What Will Happen When You Fall Into A Black Hole?
What, exactly, would happen if you fell into a black hole? You probably expect that you’d be crushed or be…
What, exactly, would happen if you fell into a black hole? You probably expect that you’d be crushed or be…
For the past 30 years, researchers have known that the Milky Way—our home galaxy—is moving at a relative speed. Until…
Future space missions, that aim to reach Mars and beyond, will have to overcome many challenges before it can be…
Earth’s magnetic field preserved the planet’s habitability at two key points in its history, scientists have said. By developing a…
Deep space exploration could lead to the emergence of a new breed of genetically- or robotically-modified humans, a top astronomer…
EARTH VERSUS MARS. Earth is basically perfect for human beings. The distance from the sun is right, the oxygen in…
Space is big and dark, and since there is no air, no one can hear you scream as you float…
Astronomers have a theory on how the planet Uranus got flipped onto its side. They used detailed computer simulations showing…
Big Bang. Dinosaurs walked the earth before humans did. A big cloud of gas and dust floated out in the…
Dwarf planet called Goblin. A strange little planet with a colorful name is giving astronomers new evidence in the hunt…
A universe inside every black hole. Most experts agree that the universe started as an infinitely hot and dense point…
Planet Venus. In his 1954 novel Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov imagined seas…
It was a lazy, hazy, crazy day on Pluto when a spacecraft from Earth flew by at a blistering speed…
Let’s design a deep-space ufo! SPACE REQUIREMENTS: Our deep-space UFO must be large enough to house a human crew of…
Bizarre things in space. Space is big. Really big. It’s so big, in fact, that you’d actually be forgiven for…
The Curiosity rover spotted wispy cloud. New images from NASA’s Curiosity rover revealed wispy, early-season clouds streaking across the Martian…
The sun’s mysterious tilt. That is, the sun rotates on an axis that isn’t quite perpendicular to the orbits of…
Dark Matter. We know, pretty simply, how stars work. We know how much light they give off, and that’s very…
Unexplained deep space mysteries. The universe contains some much stranger, much larger, and much more terrifying mysteries than you ever…
Did the aliens accidentally kill themselves? With at least 100 billion planets in the Milky Way, you’d think at least…
Looking for life. Hundreds of planets are likely caught up the Milky Way whirlpool galaxy. From the lonely Earth we…
The TRAPPIST-1 system consist of seven planets, about the size of Earth, and can be just the right temperature to…