Do you find the time it takes Earth to spin around each day a little slow? Well, how about we speed things up? A lot. What would happen to the length of our day? What...
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...
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A Gamma Ray Burst Collided With a Black Hole, and the Universe Would Get Very Strange
Picture taking the single most energetic explosion the universe produces and hurling it directly at one of the most powerful gravitational objects ever discovered. On...
If you could travel back roughly 250 million years, you would not see the Earth you know today. Instead, you would arrive at the very beginning of the dinosaur story...
Wouldn’t it be great to have a truly jaw-dropping view? Like windows looking directly into space? Well, it’s time to build your very own cosmic skyscraper. What would it...
Are you religious? If you are, a huge part of your life is probably shaped by your beliefs and religious community. If you’re not, you might stare with bewilderment at...
When it comes to planets in our Solar System’s habitable zone, one world is too close to the Sun, another is too far and Earth is just right. But maybe things...
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was sailing through the Pacific Ocean when disaster struck. Japanese torpedoes slammed into the American heavy cruiser, causing...
Rise. and. shine! Get up and seize the day! You can do anything under the sun…when the sun powers everything. Your phone, your home, and all that’s in...
What would happen if you put a couple of physicists in a room with a rope, a box and a black hole? They might come up with a plan to power the Earth for centuries. Black...
Shinin-gani, the 10-legged deep-sea monster, has been hiding in dark kelp forests for 100 years, waiting for its next prey. If it catches you, it will drag you to the...
Imagine a world, where no woman could ask for an abortion. Even if she’d been sexually assaulted. Even if not having an abortion means her own life would be at...
If humans began living permanently on other planets, future generations would not look or function like us. Each planet’s unique gravity, atmosphere, temperature, and...
A century of history flashes before your eyes. Not the past, but the future. And now you know how life would unfold over the next 100 years. What changes would happen to...
Scientists at Ohio State University strapped ants into a centrifuge and slowly increased the force pulling on their bodies, waiting to see where the neck joint would...
Hidden among the millions of rocks orbiting our Sun are resources worth unimaginable amounts of money. Some estimates suggest that the minerals locked inside asteroids...
Birthday balloons falling limply to the ground. Satellites, medical scanners and TVs fading to black. And twinkling stars in the night sky disappearing one by one. All...
Imagine waking up one day to find that every human on Earth has vanished. No warning. No survivors. Cities stand exactly as they were the day before, but every street is...
Swipe Down for Full Video Story! The Solar System is home to a remarkable range of planets, from tiny rocky worlds to massive gas giants. But just how big are these...
The ocean is so enormous that it is difficult to truly understand its scale. Covering more than 71% of Earth’s surface, it contains the vast majority of all the...
