earth mystery news

Boeing’s new spacesuits look like a big upgrade from NASA’s 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 27, 2017
More comfortable, less ugly, and (hopefully) just as functional

By David Aragorn
New Horizons Data From Pluto Finally Arrives, And Astronomers Are ‘Putting A Bow Around It’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 27, 2017
NASA’s New Horizons space probe has been busy the past few years. After traveling roughly 4.67 billion miles to reach the dwarf planet Pluto’s system in July of 2015, the spacecraft is now moving on to its next target, an object discovered in the Kuiper Belt by the Hubble Space Telescope in June of 2014 and dubbed 2014 MU69.

By David Aragorn
Dried-up slime could help microbes survive briny waters on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 27, 2017
Sticking together could help microbes survive in briny waters on Mars. Biofilms, colonies of cells embedded in a slimy protective coating, live longer than single cells when exposed to Mars-like brines – and even longer when they’re dried out first.

By David Aragorn
Mysterious Underwater ‘Crop Circles’ Discovered Off the Coast of Japan 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- January 27, 2017
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration less than five percent of the world’s oceans have been explored, meaning that 95% of what lies deep underwater on Earth has yet to be seen by human eyes.

By David Aragorn
New Clues To Maya Collapse Uncovered 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- January 26, 2017
Research team working in Ceibal-Petexbatun Archaeological Project and led by Takeshi Inomata of the University of Arizona, have studied both collapses of Maya civilization at Guatemala’s Maya site of Ceibal.

By David Aragorn
CIA Releases Document Talking About UFOs 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- January 26, 2017
A document straight from the CIA themselves that talks about UFOs are on their website!

By David Aragorn
NASA approves five more years for Hubble Space Telescope 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 26, 2017
Hubble will soon start seeing double.

By David Aragorn
China’s New FAST Radio Telescope Joins Hunt for Alien Civilization Orbiting Milky Way’s Strangest Star –“Beijing Astronomers Cast Doubt on the Effort”0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 26, 2017
The world’s largest radio telescope, in southwestern China, is joining an international search for extraterrestrial intelligence focused on a mysterious, flickering star that has sparked unprecedented curiosity in recent months.

By David Aragorn
Dwarf Planet Ceres Camouflaged by Asteroid Dust 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 26, 2017
The dwarf planet Ceres is cloaked in a layer of asteroid dust that disguises its true surface composition, a new study suggests.

By David Aragorn
Have We Detected Hundreds of Signals From Extraterrestrial Life?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2017
It’s a bold claim: A Canadian astronomer says he’s found not just one alien signal from a far-away world, but 234 of them.

By David Aragorn