Our solid core has given us life as we know it. But what if Earth was hollow?
Scroll down to watch our video. Unless you’re an astronaut, you probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gravity. We all take gravity for granted...
After getting picked up and handcuffed, you’re brought onto a bus with other detainees. You cross the “Bridge of Pain” and are escorted to your new home for the...
Scientists theorize that many millions of years ago, Mars had rings, just like Saturn. And it looks like the red planet could be due for a new set of rings in the future...
About 66 million years ago, Earth was struck by one of the most powerful events in its history. A massive asteroid, roughly the size of a mountain, was racing through...
For whatever reason, you are the last human on Earth. So what do you do? Eat like a king? Move into Buckingham Palace? Drive fast? Blow things up? Be naked all the time...
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Latin America Became One Country Overnight, and the U.S. Would Face a New Superpower
Latin America is divided among more than 20 independent countries and territories, each with its own government, economy, culture, and history. Yet for centuries...
Scroll down to watch our video. Where would I be without you, Mr. Mittens? It’s not a meme; it’s a fact: We can’t live without cats. Do you know why...
Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System, and it is also one of the most extreme places humans could ever encounter. This massive gas giant is filled with...
It’s been 30 days since Uranus first appeared in the sky. At first, it looked like our Moon had found itself a stellar partner. But then, we understood something...
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Every Blazar We Can See Is Already Aimed at Earth, and Here Is How Long We’d Have
Here is the part that unsettles astronomers. Every blazar we can see is already pointing its jet directly at Earth. Not most of them. All of them. Any blazar aiming its...
Most people assume that being struck by an intense beam of radiation would be instantly fatal. For Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski, it should have been. Instead, he...
You might be wondering how I keep ending up in these situations. Well, let me roll it back a bit. Triton, Neptune’s gargantuan moon, is one of the strangest objects in...
A Sherpa was missing for six days in Mount Everest’s death zone. He survived on discarded food left behind by previous climbers as he slowly crawled his way back to base...
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Scientists Say a Carrington Event Could Send the World Into Darkness, and This Is How You Survive the First 72 Hours
It is 2 A.M. when your pregnant wife Chanelle suddenly shakes you awake. Her contractions are only eight minutes apart, but before you can even get out of bed, you...
They can endure the cold reaches of space. Go without food or water for up to 30 years. And are nearly indestructible. But they’re, like, really tiny. So, there’s not a...
Imagine the Sun releasing a burst of energy so powerful it could knock out power grids, stop airplanes mid flight, and push our world back into the dark ages. This is...
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Saturn’s Rings Are Only the Beginning, and the Planet Beneath Them Is Far More Extreme
As you approached Saturn, you would be the first human to take in the glory of its rings and its swirling atmosphere in person. Along the way, you would pass a few of...
Most of us think of contagious diseases as illnesses like the flu, the common cold, or strep throat. You catch them from someone else through viruses or bacteria...
A bull can look calm one moment and become dangerously aggressive the next. During crowded festivals such as Pamplona’s famous running of the bulls, thousands of...
