In January 2016, 22 year old American college student Otto Warmbier boarded a tour flight out of North Korea expecting to return home after a short New Year’s...
[dx_custom_adunit mobile_id=”RTK_v1lP”] Ready to have your mind blown? The Earth does not orbit the Sun… Technically speaking. Everything in space, Sun...
Imagine drifting through space in a place so empty that you wouldn’t see a single star, planet, or galaxy in any direction. This is the Boötes Void, one of the largest...
Human beings have existed for 300,000 years and have managed to live in many unstable environments. We’ve survived ice ages, devastating pandemics and world wars...
In 2010, a 16 year old boy named Kalief Browder was arrested in New York City after being accused of stealing a backpack. What followed would become a devastating story...
On the surface, Jacob’s Well looks like an idyllic swimming hole in Wimberley, Texas. Beneath its clear water, however, lies a dangerous network of underwater tunnels...
Deep in the frozen wilderness of eastern Siberia lies a village unlike anywhere else on Earth. Snow blankets the landscape for most of the year, the ground remains...
Imagine an enormous football stranded in the Solar System. I mean, the Earth shaped like one. What could cause our planet to change its shape so drastically? And what...
Every time you watch a thunderstorm outside your window, you’re witnessing the energy of an atomic bomb. Now imagine harvesting that raw energy and using it to...
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;...
With its huge rings of ice and dust, Saturn is one of the Solar System’s most iconic planets. It’s beautiful, really. But what’s it hiding behind those...
Climbing the world’s tallest mountains is a daring adventure. But you’re about to make an epic extraterrestrial trek on the biggest mountain in the entire Solar...
Throughout history, humanity has faced existential threats like giant asteroids and invisible viruses. Despite the danger, we always bounce back. But how much longer can...
If you happened to wander into the Nevada desert and stumbled upon the secret U.S. military base, Area 51, you’d quickly be arrested, killed, or maybe even...
People have always believed all kinds of very strange things about the world. In the absence of modern science and medicine, ideas which now seem entirely bizarre could...
In space, no one can hear you scream. But just because sound can’t travel in the vacuum of space doesn’t mean that the planets and our Sun don’t make noise. What would...
Tired of living on an overpopulated Earth? Why not move to the O’Neill Cylinder? An artificial state-of-the-art space habitat where we can control everything...
Unlike Earth, which is orbiting the Sun, there are billions of rogue planets roaming the Milky Way not bound to any host star. One of them has been spotted on the edge...
Hot air balloons have fascinated people for centuries. The first successful manned hot air balloon flight took place in France in 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers...
Imagine looking up at the night sky and learning that a black hole is racing toward Earth at nearly the speed of light. Not a giant one that swallows galaxies, but a...
