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Former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin joins a group tackling conspiracy theories about the moon landing — and the space program in general — in a new Science Channel series. Called “Truth Behind the Moon Landing,” the six-episode series premiered June 2 at 10 p.m. EDT/PDT on the Science Channel and …
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As humanity gears up to return to the moon, more and more people may deny that we ever went there in the first place. Just a small sliver of the American populace currently believes the Apollo moon landings were faked; polls consistently put the number at around 5%, said Roger Launius, who served …
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The blood-red color of the moon during a total lunar eclipse may be difficult to explain without a basic understanding of orbital mechanics, but flat-Earth conspiracy theorists have come up with a way to circumvent scientific facts and construct a creative explanation of the phenomenon. During the …
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Steph Curry is sorry for all the trouble his moon-landing comments have caused. On a podcast that aired last week, the NBA superstar said he doesn’t believe that humanity actually landed on the moon. The offhand remark (which was echoed by several other NBA players on the podcast) went viral, …
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NASA wants to show NBA superstar Steph Curry some rock-solid evidence that people have indeed been to the moon. On The Ringer’s “Winging It” podcast yesterday (Dec. 10), Curry expressed doubt that the Apollo moon landings actually happened. Pretty much out of the blue, the point guard asked …
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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Could 2,000 years of belief be wrong? Are we in fact living on a disc rather than a globe? One believer from the Flat Earth Society is determined to …
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Here are some of the wildest perennial space myths that just won’t go die. Credit: NASA/Getty On the internet, you need to be a skeptical reader these days. Claims of aliens and UFOs, Mars being abnormally big, or the moon turning green are the kinds of things you should check out carefully. Here …
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This Friday (Sept. 16) an ethically questionable and totally thrilling fake documentary about the first moon landing premieres in theaters. In the film, titled “Operation avalanche,” two CIA agents pose as documentary filmmakers to infiltrate NASA and investigate a Russian mole. Then they stage the …
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Even Moon landing hoaxers toe the party line. Who knew? A study reported on by our sister site LiveScience reveals that the polarizing rift between Democrats and Republicans hits conspiracy theorists, too. The report by Bad Science debunker Ben Radford states: As one might expect, the more far-out …
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Apologies to anyone whose bubble will burst, but “Apollo 18,” the film opening Friday (Sept. 2), is fictional. The film, purporting to be produced from footage kept secret by NASA and leaked to the media, chronicles a NASA mission to the moon that went awry when astronauts encountered signs of …
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