo Carpineti/IFL Science Scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the VIRGO collaboration have announced in a press conference the detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes for the fourth time. However, this time it was seen by three observatories. The two black holes that merged are located 1.7 billion light-years away, with a mass of…
What On Earth Is Going On With The Sun Right Now?
By: Jonathan O’Callaghan/IFL Science Seven days. Seven flares. Is the end of times upon us? A week ago, the Sun unleashed its biggest solar flare in more than a decade, a monster X9.3 storm that knocked out radio communications on Earth. This was the second of the week, but the Sun was just getting started. Over…
Black Hole 100,000 Times The Mass Of The Sun Discovered In Our Own Galaxy
By: Alfredo Carpineti/IFL Science Astronomers from Keio University, Japan, have observed what looks like the largest intermediate-mass black hole within the Milky Way. The object is estimated to weigh 100,000 times the mass of the Sun and is located near the center of the galaxy. The study, published in Nature Astronomy, focused on a large molecular…
Elon Musk Just Shared the First Photo of SpaceX’s Space Suits
By: Dom Galeon/Futurism Founder and CEO Elon Musk took to Instagram today to post the first of several previews of SpaceX’s space suit. This futuristic space suit aims to combine 21st-century aesthetics with advanced functionality. This past weekend, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk promised to reveal photos of the space suit his company has been developing…
Intense Energies Flooding The Planet This Week
By: Educate Inspire Change As the Total Solar Eclipse gets closer and closer to its arrival date, energies are rising more rapidly than ever. Just in the last few weeks, things have become increasingly intense and ‘rough.’ Have you noticed people acting out of normal? Like a person who is normally chilled out becoming anxious? This…