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      What If We Suddenly Lost the Moon?

      April 19, 2018
      Cosmos

      What If the Sun Exploded Tomorrow?

      December 24, 2019
      MSN New, Cosmos

      What Would Happen if a Blazar Entered Our Solar System?

      5 months ago
      Humanity

      What If One Million People Actually Stormed Area 51?

      July 18, 2019
      Humanity

      What If We Created a Second Artificial Moon?

      August 5, 2019
      MSN New, Earth

      A Planet Hit Earth 4.5 Billion Years Ago, and Its Remains Could Be Buried Deep Below Us

      Billions of years ago, another planet smashed into Earth. An event of this epicness could have created our Moon. It also could have brought alien life to our planet...

      Science

      What If All Humans Suddenly Disappeared From The Earth?

      What if human history ended today?

      Humanity, MSN New

      What Would Happen If Latin America Was a Single Country?

      Latin America is spread over both North and South America, with 19 sovereign states and one independent territory. Most of them considered developing nations. Many...

      MSN New, Humanity

      Scientists Played God and Created Artificial Life. Here’s the Risk

      You’ve seen it in the movies and read about it in books, but now the idea of creating artificial life in a laboratory is becoming a reality. In 2010, a team of...

      Cosmos

      What If Each Planet Replaced Our Moon?

      Imagine if one day you looked up into the night sky, and saw Mars or Saturn where the Moon was supposed to be. That would sure turn our Earth into an alien world. And...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      No Warning and Nowhere to Hide: This Is How Vacuum Decay Could Destroy the Universe

      Picture a change beginning somewhere far beyond our reach, spreading through space before anyone could even know it had started. Nothing would announce its arrival...

      HTS MSN

      Inside Scientology: The Dark Secrets That Former Members Say the Church Tried to Hide

      For decades, Danny Masterson was known around the world for his role as Steven Hyde on That ’70s Show. But in 2020, the actor was charged with sexually assaulting...

      MSN New, Technology

      Google Just Went Dark for a Week, and the Chaos Was Instant

      Whether it’s Apple, Microsoft, or Yahoo, only one tech giant has reigned supreme when it comes to our search engines. Google. It’s so dominant around the...

      HTS MSN

      A 136 kg Wild Boar Came After Him, and Even His House Couldn’t Stop It

      You’re enjoying a walk with your dog in the forest. Suddenly, your dog senses something and starts barking at some bushes. All you can see is a snout and two big...

      MSN New, Earth

      Could Earth Survive Spinning at the Speed of Light?

      Earth never stops moving. Right now, as you read this, the planet beneath your feet is spinning at incredible speed. At the equator, you are traveling through space at...

      MSN New, Earth

      Hundreds of Human Figures Are Slowly Becoming Part of the Ocean

      Divers off the coast of Lanzarote come across something that stops them mid descent. Human figures standing on the seafloor, dozens of them, silent in the blue while...

      MSN New, Earth

      31 Million Acres of Farmland Disappeared, and Vertical Farms Could Be the Answer

      As our population grows, we’re going to need a lot more farms to feed the planet. Yet, in a lot of places, farming is almost impossible. And much of the land we...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What If Exoplanets Replaced Our Solar System?

      Our Solar System has remained remarkably stable for billions of years. Every planet follows a carefully balanced orbit, held together by the Sun’s gravity. But...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      The Deeper You Go Into These Planets, the Stranger They Become

      Nobody has ever been inside a planet. Not ours, not any of them. What we know comes from indirect evidence: seismic waves moving through rock, gravity measurements, and...

      Cosmos

      8 Stunning Ways Solar Eclipses Look Across the Solar System

      A total solar eclipse is one of the most breathtaking spectacles in the universe. While we experience them on Earth roughly every year and a half, these events happen in...

      HTS MSN

      Why a Human Bite Is More Dangerous Than a Dog’s

      When people think about dangerous bites, they usually imagine animals with sharp teeth and powerful jaws. A dog, a cat, or a wild predator seems like the obvious threat...

      MSN New, Humanity

      A Mass Resurrection Sounds Like a Dream Reunion, Until the Food Runs Out in Weeks

      Today, more people are alive on Earth than at any other point in human history. That sounds like an enormous number, but there is one figure that puts it into...

      HTS MSN

      Two Dolphins Pulled a 10 Year Old Girl Underwater, Then Both Attacked Simultaneously

      What was supposed to be a fun family vacation in Cancun, Mexico suddenly became a terrifying fight for survival when a 10 year old girl found herself being attacked by...

      MSN New, Humanity

      What If Aliens Are Actually Humans From the Future?

      What if you found out that you had a long-lost relative? And what if that long-lost relative was from a different planet in our galaxy? And what if this faraway planet...

      Earth

      What If Latin America Was a Single Country?

      What if I told you Latin America could have hosted one of the world’s greatest superpowers? Capable of changing the course of history in ways that only players like the...

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