In this special project, Escape Velocity, Vox’s climate team set out to answer those questions. We looked at the places where ...

Escaping our planet’s gravitational pull is hard ... Scientists call that speed the escape velocity. A rocket needs to go that fast so that the momentum propelling it away from Earth is ...

In a world with too much noise and too little context, Vox helps you make sense of the news. We don’t flood you with ...

This is significant because that speed exceeds the escape velocity of the Milky Way. That means this hypervelocity star and its planet could be destined to escape the Milky Way and go ...