Earth & Space

Clawing open the Earth in tilt-shift imagery, set to droning industrial tones. It's more entertaining than it sounds! Video after the jump.

A justly celebrated viral video celebrates Carl Sagan's hopes for the future of humankind�a good bet, but by no means a sure one. Video after the jump.

A picture of the instruments arrayed in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which was completed in Antarctica at the end of last year, only hints at the massive scale of the science involved.

"Imagination... must not be underestimated as a valuable means to advance knowledge towards new frontiers," say the authors of a new study on the possible consequences of the discovery of extraterrestrial life; we couldn't agree more.

Scientists using NASA's orbital Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope find gamma rays and antimatter streaming out of thunderstorms into Earth's upper atmosphere.

Among the lunar-phase calendars usually found stacked in crystal shops and New-Age book stores, a radial version by designer and type founder Dimitre Lima stands out.

In the business of getting to space, an access of sublime ephemerality. Video after the jump.

Bidding starts January 13 on five hundred pieces of space-race memorabilia�including a headset worn by Charlie Duke, capcom for the Apollo 11 mission.

The largest subglacial lake in the world will begin to yield its secrets later this month, when a Russian drilling team reaches it beneath 4 km of Antarctic ice.

Mats of extremophile bacteria? Bio-colonized pigments in an ancient aboriginal petroglyph? Or an image of our nearest planetary neighbor? Answer after the jump.