By Mark Brown, Wired UK

A new survey of the Kuiper belt — the distant area of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune — has turned up three new icy worlds that may be dwarf planets like Pluto.

Scott Sheppard, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and a team of astronomers used the 1.3-metre Warsaw Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile to...

If you find yourself at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles over the next few weeks, keep an eye out for a QR code hidden in the store. Scanning the code will send you on the path to explore time/trip LA, a time travel themed multimedia experience that takes you through eight local shops in the Hollywood area. But act fast, the installment is wrapping up at the end of August.

By Jane Doh, originally posted at ARGNet

For the next few weeks, Los Angeles residents have a chance to do something many of us can only dream about: a little time traveling, courtesy of Superfreako Productions. Participants in ...