earth mystery news

Mars Was Recently Hit by a Meteorite ‘Shotgun’ Blast 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 15, 2017
A cluster of recent meteorite impacts on Mars have been found, highlighting a deadly hazard for future Mars colonists.

By David Aragorn
The Hunt For Alien Megastructures Is On 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 15, 2017
Last year, a single star found fame. It consistently made headlines and even appeared on “Saturday Night Live” and “The Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert.” The star (often referred to as Tabby’s star) is located 1,200 light-years away toward the constellation Cygnus and has been inexplicably flickering and fading by such large amounts that it cannot be easily explained by natural causes.

By David Aragorn
A Star Just Ripped Comet Halley’s Massive Cousin to Shreds 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 15, 2017
The Hubble Space Telescope has found a white dwarf star consuming a huge comet, scattering its remains throughout its atmosphere.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Just Found More Evidence of a New Type of Black Hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2017
Black holes keep getting stranger.

By David Aragorn
White-Dwarf Solar System Discovered That Mirrors Ours –“Rich in Life’s Building Blocks”0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2017
a UCLA-led team of scientists reports that it has discovered the existence of a white dwarf star whose atmosphere is rich in carbon and nitrogen, as well as in oxygen and hydrogen, the components of water.

By David Aragorn
Ice, Ice Everywhere, says New Study on Ceres 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2017
As the single-largest body in the Asteroid Belt, Ceres has long been a source of fascination to astronomers.

By David Aragorn
NASA Mystery: Scientists Baffled By Pluto’s Intense X-Ray Emissions –“No Natural Means for Emitting Them”0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 14, 2017
Something very odd is going on around Pluto.

By David Aragorn
Does An Anomaly In The Earth’s Magnetic Field Portend A Coming Pole Reversal?0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- February 13, 2017
The Earth is blanketed by a magnetic field. It’s what makes compasses point north, and protects our atmosphere from continual bombardment from space by charged particles such as protons.

By David Aragorn
Researchers Are Pretty Sure They’ve Found A New Planet In Our Solar System 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 10, 2017
Researchers are now pretty certain there’s a ninth planet in the solar system.

By David Aragorn
Japan’s troubled ‘space junk’ mission fails 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 10, 2017
An experimental Japanese mission to clear ‘space junk’ or rubbish from the Earth’s orbit has ended in failure, officials said Monday, in an embarassment for Tokyo.

By David Aragorn