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Planetary Resources, a company founded by several space entrepreneurs and backed by such high-profile names as James Cameron, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt, plans to begin prospecting for natural resources like water or precious metals in near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) by 2022. Co-founder Peter Diamandis claims that “everything we hold of value on Earth — metals, minerals, energy, real estate, water …

Virgin Group founder Richard Branson announced on Friday that the NBC television network will be tracking preparations and will broadcast the inaugural flight of his Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two rocket plane into space. If tests and plans go according to schedule, Branson and his two children, Holly, 31 and Sam, 28, could blast off into space from New Mexico next …

NASA is reporting that a massive solar flare erupted from the Sun Tuesday, January 7. The solar flare is associate with one of the largest sunspot groups seen on the Sun’s surface in a decade! The sunspot is currently in the middle of the Sun as seen from earth. NASA officials say it is as wide as seven Earths!

For those still on the fence regarding the existence of the legendary Bigfoot, hunter Rick Dyer is here to offer you proof that they’re out there. And hey look, he even shot and killed one for you to pay to see.

A lot of people say they saw a strange thing in the sky over California on New Year’s Eve and they say it wasn’t fireworks, but a UFO. They saw multiple glowing objects over several cities including Sacramento, Auburn and Stockton. Someone captured video of a similar image in the sky over Hollywood, spotted during the fireworks.

A mission to build the first human settlement on Mars, which drew 200,000 applicants, said it has already shortlisted about a thousand candidates who will now be tested to come up with a final list of 24 people who will go live in the red planet by 2025.

Weather forecasters on exoplanet GJ 1214b would have an easy job. Today’s forecast: cloudy. Tomorrow: overcast. Extended outlook: more clouds. A team of scientists led by researchers in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago report they have definitively characterized the atmosphere of a super-Earth class planet orbiting another star for the first time.

The hottest peppers in the world are grown in South Carolina, the Guinness Book of World Records says. Ed Currie took a sweet hot pepper from the Caribbean and worked to make it hotter, spending more than four years working with students at Winthrop University who test food as part of their undergraduate classes to certify the amount of heat.

Organizations that actively block efforts to address climate change are funded by a large network of conservative donors to the tune of nearly $1 billion a year, according to the first in-depth study into the dark money that fuels the denial effort. The new research confirms the role of some famous ultra-free market conservative foundations such as the Searle Freedom …

An analysis of a fossil bone suggests Neanderthals may have had the ability to speak, an Australian researcher says. Stephen Wroe of the University of New South Wales, working with an international team, says the researchers were able to determine how the Hyoid bone — a horseshoe shaped structure in the neck — worked in Neanderthals. Wroe said the findings …

American inventions have been changing the world for last three centuries. Even though, scientists don’t like to call it “American” inventions, they just believe that they do their job for the humanity as a whole, and they also don’t want their work to be linked with a particular identity. But of course, for understanding, we like to know what are …