An earthquake can start without any warning. One second everything feels normal, and the next a deep rumble shakes the ground. Dishes crash, objects fall from shelves...
When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But surprisingly, Venus might actually be a...
Alan Catterall arrived at work expecting another ordinary day at Pyranha Mouldings, a kayak manufacturing company in Cheshire, England. Instead, a routine cleaning task...
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...
Plastic surrounds us in ways most of us don’t even notice. From the toothbrushes we use in the morning to the water bottles in our hands, plastic is everywhere. But have...
Imagine shrinking Earth to the size of a small ball to reveal just how vast the Universe is. If it were 12 centimeters wide, Jupiter would stretch over a meter across...
635 light-years from where you are sitting, way out in outer space, lies a planet. The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its...
Scroll down to watch the video. It’s the largest star that we’ve ever discovered: UY Scuti. And if it were to replace our Sun, it would change a lot more...
On Christmas Day in 2007, while families around the world were celebrating the holidays, a terrifying event was unfolding at the San Francisco Zoo. Around 5 p.m., 17...
Aliens?! Enchiladas?! What is this world coming to? Or should I say, what is coming to this world? First of all, yes, it’s pronounced Enceladus (EN-CELL-A-DUSS)...
Eight legs, eight eyes, sharp fangs, and bullet-proof webs. They’re hairy, they’re scary, and now, they’re human-sized. As many as 427 million people...
Scroll down to watch the video. Imagine the Mediterranean Sea is disappearing! Old shipwrecks are rearing their ugly heads as the water drains around them, and...
Thirty centimeters. That is the width of the walkway in some places. Not a path. Not a ledge. A row of wooden boards bolted to the face of a vertical cliff, with nothing...
Rodents make up 75 percent of all animals used in scientific testing. They breed easily, and their physiology and genes overlap enough with ours to stand in for us. Take...
Some people alive today have implants that let them perceive sound. Others carry devices that let them sense changes in atmospheric pressure. Now push that forward a few...
Swipe Down for Full Video Story The world of Pandora captured audiences with its floating mountains, glowing forests, and breathtaking alien landscapes. In James...
Swipe Down for Full Video Story We’ve thrown a lot of disasters at Earth over the years: from asteroids and aliens, to the Sun’s death. But hey, the Universe is a...
It may sound like science fiction, but imagining a battle between a gas giant and a black hole helps us understand just how fragile our Solar System really is. Such a...
We’re trained to love summer. From the moment you start school, the year splits neatly into term time and those long empty months, and even after you’re...
You’re curled up at home, safe and dry, while it pours outside. It’s been an unusually rainy season and, unfortunately, the local dam wasn’t designed very well. In fact...
