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Chilling NASA Video Shows the Dramatic Increase in Near-Earth Asteroids Over Last 20 Years
Looks like a serious or even catastrophic impact really is WHEN, rather than if. via RT: A mesmerising – and alarming – new animation from NASA demonstrates just how dramatic the increase in near-Earth asteroids entering our Solar System has become over the last 20 years. The video, based on data gathered by the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, shows … Continue reading
Evidence of Liquid Water Detected of Beneath the Surface of Mars
A lake of liquid water has been detected by radar beneath the southern polar ice cap of Mars, according to a new study by Italian researchers from the Italian Space Agency, published Wednesday in the journal Science. Evidence was gathered by the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding instrument, also known as MARSIS, on the European Space Agency’s … Continue reading
‘Unprecedented’ Reversal of Wrinkles, Gray Hair and Balding Achieved in Mice
Science has made mice look good by reversing age-related wrinkles and hair loss at the genetic level. Humanity could get a similar make-over in the future. “Wrinkled skin and hair loss are hallmarks of aging. What if they could be reversed?” asked researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham – who appear to have accomplished that feat, according to … Continue reading
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
Near Earth Asteroid 2017 YE5 is an Unusual Equal Mass Binary Object
An asteroid discovered orbiting the Sun in December last year has revealed a fun surprise: it’s not one asteroid, but two, locked in their own binary orbit around a mutual centre of gravity. The object is called 2017 YE5 (as in “YE5 a surprise second asteroid, hooray!”)*, and when it was first detected on 21 December 2017, it was angled in such … Continue reading
Contents of Giant Egyptian Sarcophagus Has Been Revealed
The contents of a mysterious giant-sized coffin discovered in Alexandria have finally been revealed. Measuring a whopping 9ft long, 5ft wide and 6ft tall, the casket, which was unearthed at a building site following a preliminary inspection by a team from Egypt’s antiquities ministry, dates back around 2,000 years and is the largest sarcophagus ever discovered in the city. After … Continue reading
You Can Now Buy a Real-life ‘Iron Man’ Flight Suit
Ever dream about suiting up like the Iron Man super hero? Now you can come close to it, IF you have close to half a million dollars burning a hole in your pocket 🙂 via unexplained-mysteries: Inventor Richard Browning’s impressive flight suit is now available to purchase for a whopping $440,000. The madcap inventor and former marine raised eyebrows last … Continue reading
One of the Newly Discovered Moon’s of Jupiter Behaves Strangely
If we were to host a system-wide beauty contest among the planets and accepted natural satellites as a valid skill, Jupiter would have a pretty unfair advantage. Nothing against Earth’s beautiful Luna, but according to The Verge the number of confirmed moons around Jupiter is now up to 79, thanks to ten – or 12, depending on who’s counting and … Continue reading
Quadrillion Tons of Diamonds Discovered Beneath Earth Surface
IF you thought you knew greed before, well this should help up the ante! via unexplained-mysteries: Scientists have determined that there is 1,000 times more diamond beneath our feet than previously thought. The remarkable diamond cache was discovered thanks to seismic scans of the Earth’s interior – a process that involves using sound waves to build up a picture of … Continue reading
Astronomers Find 12 New Moons Orbiting Jupiter
We still haven’t even learned or discovered everything in our own solar system even after all these years.. amazing! via RT: Astronomers have discovered a dozen new moons orbiting Jupiter, but one could spell disaster for the others – 1km-wide “oddball” moving in the opposite direction to the other 78 objects circling the gas giant. A team led by Scott … Continue reading
