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Was Our Solar System Altered by a Rogue Star?
A team of researchers from the Max-Planck Institute and Queen’s University has used new information to test a theory that suggests a rogue star passed close enough to our solar system millions of years ago to change its configuration. The group has written a paper describing their ideas and have posted it on the arXiv preprint server. In recent years, … Continue reading
The Mysterious Giant Stone Spheres of Arctic Island
Giant natural balls in the Franz Josef archipelago that leave scientists flummoxed. The huge stone balls up to two metres in height are found on appropriately-named Champ island above the polar circle. Perfectly spherical they are scattered all over this northern uninhabited outpost. We reveal the latest pictures of this remarkable sight as the final of the FIFA World Cup … Continue reading
Epic Image of Galactic Center Created Using 64 South African Telescopes
You’re looking at the center of our galactic home, the Milky Way, as imaged by 64 radio telescopes in the South African wilderness. Scientists released this image today to inaugurate the completed MeerKAT radio telescope. But these scopes form part of an even more ambitious project: the Square Kilometer Array, a joint effort to build the world’s largest telescope, spanning … Continue reading
Game Camera Captures ‘Ghost’ in Woman’s Front Yard
Maine resident Tia Wilson captured the eerie image on a game camera she had set up in her garden. Only expecting to see photos of cats and foxes, but after going over the images, Tia was taken aback when she found one which showed a figure standing in her front yard. The photograph had been taken on Saturday night at … Continue reading
Missing Woman Swept Out to Sea Found 18 Months Later Wearing the Same Clothes
An Indonesian family has been left stunned after a relative they watched being swept out to sea turned up alive on the same beach – 18 months later. Nining Sunarsih, 53, was presumed dead by authorities when she was washed away by a large wave in West Java in January last year. But her body was never recovered and her … Continue reading
Analysis of Meteorite Suggests Mars Had Habitable Conditions 100 Million Years Before Earth
A meteorite that crashed on Earth in the Sahara Desert in 2011 is thought to have originated from Mars! via Sputniknews: Turns out that Mars’ crust formed only 20 million years after the formation of the Solar System, further suggesting it also got a 100-million-year jump on Earth in terms of habitability, according to a new study published in the … Continue reading
Fleet of UFOs Leaves and Returns to the Moon – Amateur Telescope Footage
Earth Awakens posted a video of a group of UFOs departing our moon as well as returning to and landing.. the video also includes some some other older UFO footage that was captured on NASA live feed. “Amazing footage recorded through telescope seeing UFO fleet leaving and landing on the moon, plus nasa live feed captures fleet behind space station… … Continue reading
Encryption System Found in Genetic Code
Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark have uncovered a new form of gene regulation that appears to be a form of encryption of genetic information. That idea was not lost on them as they pursued the analogy. From “Encrypted messages in biological processes”: RNA modifications can encrypt the RNA code and are responsible for a very sophisticated control of RNA function. A Danish-German research … Continue reading
Rogue Mystery Planet Crashed Into Uranus, Changing It Forever
The unknown planet that hit Uranus would have been about twice the size of Earth.. OUCH! via Science Alert: All the planets in the Solar System are more or less oriented the same as the Sun, with North and South pointed in the same direction. Not Uranus though. The blue planet’s north-south axis is tilted 98 degrees from the Sun’s … Continue reading
Mysterious Disappearances: 165 People Have Gone Missing from Cruise Ships Since 1995
Pushed, suicide, hit jobs or something more of a paranormal nature? via Daily Mail: Rebecca Coriam disappeared from a cruise ship in March 2011 On the evening of April 6 this year, John Halford packed his suitcase and left it outside the door of his cabin on the cruise liner Thomson Spirit. It was the last day of a week-long … Continue reading