The curious minds at What If investigate Earth orbiting the Sun at the speed of light, exploring the impossible physics and cosmic consequences.

The Earth is apparently halfway through its lifecycle, and this was revealed using an unlikely neighbour in space – and it ...

If executed at the scale, Musk's orbital data center plan could have devastating effects on the environment and the ...

A solar storm is a catchall term that describes any disturbance in the sun that involves the violent ejection of solar material into space. This can come in the form of coronal mass ejections, where ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a ...

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Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, a small icy body orbiting Jupiter’s neighborhood, did something astronomers rarely witness ...

In order for Jupiter to crash into the Sun, something truly extraordinary would need to happen. Its orbit would need to be ...

NASA planetary defense experts warn that up to 15,000 undetected asteroids could devastate a major city on Earth.

The Sun will die, and it’s going to be spectacular. In approximately five billion years, our star will exhaust the hydrogen ...