earth mystery news

Nuclear Fission Reactions Are Happening at Chernobyl Again 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 11, 2021
Scientists are scrambling to neutralize the threat.

By David Aragorn
Is there a pattern to the universe?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 11, 2021
Astronomers are getting some answers to an age-old question.

By David Aragorn
The search for alien life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 10, 2021
New technologies and techniques are searching for signs of alien life as never before. What and where will that potential life be?

By David Aragorn
There’s Evidence Volcanoes Are Active on Mars, Raising Chances of Recent Habitability 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 10, 2021
Evidence seems to be mounting for a geologically and volcanically active Mars.

By David Aragorn
Action Against UFOs: Pentagon Watchdog Starts Probe Into US Defence’s Handling of Unexplained Sightings 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- May 8, 2021
The evaluation is to determine the extent to which the US Department of Defense has taken actions regarding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.

By David Aragorn
Touchdown! SpaceX successfully lands Starship rocket 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 8, 2021
SpaceX managed to land its prototype Starship rocket at its Texas base without blowing it up on Wednesday, the first time it has succeeded in doing so in five attempts.

By David Aragorn
NASA solar probe becomes fastest object ever built as it ‘touches the sun’0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 8, 2021
The Parker Solar Probe was clocked at over 330,000 miles per hour as it zipped through the sun’s outer atmosphere.

By David Aragorn
Physicists describe new type of aurora 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- May 7, 2021
For millennia, humans in the high latitudes have been enthralled by auroras—the northern and southern lights. Yet even after all that time, it appears the ethereal, dancing ribbons of light above Earth still hold some secrets.

By David Aragorn
Fossil ‘balls’ are 1 billion years old and could be Earth’s oldest known multicellular life 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- May 7, 2021
The spherical fossils came from sediments that were formerly at the bottom of a lake.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s new fleet of satellites will offer insights into the wild cards of climate change 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 7, 2021
NASA is about to announce its next generation of Earth-observing satellites. As soon as this month, it will lay out preliminary plans for a multibillion-dollar set of missions that will launch later this decade. This “Earth system observatory,” as NASA calls it, will offer insights into two long-standing wild cards of climate change—clouds and aerosols—while providing new details about the temperatures and chemistry of the planet’s changing surface. The satellite fleets also mark a revival for NASA’s earth science, which has languished over the past decade compared with exploration of Mars and other planets.

By David Aragorn