Kelly Dickerson

Remember Tom DeLonge of early-2000s pop-punk band Blink-182? Remember how he took a break from the band to focus on a multimedia project about UFOs and the government? Turns out, the singer-guitarist has contacted Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman…

Many scientists think an Earth-like planet is our best bet for finding alien life, but new research may have just turned that assumption on its head. A paper published Oct. 5 in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface suggests that planets with…

Astronomers using the Hubble space telescope spotted balls of scorching-hot plasma twice the size of Mars streaking through the cosmos. These giant "stellar cannonballs" have been erupting once every 8.5 years for the last 400 years, the…

If we're living in a computer simulation like in The Matrix, how would we know? It might be really hard to tell, according to philosophers and physicists.  It seems some leaders in Silicon Valley are taking the possibility seriously. At least two…

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos just successfully tested the in-flight escape system for his reusable New Shepard rocket that could someday carry tourists to the edge of space and back.  During the test flight, the space capsule successfully ejected…

Sometimes, not even a scientist can rule out aliens.  The more we study the star called KIC 8462852, nicknamed "Tabby's star," the more mysterious it becomes. The latest research by astronomers Josh Simon and Ben Montet show Tabby's star has…

There are things happening all around us that we can't see.  If humans could see in wavelengths beyond visible light, the whole cosmos would look like a glowing, sparkling ball of light. Some of that extra light we can't see is made of X-rays that…

Scientists have spent years fussing over Enceladus and Titan. But there's another moon of Saturn with a giant ocean below its surface, and it's been chilling in the background waiting to be discovered. New data from the Cassini spacecraft shows…

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say they will release the full dash cam and body cam video footage of the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott next week, according to WCNC.  Scott's family requested to see the footage in its entirety and then have it…

BuzzFeed reported Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had a role in a Playboy softcore porn video in 2000.  According to BuzzFeed, Trump's role is "relatively benign" and limited to breaking a bottle of Champagne and pouring it over the…

The attorney for Betty Shelby, the Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer charged with first-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting Terence Crutcher, said Shelby had temporary hearing loss during the confrontation, and that's why she didn't hear another…

On Tuesday, Elon Musk revealed plans for a giant spacecraft capable of carrying 100 people all the way to Mars. His ultimate goal is to set up a thriving human colony on the red planet. But right now, Musk estimates a ticket on this giant…

Elon Musk just revealed the plans for SpaceX's new Interplanetary Transport System — a giant spacecraft designed to carry humans to Mars and beyond. "What I want to try to achieve here is to make Mars seem possible," Musk said during a presentation…

Is anybody out there? We might find out soon. The world's largest radio telescope is now up and running in China, and it's already searching for undiscovered stars and galaxies and listening for signs of alien life. The 500-meter Aperture Spherical…

New research from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed possible water plumes erupting from Jupiter's moon Europa.  The new Hubble images revealed "finger-like projections" coming from Europa. Researchers think the fingers are 125-mile-long…

Physicist Stephen Hawking has issued yet another warning regarding how aliens could be incredibly dangerous and why we'd be foolish to try and communicate with them.  "If intelligent life has evolved (on a nearby exoplanet), we should be able to…

The EM Drive is one of the most controversial pieces of technology in the realm of space science, and it's about to be put to the test for the first time. Theoretically, the EM Drive can generate thrust without producing exhaust. That means it's…

The possibility of life on Mars just got a lot more interesting. New research suggests that streams and lakes on the red planet actually appeared about a billion years later than we originally thought. That means that not very long ago, Mars had the…

When a star drifts too close to a black hole, it meets a grisly fate. The black hole stretches out the star and eventually swallows it up. The violent feeding frenzy is called a "stellar tidal disruption," according to NASA. The event generates a…