Solar System
02/10/2024 - 14:33
What kind of technology would we need to manufacture a new planet? Where would we find enough raw materials for our future world?
How... →
06/12/2023 - 14:30
The creation of our own solar system was a violent process. As planets were forming some crashed into each other, disturbing orbits and... →
19/05/2021 - 12:27
Disparate doomsdays — from supernovae blasts and asteroid strikes to huge volcanic eruptions and sudden climate shifts — have killed... →
08/08/2020 - 11:22
It wasn’t merely billions of years of life surviving, thriving, and filling every ecological niche possible on our planet that brought us... →
12/09/2018 - 14:11
You wouldn’t necessarily want to live in the world of The Expanse, as fantastic as it is. Yet the show still plays to the dreams of... →
18/05/2016 - 13:19
1) A Particle Accelerator Disaster
By accidentally unleashing exotic forms of matter from particle accelerators, we run the risk of... →
23/01/2016 - 14:08
Outside scientists say their calculations stack up and express a mixture of caution and excitement about the result. “I could not imagine a... →
07/06/2015 - 13:42
The multitude of planetary systems seems to be yet another fact of our cosmic inconsequence, in which our corner of the universe is just... →
10/10/2014 - 21:17
What about life on Mars? Or any other planet?
Other experts favour the idea of setting up home on firmer ground – a planet or moon –... →