earth mystery news

Navy pilots spotted UFOs flying at hypersonic speeds: report 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- May 31, 2019
Some US Navy pilots reported spotting UFOs while training over the East Coast in 2014 and 2015, they said in a recent New York Times report.

By David Aragorn
Fungus with a venom gene could be new mosquito killer 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 31, 2019
In the 1980s, the village of Soumousso in Burkina Faso helped launch one of the most powerful weapons against malaria: insecticide-treated bed nets, which had early field trials there and went on to save millions of lives. But as mosquitoes developed resistance to widely used insecticides, the nets lost some of their power.

By David Aragorn
Icy volcanoes on Pluto may have spewed organic-rich water 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 30, 2019
The dwarf planet has short-lived ammonia on its icy surface

By David Aragorn
Comets Might Provide Oxygen Source For Deep Space Exploration 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 30, 2019
New chemical process could open up O2 production in space.

By David Aragorn
‘Forbidden’ planet found in Neptunian Desert 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 30, 2019
Astronomers have found a planet with an atmosphere in a region that was thought to be hostile to such worlds.

By David Aragorn
UFOs have come out of the fringe and into the mainstream 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- May 30, 2019
You’d have to be living on another planet not to have heard one of the biggest news stories in recent times: After years of denial, it turns out that the US government has a secret program, researching and investigating UFOs.

By David Aragorn
Photometric observations detect 28 new variable stars in NGC 4147 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 30, 2019
Using the Devasthal optical telescope in India, astronomers have conducted photometric observations of the globular cluster NGC 4147. The observational campaign yielded the discovery of 28 new variable stars in this cluster. The findings are detailed in a paper published May 20 on the arXiv pre-print server.

By David Aragorn
Exploding stars led to humans walking on two legs, radical study suggests 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 29, 2019
Scientists say surge of radiation led to lightning causing forest fires, making adaptation vital

By David Aragorn
SpaceX’s bright Starlink satellites are upsetting astronomers 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 29, 2019
SKYGAZERS had an unusual view last week: a string of bright objects moving across the night sky, as seen in this image captured by Marco Langbroek in Leiden, the Netherlands.

By David Aragorn
New Western study investigates potential risk of Taurid meteor swarm 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 29, 2019
A new study from Western University posits proof to the possibility that an oncoming swarm of meteors – likened to the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot by some extraterrestrial experts – may indeed pose an existential risk for Earth and its inhabitants. (That’s us.)

By David Aragorn