World’s Strangest

Water is one of the most important substances on the planet yet mystery still surrounds many of its properties, exactly how much do we really know abo…

(YouTube Link) Solar Dog is a prototype cell phone recharging station developed by Erik Schiegg of Switzerland. The user mounts it on a dog’s back to collect solar energy as it plays outside. Schiegg writes: My Android phone is charged in no time… The dog feels good and I’m feeling good and planet mud is turned a [...]

The most likely extrasolar planet to support life yet found has been discovered 40 light years away. The planet is thought to be mostly composed o…

Theories as to how the planet Uranus ended up rotating on its side range from a gradual wobble to a cataclysmic collision, but astronomers now thi…

Uranus lies on its side. It has an axial tilt of over 90 degrees relative to the plane of the solar system. As a result, each pole gets 42 YEARS of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of continuous darkness. It has always been assumed that during the formation of the solar system, a protoplanet [...]

For years some people have believed that a planet known as Nibiru will soon collide with the Earth and bring about the apocalypse. With 2012 growi…

When it comes to searching our solar system for signs of extraterrestrial life the planet Mars and Jupiter’s icy moon Europa remain the two top po…

A new ring discovered around the planet Saturn is the largest known planetary ring in the solar system, it is in fact so large that if it were vis…

Its one of the most destructive forces on the planet and now scientists have been given the chance to take a glimpse for the first time at the plu…

Astronomers have discovered a rocky extrasolar planet orbiting a distant star that is 1.5 times the size of the Earth but that orbits so close to …