Picture standing on Mars and looking up at a ring stretching across the sky. Beautiful, until you understand what those rings eventually do. Every piece of that debris...
Category - Cosmos
One quadrillion gauss. A one with fifteen zeros behind it. That is the magnetic field strength of a magnetar, and to put it in perspective, Earth’s own field...
On Earth, rain is water. That is the only version any of us has ever known. Somewhere out there, rain is liquid iron falling through a 2,200 degree sky. Somewhere else...
The hatch opens and the first thing that hits you is the light. Not the bright white glare you have known your entire life. Everything here glows deep orange, a...
Picture lying down to sleep on Pandora. There is no darkness. There never is. Alpha Centauri B hangs in the sky even at night, and some estimates suggest it could shine...
Every winter, brave souls around the world cut holes in frozen lakes and jump in for a few seconds of icy glory. They call it extreme. The universe finds that adorable...
The recipe for a star is shockingly simple. Take hydrogen, add mass, and wait for the crush of gravity to ignite the fire. Jupiter has the hydrogen. Jupiter has enormous...
Somewhere right now, in a conference room full of planetary scientists, an argument is quietly raging. On one side: the Mars camp, backed by sixty years of missions...
MSN New, Cosmos
NASA’s Moon City Isn’t Science Fiction Anymore. Here’s What Living There Would Cost You
Everything you take for granted has a price on the Moon. Air is manufactured. Water is mined and recycled endlessly. Warmth is engineered. Even a walk outside requires...
