earth mystery news

The New Horizons probe is awake and ready for its next flyby 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 6, 2018
Hibernation season is over for NASA’s New Horizons probe.

By David Aragorn
Recent Gravitational-Wave Event Likely Created Low-Mass Black Hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 5, 2018
A new study using X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory indicates that the neutron star merger that became the gravitational wave source, GW170817, likely created the lowest mass black hole known.

By David Aragorn
NASA is sending a spacecraft to investigate the ‘bubble’ that protects our solar system 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- June 5, 2018
You map, IMAP, we all map.

By David Aragorn
Cosmic voids and galaxy clusters could upend Einstein 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 5, 2018
New mappings of hundreds of thousands of voids and galaxy clusters are providing an opportunity to test Einstein’s theory of relativity.

By David Aragorn
A New Study Could Explain Away Some Evidence for Planet Nine 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 5, 2018
A new model provides an explanation for the bizarre orbits of distant objects in the solar system that doesn’t require influences from a massive ninth planet.

By David Aragorn
Small asteroid zipped through Earth’s atmosphere Saturday 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 5, 2018
The IAU has confirmed that the asteroid originally designated ZLAF9B2 – now called 2018 LA – disintegrated at a height of 30 miles (50 km) over South Africa on Saturday.

By David Aragorn
Naked-Eye Asteroid and More Can’t-Miss Sky Events in June 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 4, 2018
Planetary pairings, a super-bright asteroid, and the astronomical start of a new season offer plenty of reasons to look up this month.

By David Aragorn
Secrets behind Pluto’s dunes revealed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 2, 2018
Scientists have discovered dunes on Pluto, and say they are likely to have been formed of methane ice grains released into its rarefied atmosphere.

By David Aragorn
Trio of genes supercharged human brain evolution 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- June 2, 2018
Three nearly identical genes could help explain how 0.5 liters of gray matter in early human ancestors became the 1.4-liter organ that has made our species so successful and distinctive.

By David Aragorn
NASA Dives Deep into the Search for Life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 2, 2018
Off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island and more than 3,000 feet beneath the ocean surface lie the warm, bubbling springs of a volcano — a deep-sea location that may hold lessons for the search for extraterrestrial life.

By David Aragorn