It’s the most wonderful time of the year, until you get the bill. With prices skyrocketing for this festive fir, it makes you wonder if it’s worth it. So...
How long would it take us to turn our natural satellite into a habitable place? How would this Earth-like Moon look? Would this even be possible? Wondering why we chose...
The night is dark and stormy at the beach. A crowd prays to the thunder in the skies. All hail the god of chaos, who sleeps no more. Cthulhu, the great, green, bringer...
Just four light-years from Earth lies the closest known exoplanet, Proxima Centauri b. It has captured imaginations because it could be one of the first exoplanets where...
Make room, earthling. We’re moving the other planets in our Solar System into our planetary neck of the woods. Would all the planets fit into this Goldilocks zone? What...
These slithering creatures can live in the smallest corners of your home and the darkest places you don’t dare visit. Well, not anymore, because today we’re...
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...
No one knows exactly what to expect if we encountered other forms of alien life. Would they talk like us? Look like us? Or would they be completely different? What if...
This is not some harmless hair. It’s volcanic glass and it could turn your life into an itchy, blistering existence. Uh oh. Looks like today’s forecast is volcanic...
From a bad hair day to a tragic natural disaster, wind can be extremely disruptive. Wind can be a formidable foe. But what if this powerful force just didn’t exist...
Imagine pulling into a drive through and seeing Woolly Rhino burgers on the menu. It might sound strange today, but thousands of years ago, our ancestors depended on...
Over the past century, astronomers have speculated about the existence of a mysterious 9th planet lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system. Although we’ve...
You start your day hearing wild news. Jupiter has just swallowed Saturn. And it doesn’t stop there. Jupiter is on its way to swallow every planet in the Solar...
Humans have been evolving for the past six million years. But something’s gone terribly wrong. And now we are evolving backward. Once this process began, how long...
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...
How would you feel if this never ended? Despite all of the masks, tests, and vaccinations, there is no guarantee that COVID-19 will ever disappear. But stick with me on...
When it comes to energy, we have a long way to go before our utility bills become a thing of the past. On the Kardashev scale we’re still a Type 0 civilization...
Technically speaking, this marine reptile wasn’t a dinosaur, although it sure swam the Earth alongside many of them. Styxosaurus lived 70 to 85 million years ago, in the...
These balls represent one of the strangest phenomena currently taking place in our Universe. Each ball symbolizes one of 100,000 galaxies — including our own...
What would happen if our planet got too close to a black hole? According to science fiction, we’d be sucked into a parallel universe, or maybe even the future. But...
