You’ve seen it growing on your fruit, eating your leftovers, and maybe even hiding in your basement. Mold smells bad, it’s creepy-looking, and even if you don’t know much about it, you probably know enough to keep it as far away from your mouth as possible. But what would happen […]
Watch the discussion episode on this topic featuring world-renowned astrobiologist and President of METI (Messaging Extra-Terrestrial Life) Douglas Vakoch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fAgihenxcU Do you ever feel like you’re being watched? Not by a creepy stalker, but by aliens. Yup, it might be happening. Just like we watch animals at the zoo, aliens […]
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Imagine an entire network of flying cars zooming around 2,000 meters (6,561 feet) above our congested city streets. Your morning commute would be a lot different up there: you could travel at higher speeds and you could reach almost any remote destination. But what kinds of laws would we have […]
Neutron stars are massive gravitational monsters, and orbiting one wouldn’t end up well for our planet. But what if we took just a spoonful of it and transported it to Earth? Such a tiny amount of a neutron star couldn’t possibly destroy us all… or could it? When a star […]
Did you know that a single snake bite can kill an adult elephant in just a few hours? And if you’re not careful, snake venom can kill you in only 15 minutes. But that’s from a venomous bite. What if the venom was already collected and you took a swim […]
Take some cosmic dust and gas, then add billions and billions of planets and a whole lot of stars to the mix. Spice it all up with a handful of gravity to hold things together, and you get a galaxy. Shaken, not stirred. Some of those ingredients would get clumped […]
Planet Nine’s existence is not the first time astronomers have predicted a planet they couldn’t see. Clyde Tombaugh was looking for Planet X when he accidentally found Pluto. After Voyager 2 flew by Neptune in 1989, new calculations determined there was no Planet X. But three years ago, a disturbance […]
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Two astronomers argue that the farthest objects in the Kuiper Belt are being pushed and pulled by the gravity of Planet Nine, a giant planet orbiting over 10 times farther from the Sun than Neptune. If they find it, it’ll be the first real expansion of the Sun’s planetary album […]
