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...
Welcome to the void.Black holes remain the most mysterious and destructive force in our Universe. And when one explodes, the devastation permanently changes the...
Settling on the Moon or Mars may be all the buzz. But how about we all move to an icy dwarf planet in the middle of the Solar System? To Ceres. What would make this a...
Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing space dust floating around it. Maybe broken-off parts of the moon are raining down on Earth. You’d wonder what happened;...
Antimatter is the most potent fuel source known to humanity. And it could be the secret to faster-than-light space travel. But where in the Universe would we find...
Could there be an even better planet for us than Earth? Scientists are searching for a superhabitable world that wouldn’t just rival Earth, but be a place where life...
The modern circus was never the same after 1812; what had previously been concerned with horse tricks, musicians, and clowns started to include wild animals and began...
Swipe Down for Full Video Story About 90 million years ago, Antarctica was not the frozen desert we know today. It was a warm, swampy world filled with dense forests...
Picture an entirely ordinary evening at home, disrupted without warning by a glowing chunk of space rock tearing straight through your roof. Glass sprays across the...
A lot of horror movies start like this. An empty road and someone like you standing alone with their thumb up. After hours of waiting, a stranger pulls up at the side of...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] There are sunsets on other planets even more spectacular than the ones on Earth. What if we could see not just one...
Would we all need night vision goggles? How would it affect the ocean tides? Our seasons? Or our sleep cycles? Or would the consequences be far more drastic? As the...
Most people assume that being struck by an intense beam of radiation would be instantly fatal. For Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski, it should have been. Instead, he...
Paul Hayward’s story does not begin in a prison cell or under chains. It begins in a normal life that slowly gets pulled off course by loyalty, pressure, and bad company...
When most people think of bats, they picture small, shadowy creatures fluttering through the night sky. But what if someone told you there was a bat with a wingspan...
They can lift 5,000 times their body weight. They have armies in the thousands. And they outnumber us a million to one. But ants are tiny, right? Yeah, that’s not going...
Since the beginning of the year, more than 70 earthquakes measuring magnitude 6.0 or greater have rattled regions along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Some have been...
Welcome to the world of power and influence. Today, we look at the eight most dangerous world leaders. Which one has the strongest military? Who’s got the most...
Attention, humans. Shapeshifting alien lizards have taken control of your world. They’ve maneuvered themselves into positions of power. And they could be anyone. Where...
About 66 million years ago, Earth was struck by one of the most powerful events in its history. A massive asteroid, roughly the size of a mountain, was racing through...
