Jupiter is eleven times wider than Earth and over 300 times more massive. Beautiful from a distance, all swirling cloud bands and that famous red storm. Inside...
Somewhere under the street you live on, there is a pipe. And in this scenario, it is about to burst. The plan is simple and completely insane. Everyone on Earth flushes...
How quickly can a lion kill you? In the right circumstances it can happen in a terrifying manner. They are capable of attaining speeds of about 50 mph, leaping more than...
Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines is not the kind of place most people would associate with fame. The facility housed more than...
In 1946, a 17 year old teenager named Willie Francis became part of one of the most disturbing execution cases in American history. After being convicted of murdering a...
Brooklinn Khoury was 22 years old when a dog she had known for years suddenly attacked her without warning. She had been chatting with her cousin when the family pit...
The sky turns orange. A loud noise is coming from the distance and getting closer. You turn and see a wall of sand, rising meters (yards) above the ground, and you’re...
Our Universe was born billions of years ago. And since that time, it’s given birth to millions of galaxies, our Solar System, and who knows what else. Our Universe...
While humans celebrate reaching a century of life some creatures are just getting started. From deep ocean depths to remote islands nature has engineered incredible...
Is alien life really out there? Humanity has wondered about it for decades, and according to scientists, this might finally be a reality. Astronomers have discovered...
Gyorgy Dozsa was a soldier who became the leader of a massive peasant uprising in Hungary during the early 1500s. He had earned a reputation for bravery during wars...
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 peaceful sound of water flowing through a frozen landscape may seem harmless. But in the Arctic, that sound can represent something much more serious. It is a sign...
As the nukes dropped on every major city around the globe, everyone sought shelter, but there was nowhere to hide. In an instant, civilization as we knew it was...
Earth is perfectly balanced in space. It travels around the Sun on an elliptical path that gives us seasons without getting too close to our star. The Sun is 330,000...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Stars with a much larger mass than our Sun burn out after just a few million years; in a gigantic explosion known as...
The thought of being swallowed by a whale sounds like something from an ancient legend rather than a real possibility. Tales of people disappearing into enormous sea...
About 50 billion rogue planets are roaming the Milky Way with no host star to hold on to, some of them three times bigger than the Earth. They don’t give off any...
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...
Around 40 light years away from Earth, hidden in the constellation Pisces, there is a small alien world that has captured the attention of scientists around the world...
