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      Cosmos

      What If You Visited the Galaxy’s Most Dangerous Planet?

      September 27, 2022
      Body

      What Exactly Happens If You Get Hospitalized With COVID-19?

      May 9, 2020
      Earth, Cosmos

      8 Facts About What Would Happen If We Poured All of Earths Water on the Sun

      August 19, 2025
      Cosmos

      What If We Discovered Alien Life on Mars?

      February 22, 2021
      Earth

      What If There Were No Wind?

      May 26, 2020
      MSN New, Earth

      Europe Is Burning: Inside the Wildfires Forcing Thousands to Flee

      Imagine watching your entire world burn to the ground in less time than it takes to make a cup of coffee. That’s what a security camera just recorded in Spain, as...

      MSN New

      How Long Is the Fall From the World’s Tallest Building?

      Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. This masterpiece in Dubai is twice the height of the U.S.’s Empire State Building. And it’s almost three...

      MSN New

      The Hidden History of the 20,000 Nazis Who Took Over New York City

      It sounds impossible today, but in the 1930s, a Nazi movement existed inside the United States. While Nazi Germany was rising in Europe, American supporters of Adolf...

      MSN New, Humanity

      X Ray Vision Becomes Real Overnight. Here’s What Happens Next

      Wouldn’t it be cool to see things through any wall and any door? How about seeing through your own skin? Or your dog? No, no, no, and no. Of all superhero powers...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      What If We Built a Giant Ring Around the Sun Big Enough for Trillions of Humans?

      The Earth may not be our home forever. Eventually, we may have to leave. What if instead of finding a potentially habitable exoplanet light-years away, we stayed in our...

      MSN New, Earth

      Dinosaurs Are Walking the Earth Again, and Here’s What It Means for Us

      Imagine waking up one morning and discovering that dinosaurs are no longer creatures trapped inside museum displays. They are alive again, walking through forests...

      Humanity, Cosmos, Earth

      The Kardashev Scale Explained: From Type 1 to Type 7

      The Kardashev Scale, first proposed by Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, measures the technological advancement of civilizations by the amount of energy they can...

      Humanity

      What If You Traveled One Billion Years Into the Future?

      If you traveled 10,000 years into the future, what would planet Earth look like? Would most of its surface be covered in volcanoes? Or would it be frozen in ice? What if...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      An Astronaut Spent 5 Seconds on Io, Jupiter’s Deadliest Moon

      Imagine stepping onto a moon where almost every direction hides a deadly hazard. That is Io, the fiery satellite orbiting Jupiter. It looks like a glowing world forged...

      HTS MSN

      He Crawled Into an 18 Inch Tunnel, and 24 Hours Later He Was Still Trapped Upside Down

      John Edward Jones had every reason to believe he would make it home that night. He was a medical student, a husband, and a father with another child on the way. Caving...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      A Gamma Ray Burst Is Headed Straight for a Black Hole, and Reality Is About to Get Extreme

      Picture a burst of energy so powerful that it can outshine entire regions of the cosmos, racing directly toward an object with gravity strong enough to trap light. A...

      MSN New, Earth

      Two Quakes Left Visible Cracks, and 3.5 Million People Live in the Path

      Two earthquakes have already cracked it. One in 1979. Another in 2011. Both left visible fractures in the wall of a dam that was built more than a century ago, and both...

      Science

      Diving Into a Black Hole: Adventure or an Abyss?

      Say one day you were exploring space looking for a new planet for humans to inhabit, but came across a black hole and decided – why not check it out? Would you...

      MSN New, Earth

      Reactor Four Is 40,000 Times More Radioactive, and Five Minutes Is All You Get

      Bleak landscapes, soldiers in gas masks and mutant creatures running through the Red Forest. Basically, a perfect place for you to spend a month. Welcome to Chernobyl...

      Cosmos

      What If There Were an Alien Civilization on Proxima b?

      Attention human. You are receiving an interstellar radio transmission. And it could be coming from one of the nearest exoplanets, Proxima Centauri b. What conditions...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      We May Have Been Wrong About Black Holes, and They Are Stranger Than We Thought

      Black holes are dense and scary. They suck up everything in their way. Their gravity is so strong it bends light and warps time. But what if I told you we might have...

      MSN New, Humanity

      What If Trump and Putin Joined Forces to Invade Europe?

      This war didn’t come out of nowhere. The signs were hiding in plain sight. Trump slams Europe with devastating tariffs, crippling economies across the continent...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      Are We About to Harness the Raw Power of a Black Hole?

      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...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      The Deeper You Go Into These Planets, the Stranger They Become

      Nobody has ever been inside a planet. Not ours, not any of them. What we know comes from indirect evidence: seismic waves moving through rock, gravity measurements, and...

      Cosmos

      What If a White Hole and Black Hole Collided?

      Black holes are one of the most devastating objects in space, sucking up everything around them. But there’s another space phenomenon that’s just as...

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