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Our Sun May Have Started Its Life with a Binary Companion
Headline caption: Artist’s conception of a potential solar companion, which theorists believe was developed in the Sun’s birth cluster and later lost. If proven, the solar companion theory would provide additional credence to theories that the Oort cloud formed as we see it today, and that Planet Nine was captured rather than formed in place. Cambridge, MA – A new … Continue reading
Unusual Triple Comet Flying Past the Sun Recorded by NASA Satellite
A solar satellite launched by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) spotted a cluster of three comets flying close to the sun. A scientist who analyzed the images stated that the object did not come from a well-known family of comets. The comet cluster was spotted by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a robotic satellite launched by NASA … Continue reading
What Will Happen When the Universe ‘Dies’ ?
The Big Bang may have brought the universe into existence, but will a similar event bring about its demise? There is so much we don’t understand about the universe and the nature of existence that even attempting to comprehend how anything actually exists at all is enough to make your head hurt. As things stand, most scientists adhere to the … Continue reading
NASA Warns of Upcoming Close Shave with Asteroid as Doomsday Preacher Predicts ‘Apocalyptic Fireball’
“”It’s been confirmed, incoming fireballs, apocalyptic, headed in our direction,” the self-proclaimed End Times prophesier forecast in a recent video on his popular YouTube account.” Two asteroids are set to dart past Earth in the coming days, while NASA has warned about an impending close shave with an airplane-sized space rock. A doomsday preacher has also issued a dire warning … Continue reading
Nested ‘DNA’ of Ancestor that Mated with Ancient Humans Discovered
Stephanie Pappas Live Science Today’s humans carry the genes of an ancient, unknown ancestor, left there by hominin species intermingling perhaps a million years ago. The ancestor may have been Homo erectus, but no one knows for sure — the genome of that extinct species of human has never been sequenced, said Adam Siepel, a computational biologist at Cold Spring … Continue reading
Some Stars Might Host up to Seven Habitable Planets
Multiple Earth-like worlds might exist in some solar systems! via unexplained-mysteries: Other stars may be able to host more than our own solar system’s solitary habitable world, a new study suggests. As things stand, the Earth is the only known example of a habitable world in the entire universe – even the other planets in our solar system, as far … Continue reading
Football Field Sized Asteroid Passes Safely but More to Come, NASA Warns
NASA is sounding the alarm over several incoming space rocks, one of which passed within a third of the distance between the Earth and the moon on Tuesday. Asteroid 2009 PQ1, measuring 110 meters in diameter, came within 4.1 million kilometers of Earth. This will be followed just days later by asteroid 2020 OL4 (diameter: 37m) at a distance of … Continue reading
Civilization On Course for ‘Irreversible Collapse’
Two theoretical physicists believe that there is a 90% chance that civilization will collapse within 40 years. The troubling prediction comes courtesy of Dr Gerardo Aquino from the Alan Turing Institute in London and Professor Mauro Bologna from the University of Tarapaca, Chile who maintain that the key contributing factor is the ongoing destruction of the world’s forests. According to … Continue reading
100m-Year-Old Sea Microbes Revived by Scientists
Scientists have successfully revived microbes that had lain dormant at the bottom of the sea since the age of the dinosaurs, allowing the organisms to eat and even multiply after eons in the deep. Their research sheds light on the remarkable survival power of some of Earth’s most primitive species, which can exist for tens of millions of years with … Continue reading
Mammalian Cells Could Struggle to Fight off Space Germs
The immune systems of mammals — including humans — might struggle to detect and respond to germs from other planets, new research suggests. Microorganisms (such as bacteria and viruses) could exist beyond Earth, and there are plans to search for signs of them on Mars and some of Saturn and Jupiter’s moons. Such organisms might be based on different amino … Continue reading
