earth mystery news

Space is the final frontier for archaeologists 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 27, 2021
The boot prints left by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong are a tangible legacy of one of humanity’s greatest achievements — putting a man on the moon.

By David Aragorn
The Big Pentagon Internet Mystery Now Partially Solved 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- April 26, 2021
After weeks of wonder by the networking community, the Pentagon has now provided a very terse explanation for why it hired a shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank to manage a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet that it owns.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 26, 2021
Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed the flight succeeded after receiving data from the helicopter via NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at 6:46 a.m. EDT (3:46 a.m. PDT).

By David Aragorn
Defense Department confirms leaked video of unidentified aerial phenomena is real 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- April 26, 2021
The Defense Department has confirmed that leaked photos and video of “unidentified aerial phenomena” taken in 2019 are indeed legitimate images of unexplained objects.

By David Aragorn
Scientists brought ‘Mars spiders’ to Earth—here’s how 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 15, 2021
Researchers used Halloween SFX to simulate the Martian south pole in springtime.

By David Aragorn
More than 5,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall to Earth each year 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 15, 2021
Every year, our planet encounters dust from comets and asteroids. These interplanetary dust particles pass through our atmosphere and give rise to shooting stars. Some of them reach the ground in the form of micrometeorites. An international program conducted for nearly 20 years by scientists from the CNRS, the Université Paris-Saclay and the National museum of natural history with the support of the French polar institute, has determined that 5,200 tons per year of these micrometeorites reach the ground. The study will be available in the journal Earth & Planetary Science Letters from April 15.

By David Aragorn
It’s still unclear what dark matter is, but now we know what it isn’t 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 15, 2021
Physicists have concluded that some masses of boson particles — members of the things-that-could-explain-dark-matter club — don’t actually exist, meaning the parameters for locating the presumably vast but hypothetical material just became more refined.

By David Aragorn
A record-breaking, oxygen-starved galaxy may be full of gigantic stars’ shrapnel 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 14, 2021
The pristine galaxy provides a glimpse at conditions that prevailed in the early universe

By David Aragorn
US Navy Acknowledges Pyramid-Shaped UFO Captured with Night Vision Camera 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- April 14, 2021
There have been many pyramid-shaped UFOs in science fiction films, like the one you see above (right), but this is the first time that the US Navy confirmed a sighting made with a night vision camera.

By David Aragorn
Pentagon confirms UFO images over US warship are real – as Wales star Gareth Bale says he’s seen one 0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- April 14, 2021
‘There is definitely, 100 per cent aliens. 100 per cent. There’s been video footage released’ says Welsh winger

By David Aragorn