It starts with a signal. Faint, strange, and unlike anything humanity has ever recorded. Within hours, it escalates into an event that changes the course of history as...
After 2,250 medical trials, involving 380,000 patient volunteers, your wishes and your prayers have finally been answered: we found a cure for cancer. What if that were...
Buckle up. We’re going to take the orbit of this rock and kick it into high gear. Behold the Moon breaking its planetary speed limit. How would this event flood...
Love can make us do some pretty crazy things. When we’re in love, our brains release a cocktail of neurochemicals that not only affect our moods and our well...
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...
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...
Every 75 years, a ball of fire streaks across the sky. But that’s no fireball. It’s Halley’s Comet. And you’re about to hitch a ride on it. Get...
Are you looking for a change of scenery? Are you tired of boring old Earth? How would you like a new home away from home? Really far away from home. Like outside our...
What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars. Mars often comes to mind as a close option but...
The year is 2040. You hunker down with your fellow human survivors, listening for the sound of your enemy. The cyber-bugs have taken over. How did this happen? What...
The world you know no longer exists. Your family, friends, and neighbors are gone. Outside, horrific zombie-like creatures roam the streets. And if you breathe in their...
Every year, our planet makes one full trip around the Sun. And while that means we’re already moving at breakneck speeds, we’re about to ramp that speed up. Like, way up...
The time for talk is over. Now the biggest countries on Earth are fighting for global supremacy. What would happen if the United States started World War III? Who would...
Something incredibly strange is unfolding in our cosmic neighborhood, a powerful and unexplained gravitational force is pulling Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar...
From the gradual heating of our Sun to the slow death of the cosmos, the future of Earth and the Universe is a story of breathtaking transformations, cosmic collisions...
What if we found the way to drain all the Earth’s oceans through some mysterious portal at the bottom of the Mariana Trench? How long would it take? Years...
Dinosaurs often steal the spotlight when it comes to terrifying prehistoric creatures, but they were far from the only fearsome beasts to roam the Earth. From enormous...
No more vast, barren deserts. Because we are going to turn them all into lush, green farmlands. How would we go about bringing new life to hot deserts? How much would...
They’re big, they’re scary and they can carry cars, cows and even a couple of houses. They can range from a simple dust storm to a force that can wipe out an...
What if humanity grew to be so technologically advanced that we were able to leave our Solar System and spread across interstellar space? Would we hop from one exoplanet...
