Inside Chrysalis: This 36-mile generational starship could keep 1,000 humans alive for 250 years beyond the Solar System |

Source: Discover Magazine The proposed interstellar spacecraft, called Chrysalis, can carry 1,000 people on a one-way trip into interstellar space. It was proposed as part of the Project Hyperion Design Competition. The idea behind this spacecraft is that it could be a generational vessel capable of sustaining human life for centuries. This is different from…

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NASA’s Hubble captures asteroids colliding with each other around a nearby star, revealing violent planet formation |

Planetary systems begin in chaos. In their primitive form, many rocky and icy objects are careening through space, smashing into each other, breaking apart, and accumulating to form planets, moons, asteroids, and comets. For many decades, planetary scientists assumed this “history of violence” ended abruptly after a relatively quick passage after planets achieved stable orbits….

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Egypt has reopened the 3,400-year-old tomb of Amenhotep III after more than 20 years of restoration, letting visitors descend 46 feet into the Valley of the Kings site |

Visitors can now descend 46 feet underground into the newly reopened tomb of Amenhotep III, one of ancient Egypt’s most powerful rulers. Closed to the public for the past two decades, the 3,400-year-old site has officially been reopened just ahead of the historic debut of the Grand Egyptian Museum. A king who ruled Egypt Amenhotep…

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8 people entered a sealed glass world believing they could survive for two years. Then the oxygen began to disappear | World News

Deep in the Arizona desert near Oracle sits one of the strangest experiments ever built, a sealed, 3.14-acre glass and steel enclosure called Biosphere 2. Constructed between 1987 and 1991 at a cost of roughly $150 million, funded largely by Texas billionaire Edward Bass, it was designed to test whether humans could live inside a…

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding: 20 wild details from their multimillion-dollar New York ceremony

Every wild detail from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s MSG wedding — from arcade games and ‘JUST&T MARRIED’ to an Adam Sandler cameo Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce kept their Madison Square Garden wedding tightly controlled, with guests signing non-disclosure agreements and phones banned from the venue. A 180-foot tent was also used to shield…

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‘I got 53 out of 360 in JEE’: Student shares how he still got into Stanford, Princeton and Caltech

Justin Sato (Credits: LinkedIn) A LinkedIn post by Stanford University student Justin Sato has drawn attention for an unusual comparison. Sato revealed that he scored just 53 out of 360, or around 15%, in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), despite securing admission to three of the world’s most selective universities: Stanford University, Princeton University and…

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