More than a million tiny earthquakes revealed in Southern California0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 19, 2019
Abundant data on little quakes can help scientists learn more about what triggers the big ones
Abundant data on little quakes can help scientists learn more about what triggers the big ones
An independent report concluded that NASA has no chance of sending humans to Mars by 2033, with the earliest such a mission could be flown being the late 2030s.
About 100 excited Chinese teenagers completed a five-hour tour of a space colony against a desolate backdrop not unlike the desert planet of Tatooine, the home world of Luke Skywalker.
Planetary researchers have long known that Earth and Mercury have metallic cores. Mercury’s core fills nearly 85% of the volume of the planet — huge compared to the other rocky planets in the Solar System. Like Earth, Mercury’s outer core is composed of liquid metal, but there have only been hints that Mercury’s innermost core is solid. Now, a team of scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, MIT, Sapienza University, Case Western Reserve University and Columbia University has found evidence that Mercury’s inner core is indeed solid and that it is very nearly the same size as Earth’s solid inner core.
Matthew Hayes says Peterborough had two reported sightings between 1950 and 1995, but the government dismissed those accounts and many others across Canada
A bright meteor was caught in many dashcam videos – in broad daylight – on April 6, 2019, over the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk. See a video compilation here.
On its final flyby of Saturn’s largest moon in 2017, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft gathered radar data revealing that the small liquid lakes in Titan’s northern hemisphere are surprisingly deep, perched atop hills and filled with methane.
According to a report in The Guardian, scientists have reconstructed the face of a dog that lived on Mainland, the largest of the Orkney Islands, some 4,500 years ago.
Not long after the Big Bang, chemistry as we know it took its first baby steps
The raw materials from a comet have been found sealed inside a pristine, primitive meteorite.