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Every planet in the solar system is hurtling toward Earth for an epic collision. In this special planetary battle royale, we use Space Sim to simulate six increasingly destructive cosmic crashes to see the physics behind the destruction. From being swallowed by gas giants to the formation of a brand-new […]
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We all know the Solar System has 8 planets. Well, 9 before we kicked Pluto out. But over the last decade, scientists have noticed something strange on the outskirts of the Solar System, out beyond Neptune, Pluto, even the Kuiper Belt. Beyond all those icy entities, something odd is lurking. […]
The question Enceladus is asking is whether the transition from chemistry to biology is easy or hard. Whether it is something that happens whenever conditions permit, or whether we are alone in a universe that almost got there but never quite did. A small, bright moon, five hundred kilometres wide, […]
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Join Chase and his robotic sidekick Rico on a mission to survive 24 hours on every world in our solar system, and beyond! From the scorched “Terminator Zone” of Mercury to the frozen frontier of Pluto, we are pushing the limits of human survival to see what it would really […]
A microscopic black hole created at the LHC, with a mass measured in a few teraelectronvolts, would exist for an almost impossibly short amount of time. Current predictions put its lifetime at about ten to the minus twenty-seventh of a second. That number is so small that, in that entire […]
Go to http://buyraycon.com/WHATIFOPEN to get 15% off. Thanks to Raycon for sponsoring! Something extremely big is about to happen to our galaxy. The Milky Way, and our next-door neighbour Andromeda, are heading directly for each other like two galaxy-sized freight trains on the same track. That’s right, we’re about to […]
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