What if we took some of the most fascinating exoplanets ever discovered… and dropped them straight into our own Solar System? In this episode, we drag distant worlds thousands of light-years closer to home and test what would really happen if they orbited our Sun instead of their native stars. […]
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Download the Speakly app at https://speakly.app.link/Speakly and get a 60% discount if you join the annual subscription. Something is very wrong with our Sun. It’s turned into a spinning lighthouse of death. What would make the Sun so much more deadly than usual? Would there be any way life on […]
Get a free What If Top 10 book when you sign up for our newsletter: https://underknown.com/newsletter/ Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary neighborhood. Where would this planet need to orbit within the Sun’s habitable zone? How […]
Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists have discovered a few worlds that could be even better for life. Behold, KOI 5715.01. Most of the contenders on our superhabitable planet list aren’t the ones […]
Stay turned for our new exciting Saturday episode where Peter, our host, will do a real life What If challenge! One of the lucky viewers of that episode will get a chance to meet the What If team. This blue, marble-like planet looks just like Earth. But only five seconds […]
There are hundreds of billions of alien worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. And scientists have already discovered and confirmed over 5,000 of them. Small rocky worlds like Kepler-37 b are a pretty rare find. Because they’re so tiny, they’re more difficult to spot. But scientists have still managed to […]
The odds of life on Earth are like a deck of cards. It was shuffled infinitely many times, just enough to ensure that it was sorted from Ace to King at the end. Perhaps the dealer wanted it this way. Pretty thought-provoking, isn’t it? If you’d like to see more […]
