Mysterious 'Haze' Seen Above Ceres' Weird Bright Spots"You'd be forgiven for thinking that the only dwarf planet news right now is on Pluto, but Pluto isn't the only small world with interesting stuff going on..."Posted: 24 July 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: news.discovery.com Read more at news.discovery.com > |
Mystery Plasma Blobs Lurk in Deep Space, Say Scientists"We're honing in on the blobs from outer space. In the past three decades astronomers have seen dips in the radio signals from quasars and pulsars, seemingly caused by a dark object passing by..."Posted: 07 July 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: newscientist.com Read more at newscientist.com > |
Weirdly Geometric 'Dark Spots' Become Visible on Pluto"Several mysterious dark spots on the surface of Pluto have caught the attention of NASA researchers as the New Horizons probe makes its final approach to the dwarf planet..."Posted: 03 July 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: abcnews.go.com Read more at abcnews.go.com > |
'Pyramid' Discovered on Mars by Curiosity Rover"...Nasa’s Curiosity rover has captured images of what seems to be a perfectly-formed pyramid on Mars and, unsurprisingly, conspiracy theorists are excited..."Posted: 23 June 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: metro.co.uk Read more at metro.co.uk > |
New View of Pluto’s Moon Reveals Strange ‘Dark Pole’"Using new images from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, planetary scientists have discovered that Charon has a 'dark pole,' an intriguing dark region that forms a kind of anti-polar cap..."Posted: 23 June 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: sci-news.com Read more at sci-news.com > |
NASA Finds Giant ‘Pyramid’ on Ceres"Images returned from off-world by NASA regularly give UFO watchers pause, and a new photo of the dwarf planet Ceres seems set to continue that tradition, as it depicts what appears to be a massive “pyramid” on the planetoid’s surface..."Posted: 19 June 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: inquisitr.com Read more at inquisitr.com > |
Ceres Bright Spots Revealed in Best Detail Yet"Scientists are getting closer and closer - literally - to solving one of the biggest mysteries on the dwarf planet Ceres..."Posted: 10 June 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: dailymail.co.uk Read more at dailymail.co.uk > |
Giant Plasma Tubes Found in Space"Giant tubes of plasma are encircling Earth high in the atmosphere, an astronomer has found..."Posted: 02 June 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: dailymail.co.uk Read more at dailymail.co.uk > |
Does Information Create the Cosmos?"What are the basic building blocks of the cosmos? Atoms, particles, mass energy? Quantum mechanics, forces, fields? Space and time — space-time? Tiny strings with many dimensions?..."Posted: 23 May 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: space.com Read more at space.com > |
Stonehenge-Style Standing Stones Discovered on Comet 67P?"Three large Stonehenge-style boulders have been discovered on the surface of Comet 67P, baffling Rosetta scientists..."Posted: 19 May 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: ibtimes.co.uk Read more at ibtimes.co.uk > |
Universe Could Be Virtual Reality, Says NASA Scientist"Everything you have ever done or will do could simply be the product of a highly-advanced computer code..."Posted: 08 May 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: express.co.uk Read more at express.co.uk > |
Mysterious 'X-Files' Noises Captured Above Earth's Surface"For the first time in 50 years, mysterious 'X-Files' sounds have been recorded from the edge of space. A helium balloon built by a student for a NASA project captured the eerie hisses and whistles 22 miles above the Earth's surface..."Posted: 05 May 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: rt.com Read more at rt.com > |
Pluto and Charon, No Longer Just Pixels"NASA images reveal the first hints of surface features on Pluto and a new look at Ceres, and astrophysicists present a mesmerizing 3D map of the universe!..."Posted: 30 April 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: theweathernetwork.com Read more at theweathernetwork.com > |
NASA Captures New Images of Strange Bright Spots on Ceres"The Dawn spacecraft has captured amazing new images of the mystery bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres, which continue to baffle scientists..."Posted: 20 April 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: dailymail.co.uk Read more at dailymail.co.uk > |
Weird Comet-Asteroid 'Centaur' May Have Rings"Astronomers have spotted possible rings around the minor planet Chiron, suggesting that ring systems may be more common throughout the solar system than scientists had previously thought..."Posted: 19 April 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: space.com Read more at space.com > |
Scientists May Soon Solve Mystery of Dino-Killing Asteroid"About 65 million years ago, an asteroid crash supposedly wiped out all the dinosaurs on Earth. Now, scientists may soon finally solve the mystery behind this dino-killing crash..."Posted: 14 April 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: natureworldnews.com Read more at natureworldnews.com > |
Ancient Cosmic Collision Formed Moon, Scientists Say"The Earth’s single satellite, the moon, was likely formed from a collision between our home and another planet that was a near-twin to our own according to a new scientific research study..."Posted: 09 April 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: theamericanregister.com Read more at theamericanregister.com > |
