These photographs by Chicago-based photographer Kyle Thompson are hands down some of the most stunning self-portraits we've ever seen.
"I started taking self portraits a little over a year ago. I was interested in photography but am terrible at talking with people," he writes in a recent imgur post. "So I ended up using myself in nearly all of my photos. I started to spend several hours a day going alone through empty forests taking self portraits with my camera's timer." More »
You might think our own sun is turbulent — but it turns out we've got it easy. Astronomers have found a gas giant, 60 light years away from Earth, that's been hit with a violent flare from its star, blasting it with an intense wave of X-ray radiation. More »
When you think about pants-wettingly terrifying apocalyptic scenarios, the most horrifying might well be the worldwide plague. A deadly disease could spread around the planet at alarming speed, and kill most of the population before we even knew what was going on. More »
