earth mystery news

Ghost particle travels 750 million light-years, ends up buried under the Antarctic ice 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Space
- March 8, 2021
Why so late, little neutrino?

By David Aragorn
Slime mold can store and preserve memory without brain, scientists say 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 3, 2021
Researchers in Germany discovered that a single-celled slime mold has the ability to store memory, which allows the organism to make future decisions about food search

By David Aragorn
Eerie Stars of ‘Dark Matter’ May Be Behind Largest Gravitational Wave Detection Yet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 2, 2021
On 21 May 2019, from a distance of 7 billion light-years away, our gravitational wave detectors were rocked by the most massive collision yet. From analysis of the signal, astronomers concluded that the detection was the result of two black holes smashing together, weighing in at 66 and 85 times the mass of the Sun respectively.

By David Aragorn
SpaceX Starship prototype explodes on landing in test flight mishap 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 1, 2021
SpaceX launched a prototype Starship rocket Tuesday from its Boca Chica, Texas, flight facility, successfully sending the silver booster up to an altitude of about six miles as planned. But the unpiloted test flight ended with a spectacular explosion when the rocket failed to right itself and slow down enough for a tail-first landing.

By David Aragorn
White dwarfs wear the crushed corpses of planets in their atmospheres 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 1, 2021
Astronomers are looking for the bones of dead planets inside the corpses of dead stars — and they may have just found some.

By David Aragorn
China’s Yutu 2 rover finds ‘milestone’ on far side of the moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 26, 2021
This weird elongated rock shard could have been displaced by a meteor impact.

By David Aragorn
Mysterious monolith pops up near Turkish World Heritage site 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- February 25, 2021
Turkish authorities are investigating the appearance of a mysterious monolith in southeastern Turkey

By David Aragorn
American Airlines not denying possible UFO spotting, says: ‘Talk to the FBI’0
- From Around the Web, UFO News
- February 24, 2021
Pilot said it “looked like a cruise missile type of thing”

By David Aragorn
Earth’s Second ‘Moon’ Will Take a Final Lap Before Waving Bye-Bye to Us For Good 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 5, 2021
Earth’s second moon will make a close approach to the planet next week before drifting off into space, never to be seen again.

By David Aragorn
Is there life on Mars? Not if we destroy it with poor space hygiene 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 4, 2021
As countries begin an age of Martian exploration, planetary protection advocates insist we must be careful of interplanetary contamination

By David Aragorn