For more than a century, humanity has relied heavily on fossil fuels to power modern civilization. Oil, natural gas and coal have supplied most of the world’s...
Category - Earth
Scientists have a threshold for planetary destruction. An object roughly 96 kilometers wide, striking Earth, would wipe out every living thing on the surface. Jupiter...
MSN New, Earth, Humanity
1.4 Billion Believers Against One White House, and History Says the Church Wins
On one side sits the most powerful political office on Earth. On the other stands a man who speaks for 1.4 billion people across 183 countries. Donald Trump called the...
Something is happening beneath Antarctica that most people never think about. Under a sheet of ice larger than Europe sits a hidden landscape of mountains, valleys, and...
Look up tonight and you would see 79 moons instead of one. Most would look like unusually bright stars, but four of them would hang there as full glowing disks. It would...
MSN New, Cosmos, Earth
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...
Imagine walking across a field and suddenly seeing an animal taller than a building, stretching farther than a basketball court. It sounds impossible, but creatures of...
Have you ever played your favorite song for your dog or cat and wondered whether they actually enjoy it? Your pet may sit quietly beside you while the music plays, but...
When most people think about encountering a snake, they imagine one slithering through grass, rocks, or a dark corner on the ground. But some of the most dangerous...
