The scientific wonderers at What If explore the catastrophic destruction that would occur if Earth’s core suddenly exploded.

So, you have somehow exploded the planet with enough force to scatter the debris into a second asteroid belt. The volatiles like water will have all dispersed. As any terrestrial fossils are largely ...

Much depends upon the variables. What kind of explosion? What is meant by “evidence of life”? What or who is attempting to interpret any surviving evidence? Life has colonised all the niches on the ...