Is the Universe on the Brink of Collapse?"Some scientists believe that the cosmos will eventually collapse in on itself in a 'Big Crunch' event..."Posted: 30 March 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: unexplained-mysteries.com Read more at unexplained-mysteries.com > |
Scientists Say Ancient Doomsday Asteroid Hit Australia"Researchers have uncovered two huge underground domes far beneath the surface of central Australia, caused by the impact of a huge asteroid..."Posted: 24 March 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: valuewalk.com Read more at valuewalk.com > |
NASA Invite Public to Name Pluto Landmarks"Want to see Spock Crater on Pluto, or the Nimoy Mountains on its biggest moon, Charon? Here's your chance: The scientists involved in NASA's New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet and its satellites want you to help them come up with a long list of names that can be used for all the geological features they're sure to discover during July's unprecedented flyby..."Posted: 22 March 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: nbcnews.com Read more at nbcnews.com > |
Mysterious Aurora Observed on Mars"A Nasa spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet has detected a mysterious aurora that reaches deep into the Martian atmosphere..."Posted: 19 March 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: m.bbc.co.uk Read more at m.bbc.co.uk > |
NASA's Dawn Probe Achieves Orbit Around Ceres"The US space agency's Dawn probe has gone into orbit around Ceres, the largest object in the Solar System between Mars and Jupiter..."Posted: 06 March 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
Does the Sun Have a Heart of Dark Matter?"Something is amiss in our Sun. Or, rather, something is amiss in our theories of what the Sun is and how it behaves—theories that are known collectively as the standard solar model..."Posted: 04 March 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: motherboard.vice.com Read more at motherboard.vice.com > |
Ceres Bright Spots Shrouded in Mystery"NASA scientists have seen the light. And it appears, on closer inspection, to have a 'companion'..."Posted: 27 February 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: cbc.ca Read more at cbc.ca > |
Universe May Have Had No Beginning"If a new theory turns out to be true, the universe may not have started with a bang..."Posted: 27 February 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: livescience.com Read more at livescience.com > |
Did Dark Matter Kill the Dinosaurs?"Every so often, the fossil record shows, ecological disasters wipe large numbers of species off the face of Earth. These mass extinctions occur roughly every 26 million to 30 million years—about the same interval at which our solar system passes through the plane of the Milky Way..."Posted: 22 February 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: news.sciencemag.org Read more at news.sciencemag.org > |
Alien Star Passed Through Solar System Just 70,000 Years Ago"An alien star passed through our Solar System just 70,000 years ago, astronomers have discovered. No other star is known to have approached this close to us..."Posted: 19 February 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
Mysterious Bright Spots Shine on Dwarf Planet Ceres"NASA's Dawn spacecraft will have plenty of mysteries to investigate when it begins orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres next month, as the probe's latest photos attest..."Posted: 19 February 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: space.com Read more at space.com > |
Mystery Mars Haze Baffles Scientists"A mysterious haze high above Mars has left scientists scratching their heads..."Posted: 17 February 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
Hubble Captures Smiley Face in Space"Here's an out-of-this-world space pic that's sure to raise a smile..."Posted: 10 February 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: telegraph.co.uk Read more at telegraph.co.uk > |
Is This the Face on Ceres?"The latest photos from the Dawn spacecraft of dwarf planet Ceres are the clearest yet. What is this strange feature that resembles half a face?..."Posted: 05 February 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: unearthlynews.com Read more at unearthlynews.com > |
NASA Finds Mysterious Bright Spot on Dwarf Planet Ceres"A strange, flickering white blotch found on the dwarf planet Ceres by a NASA spacecraft has scientists scratching their heads..."Posted: 25 January 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: news.yahoo.com Read more at news.yahoo.com > |
Mystery Galactic Bubble Traveling at Breakneck Speed"Giant bubbles of gas that erupted from the core of the Milky Way galaxy millions of years ago are expanding out into space at mind-blowing speeds, according to new observations that may help reveal how the strange balloon-like lobes formed..."Posted: 25 January 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: news.discovery.com Read more at news.discovery.com > |
‘Alien’ Signal is Captured by Radio Dishes for the First Time"A mystery ‘alien’ radio signal from space has been captured ‘live’ for the first time by radio dishes here on Earth – but the source is still unknown..."Posted: 21 January 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: metro.co.uk Read more at metro.co.uk > |
Meteorite is 'Hard Drive' from Space"Researchers have decoded ancient recordings from fragments of an asteroid dating back billions of years to the start of the Solar System. .."Posted: 21 January 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
Data Suggests Two Unknown Planets Could Exist Beyond Pluto"A new theory suggests our solar system could be larger than previously suspected, with at least two more planets existing in the space past Pluto..."Posted: 18 January 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: 9news.com.au Read more at 9news.com.au > |
