earth mystery news

Fossil Footprints Show a Dinosaur as Big as a T. Rex Once Terrorised Australia 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- June 22, 2020
Perhaps the most iconic dinosaur is Tyrannosaurus rex, a massive predator that lived in what is now North America.

By David Aragorn
eROSITA X-Ray Telescope Captures Hot, Energetic Universe 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2020
A new all-sky image from the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) space observatory contains over one million objects, about half of which are new to astronomers.

By David Aragorn
Two Stars Going “Haywire” Captured In Stunning Hubble Image 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2020
Two stunning images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show layers of gas and dust as they eject, swirl, and interact between two nebulas known as NGC 6302 and NGC 7027.

By David Aragorn
The Launch Is Approaching for NASA’s Next Mars Rover, Perseverance 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 19, 2020
The Red Planet’s surface has been visited by eight NASA spacecraft. The ninth will be the first that includes gathering Mars samples for future return to Earth.

By David Aragorn
Cern poised to back plan for €20bn successor to Large Hadron Collider 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 19, 2020
Proposed 100km circular tunnel would be four times as big and six times as powerful as LHC

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Discover Youngest Magnetar Ever 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 19, 2020
Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have detected a hard X-ray burst, a long-lived outburst and a number of strong and short radio pulses from an infant neutron star with a magnetic field some 70 quadrillion times stronger than that of Earth. Named Swift J1818.0-1607, the object emitted X-rays about 16,000 years ago, when it was about 240 years old.

By David Aragorn
Mysterious UFO captures imaginations in Japan 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- June 19, 2020
It’s hardly the stuff of little green men, but a mysterious balloon-like object seen floating across the skies of northern Japan has captured national attention, even prompting questions to the government.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 18, 2020
Signal from 500 million light years away is the first periodic pattern of radio bursts detected

By David Aragorn
π-Earth: Newfound Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbits Its Star in 3.14 Days 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 18, 2020
Using data from NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission, the SPECULOOS telescopes and the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) on the Keck I telescope at W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers have discovered a transiting Earth-sized planet in a close-in orbit around the red dwarf EPIC 249631677.

By David Aragorn
Research Team Prints Fully Functional Human Skin with Bioprinter 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 18, 2020
A team of scientists successfully used a 3D bioprinter to generate completely functional human skin.

By David Aragorn