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Where is Earth’s submoon?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 29, 2019
Planets orbit stars and moons orbit planets, so it was natural to ask if smaller moons could orbit larger ones

By David Aragorn
Earth’s core may have hardened just in time to save its magnetic field 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- January 29, 2019
This shift both prevented the protective magnetic field from collapsing and recharged it

By David Aragorn
UFOs, warp drives, stargates: Freedom of Information query reveals secret list of Pentagon research projects 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- January 29, 2019
These bizarre experiments and programs are the stuff of conspiracy theory. But now it’s been revealed it was true the entire time.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Have Made a Breathtaking Image Staring Deeper Into Space Than Ever Before 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 29, 2019
A few years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope did something amazing: over the course of 841 orbits and hundreds of exposures, it imaged a tiny region of space in the constellation of Fornax, peeling back the layers of time by 13 billion years, to just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Warn of Steady Increase in Asteroid Impacts on Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 29, 2019
One of the scientists involved in the study pointed out that although the number of space rocks striking earth is increasing, the probability of an asteroid strike wiping out mankind is extremely low.

By David Aragorn
Earth’s Essential Elements for Life Probably Came from Another Planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 28, 2019
Planetary researchers believe that our Moon was created more than 4.4 billion years ago in a catastrophic collision between proto-Earth and a hypothetical planet-sized body known as Theia. According to new research, our planet received the bulk of its carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and other life-essential elements from that planetary collision.

By David Aragorn
Viewpoint: Why we still underestimate the Neanderthals 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- January 26, 2019
Prof Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum, explains why some old assumptions about the intellectual capabilities of our evolutionary relatives, the Neanderthals persist today. But a body of evidence is increasingly forcing us to re-visit these old ideas.

By David Aragorn
Space in 2019 will be all about the moon, and one weird asteroid 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 26, 2019
Fifty years after Neil Armstrong’s historic step, robots from China, India, Israel, the US and elsewhere are heading back.

By David Aragorn
How realistic are China’s plans to build a research station on the Moon?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 26, 2019
The world is still celebrating the historic landing of China’s Chang’e-4 on the far side of the moon on January 3. This week, China announced its plans to follow up with three more lunar missions, laying the groundwork for a lunar base.

By David Aragorn
Skye volcanic eruption ‘changed climate’0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- January 26, 2019
A catastrophic volcanic eruption on the Isle of Skye is likely to have caused major changes in the world’s climate.

By David Aragorn

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