From a distance, Uranus is one of the most attractive objects in the Solar System. A pale blue sphere, calm and evenly colored, floating out there in the dark. That...
Category - Cosmos
Everest is 8.8 km tall and thousands of people have stood on top of it. Olympus Mons is 25 km tall, and nobody has been anywhere near it. Its base covers roughly the...
The Solar System looks stable. Planets in their lanes, everything running on schedule, the same arrangement holding for billions of years. Now picture looking up one...
Five billion years from now, the Sun will be running out. Assuming anyone is still here to care, that becomes an urgent problem, because a star running low on fuel is a...
One day, we want to take humanity into space. But why don’t we start small? Take one solar power station, 10,000 people, and 10 million tons of crumbled Moon rock...
How long would we have untill the Earth got crushed into nothingness? What would we observe from down here? And what would happen next? It’s generally accepted...
What would occur if another universe suddenly collided with ours? Though this sounds like something out of science fiction, some scientists have thought about whether...
Space tourism is happening now. Soon enough, you might be able to take your own vacation into the cosmos. What would your travel experience be like? What would you see...
If the Universe is full of stars, why doesn’t it appear white? And if it did, what would that look like? Would all the black holes suddenly become visible? And if...