Vanishing Spacecraft Beagle 2 Has Finally Been Found!"The missing Mars robot Beagle2 has been found on the surface of the Red Planet, apparently intact..."Posted: 16 January 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
Has Vanishing Spacecraft Beagle 2 Finally Been Found?"A media briefing is expected to shed light on the mystery of what happened to Beagle 2, the British Mars probe that vanished while attempting a Christmas Day landing on the planet in 2003..."Posted: 13 January 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: telegraph.co.uk Read more at telegraph.co.uk > |
Mystery Molecules Created by 'Something in Interstellar Space'"By analyzing the light of hundreds of thousands of celestial objects, Johns Hopkins astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have created a unique map of enigmatic molecules in our galaxy that are responsible for puzzling features in the light from stars..."Posted: 09 January 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: dailygalaxy.com Read more at dailygalaxy.com > |
Object Near Milky Way's Black Hole Stirs Scientific Debate"Astronomers may be a step closer to solving the mystery of a strange object seen orbiting the massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy..."Posted: 04 January 2015 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: huffingtonpost.com Read more at huffingtonpost.com > |
Invisible 'Shield' Found Thousands of Miles Above Earth"A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered an invisible shield some 7,200 miles above Earth that blocks so-called 'killer electrons,' which whip around the planet at near-light speed and have been known to threaten astronauts, fry satellites and degrade space systems during intense solar storms..."Posted: 26 November 2014 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: phys.org Read more at phys.org > |
We All Might Be Living in an Infinite Hologram"Quarks and leptons, the building blocks of matter, are staggeringly small. Even the largest quarks are only about an attometer (a billionth of a billionth of a meter) in diameter. But zoom in closer—a billion times more—past zeptometers and yoctometers, to where the units run out of names. Then keep going, a hundred million times smaller still, and you finally hit bottom: This is the Planck length, approximately 1.6 x 10-35 meters, believed by physicists to be the shortest possible length in the universe..."Posted: 22 November 2014 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: wired.com Read more at wired.com > |
Dark Matter Murder Mystery"The mysterious substance that makes up most of the matter in the universe may be destroying neutron stars by turning them into black holes in the center of the Milky Way, new research suggests..."Posted: 18 November 2014 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: space.com Read more at space.com > |
The Rosetta Comet is 'Singing'"As the Rosetta orbiter nears the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko 67P and prepares to fire the Philae lander at its surface, scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) have been puzzled by an unexpected phenomenon: the comet is ‘singing’..."Posted: 13 November 2014 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: independent.co.uk Read more at independent.co.uk > |
NASA Spots Mysterious Light as Bright as ALL Known Galaxies"Nasa has detected a surprising surplus of infrared light in the dark space between galaxies. Baffled astronomers say the lights is a diffuse cosmic glow as bright as all known galaxies combined. They believe it could be from orphaned stars flung out of galaxies..."Posted: 09 November 2014 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: dailymail.co.uk Read more at dailymail.co.uk > |
Passing Comet Causes 'Explosion' on Mars"An incredible video, posted to YouTube on Oct. 19, shows the atmosphere of Mars exploding as the Comet Siding Spring passes within 87,000 miles of the Red Planet..."Posted: 22 October 2014 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: examiner.com Read more at examiner.com > |
Scientists Identify Huge Rectangular Feature on the Moon"Scientists have identified a huge rectangular feature on the Moon that is buried just below the surface..."Posted: 02 October 2014 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: bbc.co.uk Read more at bbc.co.uk > |
The Water on Our Planet May Be Older than the Sun"When you take a sip from your water bottle, you just might be swallowing molecules older than the sun itself. And this new discovery won't just make you think twice about the wonders of hydration -- it actually bolsters our hopes of finding life on other planets..."Posted: 29 September 2014 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: washingtonpost.com Read more at washingtonpost.com > |
Nvidia Use Computer Simulation to Debunk Moon Hoax"We've all heard the claims: the moon landing was a hoax, done on a soundstage somewhere in Los Angeles, made to cover up the failure of the Apollo program. And anyone who buys into the hoax theory will point to a boatload of evidence — among which is a famous photo of Buzz Aldrin descending a ladder in the shadow of the lander, yet so well-lit that, some say, there must have been an artificial light source..."Posted: 22 September 2014 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: nbcnews.com Read more at nbcnews.com > |
Spacecraft Orbits Mars on Mission to Solve Climate Mystery"NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has begun orbiting Mars on a mission to study how the Red Planet’s climate changed over time from warm and wet to cold and dry..."Posted: 22 September 2014 - Category: Space Mysteries - Source: theaustralian.com.au Read more at theaustralian.com.au > |