Here's what would happen if everyone on Earth jumped at the same time
If everyone on Earth jumped at the same time, we wouldn't change the Earth's orbit in space, but we could cause a lot of damage on Earth. Special thanks to astrophysicist Paul Sutter at The Ohio State...
View ArticleThis NASA probe will reach record speeds and withstand blistering...
Blazing hot temperatures. Sizzling space dust and subatomic particles flowing at supersonic speeds. Solar storms ejecting billions of tons of material as fast as 1,240 miles per second.These are just a...
View ArticleThese 9 facts about space will blow your mind
Space is so unfathomably large and so unbelievably weird, that it can sometimes be difficult to convey basic facts. For example, you can fit all of our solar system's planets in the space between the...
View ArticleHere's where Elon Musk should send his transporter when he's done with Mars
Elon Musk has long dreamt of building the Mars Colonial Transporter--a huge spacecraft capable of carrying 100 people or 100 metric tons of cargo to Mars. The freighter of the solar system, the Mars...
View ArticleA surprising discovery points to exciting new possibilities for alien life on...
A team of scientists recently reported that Mars had large lakes of liquid water much longer than previously thought. This new discovery means that microbial life had more time to form and survive —...
View ArticleNASA will soon reveal a surprising discovery about a moon of Jupiter that may...
NASA on Tuesday issued a cryptic press announcement about Europa, an ice-encrusted moon of Jupiter that likely hides twice as much warm, liquid, and potentially habitable water as Earth.The US space...
View ArticleChunks of China's ‘Heavenly Palace’ space station ‘might take out someone’s...
China’s first space station is expected to come crashing down to Earth next year, fueling concerns that Chinese space authorities have lost control of the 8.5-tonne module.The Tiangong-1 or “Heavenly...
View ArticleElon Musk is about to unveil his plan to colonize Mars with SpaceX
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk is very worried about the human race's survival on planet Earth.He's so concerned, in fact, that in 2008 he bet his last millions to keep SpaceX — his then-nascent aerospace...
View ArticleAstronomers have finally solved the mystery of these giant blobs in space
Back in 2000, astronomers discovered their first space blob billions of light-years away from Earth.It was glowing as brightly as a galaxy, and was as big as one, yet it didn't seem to be made of stars...
View ArticleAstronomers discovered what's hiding inside this rare space cloud that solves...
Astronomers have been perplexed for 15 years about Lyman-Alpha Blobs, giant clouds of shining light in space. Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, an international team of researchers...
View Article25 of the most iconic images of Earth ever taken from space
When people and robots launch into space on far-off missions, it's a quiet tradition to briefly turn back toward Earth and take a photo.These rare views of our home planet — recorded from hundreds,...
View ArticleThis amazing video shows what it's like to zoom through space on NASA's...
NASA's Juno spacecraft, which is roughly the size of a basketball court, is currently zooming around Jupiter some 600 million miles away from Earth.And it's taking some truly amazing photos.A handful...
View ArticleNASA built a crazy bouncing robot to solve one of the biggest problems with...
NASA is working on a new kind of robot to explore the universe — it's designed to explore almost any type of terrain without taking damage. NASA recently showed off one of the first prototypes, which...
View ArticleBefore Elon Musk can launch people to Mars he must solve 4 major challenges
Elon Musk doesn't let a silly thing like a rocket explosion deter him from dreaming big. Even though SpaceX's Falcon 9 is grounded after a fiery demise on September 1, the CEO will take the stage at a...
View ArticleThis award-winning video reveals the most astounding Hubble images of our...
Get ready for an epic journey through the cosmos. This film won "Best Short Film" of 2004, and it's no wonder why. The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our perspective on the number of...
View ArticleThis theory explains how there could be different dimensions of time
String theory, one of the most complex theories in the scientific community, may also be the "Theory of Everything"— a framework that explains everything in the universe. While still theoretical and...
View ArticleHubble has discovered an alien planet that orbits 2 stars at once — and...
Astronomers have spotted a planet 8,000 light-years away that orbits two stars. Several planets have been documented as revolving around two or more stars, but this is the first time one has been...
View ArticleElon Musk just unveiled a critical piece of his plan to save humanity by...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is convinced that humans must colonize Mars with a million people if humanity is to survive long term.To that effect, he almost went broke funding his aerospace company...
View ArticleWe're about to deliberately crash a $1.5 billion spacecraft into a comet
On September 30, the European Space Agency (ESA) is going to reunite two star-crossed spacecrafts as it crashes its Rosetta space probe into Comet 67P, which it’s been orbiting for about two years.Back...
View ArticleHere's what Elon Musk might reveal during his big Mars colonization speech
Tech billionaire and SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with a million people in an effort to protect humanity from certain doom.To that end, on Tuesday afternoon during a keynote talk at...
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