This Spacecraft Fairytale Will Make Anyone Excited About Outer Space

Rosetta is traveling to unknown lands. Her voyage has gone on nearly a decade. With her lander Philae, she’s mankind’s most intrepid explorer, headed for a mysterious destination called Churyumov–Gerasimenko. It’s not a fictitious fairytale. It’s science.

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Watch Today’s ISS Spacewalk Live, Right Here, Right Now

Watch Today's ISS Spacewalk Live, Right Here, Right Now

It’s no lazy Saturday on the International Space Station: astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Michael Hopkins have just begun the first of three spacewalks to fix a faulty cooling loop on the outside of the ISS. And you can watch it live.

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Beyoncé: Drunk In Love

Beyoncé dropped her surprise album exclusively on iTunes in the wee hours of Friday morning and it’s already sold a million copies. It’s a "visual album," featuring 14 songs and 17 videos, and it’s somewhat of a left turn from the way we’ve become used to consuming music these days.

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Ruin Christmas Early With Scientifically Accurate Santa

What’s that you say? Santa’s existence is actually impossible? Sure you may have heard some of these facts stated before, but never this musically—or with this much absurd animation.

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Using Plasma To Clean Glass Is Amazing, Plus Hilariously Roundabout

So there’s Windex, but if that’s feeling too cleaning product-y for you, be aware that you can also clean glass with pure oxygen plasma. Sure.

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This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Victoria’s Secret Semi-Annual Sale

Victoria’s Secret is having its big semi-annual sale. But wait, didn’t they just have one? Like, not that long ago? What the hell does semi-annual even mean? Better not waste any time though — it sounds like the sale is ending soon.

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Interstellar Trailer: A Brief History of Flying

Christopher Nolan’s next epic movie is called Interstellar. It’s about space travel. It comes out a year from today. That’s everything we learned about the movie from this trailer, and we’re dying to know more.

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Red Hot Nickel Ball vs. Paper: 1, 2, 3, Burn

Everyone’s favorite Red Hot Nickel Ball has taken on a rogue’s gallery of adversaries in its day, with varying levels of success. Now the spherical metal "rock" is taking on its greatest challenger ever: paper.

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Watch a Huge, Newly Discovered Asteroid Almost Graze Earth

This beautiful tracking video shows Asteroid 2013 XY8 buzzing our planet on Tuesday night. It’s estimated to be up to 230 feet across, more than three times the size of the Chelyabinsk asteroid that caused havoc earlier this year. And we only discovered it four days ago. This could’ve gotten hairy.

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This Week’s Top Comedy Video: The Onion Debates Stop-And-Kiss

This week, The Onion takes a look at the NYPD’s most controversial tactic: stop and kiss. Tensions run high between supporters and opponents in the debate over this police activity.

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