WHAT IF: An Asteroid Threatened the Earth?
Every Wednesday, we’re asking a what-if question – how would our world be different if something were changed? Today’s question is from QSFer Julie Garrett: What if an asteroid was … Read more
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Bi Astronaut Sally Ride to be Featured on US Quarter
Astronaut Sally Ride will become the first out LGBT+ person to appear on US currency, as part of the new American Women Quarters Program. According to United States Mint, the … Read more
WHAT IF: A Solar Storm Destroyed the Internet?
The sun is always showering Earth with a mist of magnetized particles known as solar wind. For the most part, our planet’s magnetic shield blocks this electric wind from doing … Read more
SPACE: What Does the Inside of Mars Look Like?
Like a bruised peach sliced apart to reveal an enormous yellow pit, Mars shares its inner mysteries in the first-ever map of an alien planet’s interior — released as part … Read more
SPACE: Harvesting the Asteroids
There’s gold in them thar asteroids! Literally — asteroids have more than enough gold, plus other metals, to provide a few lifetimes’ worth of fortunes. But there are plenty of … Read more
What is the Multiverse?
Multiverse theory suggests that our universe, with all its hundreds of billions of galaxies and almost countless stars, spanning tens of billions of light-years, may not be the only one. … Read more
SPACE: Are Traversable Wormholes Possible?
Interested in scooting through a wormhole, the ultimate cheat-code through space and time? Perhaps you’d like to hop from star system to star system across the universe without breaking a … Read more
STUDY: Saturn’s Core Mighty Be Soupy (But Is It More Minestrone or Clam Chowder?)
Saturn’s rings aren’t just a beautiful adornment — scientists can use the feature to understand what’s happening deep inside the planet. By using the famous rings like a seismograph, scientists … Read more
SPACE: Is the Universe a Giant Donut?
Imagine a universe where you could point a spaceship in one direction and eventually return to where you started. If our universe were a finite donut, then such movements would … Read more
SPACE: Asteroid Bennu Totally Won’t Hit Earth in 2035. Probably.
An asteroid known as Bennu will pass within half the distance of the Earth to the Moon in the year 2135 but the probability of an impact with our planet … Read more