‘What is that in the Sky?’ Floridians Witness Meteor Fireball’s Close Brush with Earth
by JACLYN DIAZ via npr.org It wasn’t a bird or a plane that gave Floridians a shock late Monday night. It wasn’t even Superman. A meteor shot across the sky around 10 p.m. Monday. On social media, residents along the state’s Atlantic coast, from West Palm Beach south to Miami, shared videos on Twitter of the surprising sight. Dashcam footage … Continue reading
Small Asteroid to Pass Very Close on Monday
By Eddie Irizarry via Earthsky Small asteroid 2021 GW4 will pass extremely close to Earth on Monday, April 12, 2021. It’ll pass just 12,313 miles (19,816 km) from Earth’s surface, or about 5% the Earth-moon distance. Amateur astronomers using telescopes can see it passing the galaxy Messier 95 on the night of Sunday, April 11. A recently detected space rock … Continue reading
Asteroid to Pass between Earth and the Moon, Football Field-Sized Space Rock to Follow
via RT Headline Image: © by urikyo33 from Pixabay As NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe bids farewell to the asteroid Bennu, closer to home the space agency has issued warnings about two other space rocks set to come a little close for comfort to the Earth. On April 10, the asteroid 2021 GT3, measuring 19 meters across (roughly the length of a … Continue reading
Alien AI ‘Could be Billions of Years Old’
Resistance is futile? via Unexplained-Mysteries: Image Credit: CC BY-2.0 Marcin Wichary A NASA philosopher maintains that an ancient extraterrestrial artificial intelligence might already exist. When we think of the possibilities of life elsewhere in the universe, we tend to imagine civilizations not unlike our own made up of humanoid biological beings like something out of Star Trek. But what if … Continue reading
Eerie Rumbles are Coming from Mars’ Interior
via Unexplained-Mysteries NASA’s Insight lander has recently picked up the telltale signs of seismic activity on the Red Planet. The space probe, which landed on Mars back in November 2018, uses a special dome-shaped device deployed on the planet’s surface to listen out for signs of seismic activity. Known as the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), the device is … Continue reading
All Clear Given by NASA: Earth Safe from this Dangerous Asteroid for 100 years
By MARCIA DUNN Associate Press via Yahoonews Whew, now here’s some good cosmic news: NASA has given Earth the all clear for the next century from a particularly menacing asteroid. The space agency announced this week that new telescope observations have ruled out any chance of Apophis smacking Earth in 2068. That’s the same 1,100-foot (340-meter) space rock that was … Continue reading
Record Number of Asteroids Whizzed Past Earth in 2020
By Alexandra Witze Via Nature Headline Image Credit: Detlev van Ravensway/SPL A 340-metre-wide space rock named Apophis whizzed safely past Earth on 6 March. The next time it returns, in 2029, won’t be so uneventful: Apophis will come within 40,000 kilometres of the planet, skimming just above the region where some high-flying satellites orbit. It will be the first time … Continue reading
Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station
By Jacinta Bowler via Science Alert Headline Image: Methylobacterium jeotgali. (Aslam et al, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2007) The menagerie of bacterial and fungal species living among us is ever growing – and this is no exception in low-gravity environments, such as the International Space Station (ISS). Researchers from the United States and India working with NASA have now … Continue reading
Some Earth Organisms Could Temporarily Survive on Mars, Says NASA
I always wondered about this. I don’t think we (scientists) really have any idea how long some organisms could actually survive on Mars, the moon or any other planets, but they claim it would be temporary. by Mariella Moon via Yahoo News We could unknowingly contaminate Mars and any other world we’re exploring in the future with microorganisms from our … Continue reading
The Moon Is Not What You Think – What They Saw Will Shock You
Could the moon be a hollow-bodied construct that contains a hidden message encoding the deeper mysteries of our universe and life on Earth? Researchers examine evidence that suggests that our moon is of artificial origin, intentionally placed in exact orbit by advanced civilizations in ancient times. With recent discoveries from NASA and the European Space Agency, the lunar enigmas have … Continue reading
