Search Results

The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don’t affect humans in any way.

Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?

These startups, space agencies, and aerospace giants are building humanity’s next off-world homes.

Water on Mars is key for human survival on the Red Planet, not just for drinking but for growing food and making fuel and oxygen.

As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.

Recent research suggests that Earth’s magnetic field bounced back just as complex life was starting to emerge on our planet.

The closest known star that will soon undergo a core-collapse supernova is Betelgeuse, just 640 light-years away. Here’s what we’ll observe.

Some fascinating observations of K2-18b have come along with horrendous, speculative communications. There’s no evidence for oceans or life.

In our Solar System, even the two brightest planets frequently align in our skies. But only rarely is it spectacularly visible from Earth.

Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist’s crystal ball.

A.J. Jacobs looks back at what he learned about religion, himself, and modern American culture during “The Year of Living Biblically.”

The classic picture of Jupiter’s great rocky core might be entirely wrong.

Despite the enormous mass of the Earth, simply depleting our groundwater is changing our axial tilt. Simple Newtonian physics explains why.

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

What lies in store for humanity? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains how different life will be for your descendants—and maybe your future self, if the timing works out.

Mike Bechtel, chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP, joins Big Think for a wide-ranging look at what’s next — and why.

In this preview from “The Saucerian,” author Gabriel Mckee explains how the combination of fantastical stories and obscure bureaucracy launched the “space age of the imagination.”

Space missions in 2022 will include massive rockets and asteroid collisions. This is also the year space tourism starts to hit its stride.

Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that’s visible from Earth, and then some!

Fears of celestial collisions — and calculations of their likelihood — go back to the very origins of modern science itself.

There will always be “wolf-criers” whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them.

The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.

Do you think you know the Solar System? Here’s a fact about each planet that might surprise you when you see it!

Viewing Uranus’s largest moons with Hubble, astronomers hoped to find darkening on the trailing side. They found the exact opposite instead.

The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here’s why terraforming our lunar neighbor is so appealing.

Nobody actually knows what will come of AI. But we can console ourselves with the knowledge that nobody has ever really known anything about the future.

The massive craft could carry 100 humans to Mars and revolutionize space exploration.

Humanity is never fully in control of its creations. This lesson from Mary Shelley has remained relevant for over 200 years.

It is humanity’s biggest step yet into the Solar System.

The far side of the Moon is incredibly different from the Earth-facing side. 63 years later, we know why the Moon’s faces are not alike.