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.
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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.
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Phobos and Deimos only have two explanations, and neither one adds up.
The massive craft could carry 100 humans to Mars and revolutionize space exploration.
In a distant galaxy, a cosmic dance between two supermassive black holes emits periodic flashes of light.
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Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.
Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?
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Do you think you know the Solar System? Here’s a fact about each planet that might surprise you when you see it!
Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist’s crystal ball.
The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don’t affect humans in any way.
It could analyze a photo of the Martian surface in just five seconds. NASA scientists need 40 minutes.
We are likely to see the first humans walk on Mars this decade.
Multiple lines of evidence — physical, chemical, and biological — must converge for scientists to conclude that alien life has been found.
In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.
If there are human-sized creatures walking around on other planets, would we be able to view them directly?
Purely physical and chemical processes can deceive us into thinking that life is present, when it actually is not.
When high-anxiety situations arise in the workplace, we tend to react by fighting, fleeing, freezing, or fawning — but there’s a hidden fifth option.
Research from NASA reveals Mars’ spectacular volcanic past.
There will always be “wolf-criers” whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them.
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The classic picture of Jupiter’s great rocky core might be entirely wrong.
In 1924, Edwin Hubble found proof that the Milky Way isn’t the only galaxy in the Universe.
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
Some fascinating observations of K2-18b have come along with horrendous, speculative communications. There’s no evidence for oceans or life.
Despite the enormous mass of the Earth, simply depleting our groundwater is changing our axial tilt. Simple Newtonian physics explains why.
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.