earth mystery news

How scientists took the first picture of a black hole 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 11, 2019
Scientists crunched data gathered by a global network of eight radio telescope observatories

By David Aragorn
New human species unearthed in island cave 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 11, 2019
Scientists have discovered the fossil remains of an extinct species of human in a cave in the Philippines.

By David Aragorn
A Jetsons future? Assessing the role of flying cars in sustainable mobility 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 11, 2019
In the 1960s animated sitcom The Jetsons, George Jetson commutes to work in his family-size flying car, which miraculously transforms into a briefcase at the end of the trip.

By David Aragorn
Believe in Atlantis? These archaeologists want to win you back to science 0
- Ancient Archeology, Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- April 11, 2019
In February, the popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience referred to an idea made famous by some books and TV shows: that an image of the Mayan King K’inich Janaab’ Pakal, carved onto the lid of his sarcophagus when he died in 683 C.E., shows him taking off in a spaceship. Host Rogan was skeptical of the notion, which has been used to argue that extraterrestrial visitors seeded sophisticated ancient societies like the Maya. He asked what mainstream archaeologists made of it.

By David Aragorn
First ever black hole image released 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 10, 2019
Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy.

By David Aragorn
Ferrovolcanism: Liquid Iron-Spewing Volcanoes Erupted on Metallic Asteroids, Scientists Say 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 10, 2019
Metallic asteroids are the cooled cores of disrupted planetesimals. They originated early in the history of our Solar System when planets were beginning to form. University of California Santa Cruz planetary researchers Jacob Abrahams and Professor Francis Nimmo think that as the metal cooled and solidified, volcanoes spewing liquid iron could have erupted through a solid iron crust onto the surface of the metallic asteroid.

By David Aragorn
Scientists discover whole new state of matter 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 10, 2019
A new ‘chain-melted state’ makes it possible for atoms to exist as both a solid and a liquid at the same time.

By David Aragorn
Bizarre west Auckland UFO sighting terrifies couple 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- April 10, 2019
A bizarre ‘UFO’ sighting at a west Auckland has left a couple terrified.

By David Aragorn
Life could be evolving right now on nearest exoplanets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 10, 2019
Rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting our closest stars could host life, according to a new study that raises the excitement about exoplanets.

By David Aragorn
Young entrepreneur aims to send 3-D-printed rockets to space 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 9, 2019
To see Tim Ellis hunched over his laptop, alone in a room at a major space industry conference in Colorado, you can hardly imagine that he might be the next Elon Musk.

By David Aragorn