Everything about our beautiful planet: interesting facts, scientific discoveries, and thought-provoking theories about the past and the future of Earth.
Human extinction may sound crazy, but it's not impossible if you consider the world's current situation. Occasionally, we hear colourful theories of how the world is going to end in x amount of years – some plausible while others downright wild. While most of the population pass these by with…
For most of us, the Earth’s magnetic field may just be the source of convenient trekking and map reading. But it has been proven long ago that navigation is the least significant utilization of this astronomical phenomenon. In fact, if it wasn’t for this magnetic field, there would not be…
Life is but a vapor, and the universe is vast. Its history is way past ancient. The timeline of the universe is almost unfathomable. If we take a look at this timeline of the universe, we see ourselves as an equivalent of only a few seconds. Can you imagine the…
This just in: We may have finally found evidence of terrestrial entities, invisible to the human eye. New telescope lens may have found evidence of something unidentified and moving in a rotation pattern in the night sky. Why haven’t we known about this before? Well, these beings are unobservable with…
History has taught us things about ourselves - both good and bad - so it’s nice to be able to comprehend history’s timeline. The history of the earth is awe-inspiring, why of course it is. Without history, we wouldn’t understand who we are or how we came to be. If…
Russian designer and digital illustrator Evgeny Kazantsev creates mind-blowing images depicting the future look of the world in a surprisingly realistic way. Kazantsev, who was born in 1978, currently lives in Anapa, Russia. After having worked as an industrial designer, illustrator and photographer, he began transforming his great talent into…
We have learned from our early school time that the Earth has two motions: revolution around the Sun that takes 365 days 5 hours and 48 minutes (tropical year) and the Earth’s rotation around its own axis that takes 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds (sidereal day), 24 hours…
It has been a popular movie theme in the sixties and seventies and a major subject of research for scientists over the past years. What is eventually the truth behind the Bermuda Triangle story? The Bermuda Triangle, also known as Devil's Triangle, is an area in the western part of…
Up above the earth’s surface, above the altitude at which planes fly but just short of the stratosphere (100 km high), lies an area filled with mystery. This area is called Near space. Here, scientists listen to strange sounds: crackles, whines and hisses, and try to determine their source. What…
There are questions about why the Earth behaves in a certain manner. For instance, it’s rather strange that our planet’s magnetic field has lasted for billions of years, why? Could it be that the same materials contained in the planet Mercury, also lie within the Earth’s core? Maybe in the…
