Unlike Earth, which is securely orbiting the Sun, there are billions of rogue planets drifting through the Milky Way with no star to call home. These worlds were likely...
Your time has come! You’ve kicked the bucket, cashed in your chips, you’re pushing up the daisies. In other words, you’ve died. Sorry about your loss. Luckily for...
Just north of the Martian equator lies a 45 km (28 mi) wide impact crater that scientists believe may have been the site of an ancient lake. Here at Jezero Crater...
This rogue star has been traveling the Universe. And now, it’s finally entering our Solar System. But this isn’t just any regular star. It’s known as a...
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...
From a world shaped like a giant donut to a planet with the sharp edges of a perfect cube, changing the shape of Earth would dramatically alter how we live, move...
Everybody loves a good sleep, but we probably wouldn’t enjoy it as much if we had no control over when it happened. Imagine falling into a deep sleep during a...
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...
Quetzalcoatlus lived around 72 to 66 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period, when it blocked out the sun with its 12 m (40 ft) wingspan. When it landed on...
Children of the night, what music they make. That’s right, we’re talking about the nocturnal flying mammals, bats. Besides being a source of Halloween inspiration, the...
What if, someday, we decided that the usefulness of our planet had run its course, and humans needed to scour space to find somewhere new to live? But instead of...
For decades, relations between America and North Korea have run from tense highs to some interesting lows. But what happens when two superpowers decide that enough is...
This is our Universe, an ever-expanding network of stars and galaxies. And this is your brain. Don’t they look eerily similar to one another? Why are they so alike...
For decades, the Moon has symbolized exploration, scientific discovery, and national pride. Today, it has become the focus of a new competition between the United States...
Hang on because we’re about to screech to a halt. That’s right. The Earth is going to stop spinning for five seconds. How much damage would this sudden stoppage cause...
In 1044, the Chinese invented gunpowder. And we’ve been getting into trouble ever since. Fireworks are cool, nuclear warfare is not. And nuking the moon...
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She Was Trapped Between Two Parts of the Ride, and the Audience Thought It Was Part of the Act
Disneyland is famous for turning imagination into entertainment. Guests arrive expecting thrilling rides, colorful shows, and attractions designed to make them forget...
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Saturn’s Rings Are Only the Beginning, and the Planet Beneath Them Is Far More Extreme
As you approached Saturn, you would be the first human to take in the glory of its rings and its swirling atmosphere in person. Along the way, you would pass a few of...
Take Earth, the entire planet with every ocean, mountain, and city on it, and treat it as a unit of measurement. Jupiter could hold 1,321 of them. Then take Jupiter, the...
Imagine you are hiking high in the mountains of Rwanda in East Africa. You take in the beautiful sights and sounds and ready your camera phone for that perfect shot...
