That’s no moon. It’s a space station. The enormous, planet-killing kind, designed for only one thing — to bring order to the galaxy. It’s Star Wars’ Imperial superweapon, the Death Star. What would it take to build one just like this? Where would we assemble the biggest weapon of mass […]
This pretzel-shaped collection of galaxies is our Universe. And it’s about to collide with another universe. It might be fascinating to watch, but we should probably be worried about what’s going to happen when they crash. How would it change the physics of our Universe? Is there any chance that […]
Dive deeper and watch our interview with the co-author of the seminal paper in Nature Astronomy, MIT’s Professor Sara Seager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Z6yX8F_oA Is alien life really out there? Humanity has wondered about it for decades, and according to scientists, this might finally be a reality. Astronomers have discovered there could be […]
Is it a meteor shower? Space debris? No, it’s something much, much worse. Our nearest neighbor is a full Moon no more. The Moon exploded and splintered into millions of fragments. Enormous lunar rocks are hurtling toward Earth. Could this wipe us off the face of the planet? How could […]
Just 3,000 light-years from Earth is a black hole visible to the naked eye. Thankfully, we are a safe distance from this stellar black hole and many others like it. There are approximately 100 million of them out there in our galaxy that we know of. They are the remnants […]
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