AI May Be Able to Help Explain Mystereious Radio Signals that Keep Hitting Earth
Sudden shrieks of radio waves from deep space keep slamming into radio telescopes on Earth, spattering those instruments’ detectors with confusing data. And now, astronomers are using artificial intelligence to pinpoint the source of the shrieks, in the hope of explaining what’s sending them to Earth from — researchers suspect — billions of light-years across space. Usually, these weird, unexplained … Continue reading
Asteroid Bigger than the Empire State Building Set to Scream Past Earth at 10,400mph
An asteroid larger than the Empire State Building (1,454 feet), and known as 2006 QQ23, will scream past the Earth at roughly 10,400 mph in the early hours of Saturday morning. First spotted in 2006, hence the name, the 1,870ft-diameter juggernaut will make its closest approach to Earth on Saturday at 3:23 am EDT, according to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth … Continue reading
Crashed Israeli Lunar lander Likely Left Thousands of Tardigrades on the Moon
When Israeli lunar lander Beresheet crash-landed onto the Moon in April, watched live by millions across the world, the spacecraft left a rather serious dent in the lunar surface. According to a report published Monday by American magazine Wired, however, Beresheet may have left more on the Moon than previously thought. The SpaceIL spacecraft was apparently carrying thousands of microscopic … Continue reading
Astronomers Discover a ‘Super-Earth’ 31 Light Years Away
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a large, potentially habitable world in a nearby solar system. Named GJ 357 d, the new planet has a mass approximately six times that of the Earth. “GJ 357 d is located within the outer edge of its star’s habitable zone, where it receives about the same amount of stellar energy from its star … Continue reading
Exoplanet With 3 Suns a Great Site to Search for Alien Life
A newly discovered planet with three suns is exciting scientists for its close proximity to Earth and its potential for future observation, including possible signs of extraterrestrial life. LTT 1445Ab is just 22.5 light-years away and was found using data gathered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which searches for exoplanets. The planet orbits just one of its three … Continue reading
Scientists Shocked to Discover ‘City-Killer Asteroid’ Whizzed Past Earth in Scary Near Miss
Alan Duffy was confused. On Thursday, the astronomer’s phone was suddenly flooded with calls from reporters wanting to know about a large asteroid that had just whizzed past Earth, and he couldn’t figure out “why everyone was so alarmed.” The space rock, named Asteroid 2019 OK, came hurtling toward Earth at a speed of nearly 15 miles a second, before … Continue reading
“Mind-Bending” –‘Hyper-Advanced ET May Be What We Perceive to Be Physics’
“It’s a great mind-bending twist. Perhaps hyper-advanced life isn’t just external. Perhaps it’s already all around. It is embedded in what we perceive to be physics itself, from the root behavior of particles and fields to the phenomena of complexity and emergence,” says Dr. Caleb Scharf, a research scientist at Columbia University and director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center. “What … Continue reading
Russian Scientists Want to Drill Deep Into Dark Side of the Moon to Find Out This Ancient Secret
On Saturday, people around the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first manned mission to the Moon, which took place on July 20, 1969, when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down on the Earth satellite as part of the Apollo 11 mission. Russian scientists want to figure out when exactly the Moon became visible to the Earth … Continue reading
Hubble Spies Supermassive Black Hole ‘That Shouldn’t Exist’, According to NASA
The Hubble space telescope has discovered a supermassive black hole 130 million light-years from Earth that scientists say “shouldn’t exist” if Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity are to be believed. The mysterious black hole has an “unexpected” thin disk of material furiously whirling around it. The conundrum, the space agency explains, is that according to current astronomical theories, the disk … Continue reading
Scientists Find a Way to Make Crops Grow on Mars
Growing crops on the Red Planet would undoubtedly go a long way towards building a sustainable human colony. Given its cold, harsh environment, Mars might seem like one of the last places where crops would be likely to grow, but what if there was a way to transform its soil in to something that can support life ? According to … Continue reading
