Have you ever imagined how long would it take to fall through the centre of the Earth, traveling from one side of our planet to the other? Physicists have long calculated the answer to that question as being 42 minutes, but now, new calculations show that the theoretical trip would actually take around 38 minutes
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If you’re the sort of person who worries about asteroids, a new map from NASA’s Near Earth Object Program is unlikely to offer much reassurance. It shows that during the 20-year period from 1994 to 2013, the Earth’s atmosphere was hit by small asteroids resulting in fireballs (bolides) on at least 556 separate occasions–or essentially
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Fact One Earth is the only planet in the Solar System to have water in its three states of matter: as a solid (ice), a liquid (sea, rain, etc.) and as a gas (clouds). Water is, of course, the most important liquid for life. Fact Two Earth is almost five billion years old, although life
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What would Earth be like if all humans suddenly disappeared? It’s a creepy thought, for sure. And according to a new video from the YouTube series Earth Unplugged (see above), the end of humanity would spell the slow demise of manmade structures and cause cats and dogs to de-evolve into creatures more akin to their
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In 2006, Pluto lost its status as a planet when other bodies in the solar system of similar or greater size were found. The decision to demote it to a ‘dwarf planet’ by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) at the time was highly contentious – and it now seems many still want its planet status
The date of Earth’s potential destruction has been set at 16 March 2880, when an asteroid hurtling through space has a possibility of striking our planet, Dailymail reports. Researchers studying the rock found that its body rotates so quickly that it should break apart, but somehow remains intact on its Earth-bound trajectory. They believe it
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the Earth and everything on it are rotating. But it’s a good thing that our planet keeps spinning, because if it suddenly stopped it would unleash a torrent of catastrophes. Just listen to what Michael Stevens has to say in this new installment of his Vsauce YouTube series. “First
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All parts of the moon, with the exception of the corners of some deep craters that are in permanent shadow, are illuminated by the sun half the time. There is, however, a far side of the moon, which Earth-based observers never get to see, and which remained one of the great mysteries of nature until
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