earth mystery news

Scientists identify rain of molten iron on distant exoplanet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 12, 2020
Conditions on Wasp-76b in Pisces include temperatures of 2,400C and 10,000mph winds

By David Aragorn
Did alien spacecraft land in southern Colorado?0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- March 12, 2020
On a summer night in 1992, Ellen Booth saw a bright light as she looked out the window of her home west of La Veta. So bright, she had to turn her head.

By David Aragorn
Betelgeuse Isn’t Exploding: Mysterious Dimming Turns Out to Be Giant Dust Sneeze 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 12, 2020
The official verdict is in. As the red supergiant Betelgeuse once again returns to normal brightness levels, astronomers have taken the star’s temperature to identify the cause of its recent dimming.

By David Aragorn
Mountain-size asteroid will appear as a slow-moving star next month 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 12, 2020
Asteroid 1998 OR2 is the biggest space rock expected to fly past Earth this year, and even amateurs can catch it in the sky.

By David Aragorn
Astronauts growing new organs on International Space Station 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 11, 2020
Process that leads three-dimensional cultures to form in low-gravity is still not understood

By David Aragorn
Rendlesham Forest: UFO ‘sighting’ becomes legend like King Arthur 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- March 11, 2020
A new documentary about one of the most famous UFO sightings in the UK concludes that the mystery has “legend” status like Loch Ness or King Arthur.

By David Aragorn
“Cosmic Fire” –1st Evidence of a Comet Destroying Prehistoric Human Settlement 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- March 11, 2020
“Our new discoveries represent much more powerful evidence for very high temperatures that could only be associated with a cosmic impact. To help with perspective, such high temperatures would completely melt an automobile in less than a minute,” said James Kennett, a UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor of geology, who with his colleagues first reported evidence of an event in 2012 of the direct effects of a fragmented comet on a human settlement. Such intensity, he added, could only have resulted from an extremely violent, high-energy, high-velocity phenomenon, something on the order of a cosmic impact.

By David Aragorn
New type of pulsating star discovered 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 11, 2020
A star that pulsates on just one side has been discovered in the Milky Way about 1500 light years from Earth. It is the first of its kind to be found and scientists expect to find many more similar systems as technology to listen inside the beating hearts of stars improves.

By David Aragorn
Surprise! Students get an unexpected glimpse of a black hole 30,000 light-years away 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 11, 2020
They used a NASA asteroid probe to do it.

By David Aragorn
This gas-giant exoplanet has water-rich clouds. Here’s why it thrills astronomers.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 10, 2020
Three teams of astronomers have been fascinated by an alien world known as K2-18b. But what’s all the fuss about?

By David Aragorn