A new study is revealing that a reversal in the Earth's magnetic poles 42,000 to 41,000 years ago may have led to environmental crises that resulted in mass extinctions. The period is called the Laschamps excursion and the research used precise…
Scientists have found evidence of an asteroid impact crater beneath the north Atlantic ocean. The 8.5km-wide crater is buried 300-400m below the seabed 400km off the coast of Guinea, west Africa. The team believes the crater was caused by a 400m…
Geologists and the general public are both amazed by the discovery of a totally new mineral this week by the precious stone mining business Shefa Yamim in northern Israel. Image description : Carmeltazite, often known as " Carmel Sapphire ,…
At least a dozen planets outside our solar system may be more suitable for life than Earth. These worlds are somewhat older, slightly wetter, slightly warmer, and slightly larger than Earth, according to research published Sept. 18 in the journa…
On July 7th, a massive fireball was seen shooting over the sky of New Zealand; it was probably a piece of a meteor that crashed into the water. A meteor was spotted in the sky over Cook Strait, which separates New Zealand’s North Island and Sout…
Could a planet like Earth have a mind of its own if it can be " alive " like that? Recently, a team of academics conducted a thought experiment that is both fascinating and genuinely mind-blowing, in which they addressed the subject …
Planet Earth has recorded its shortest day since scientists began using atomic clocks to measure the speed of its rotation. Earth’s time systems can prove fairly baffling for anyone who doesn’t have a PhD in Horology, as we learnt the hard way …
We all see mesmerizing views when flying, but some are more exceptional than others. A pilot flying over the Atlantic noticed one of these, according to a post shared on Reddit. The caption says, " Mysterious red glow seen over the Atlantic, p…
This photo from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows the Earth as seen from the surface of Mars, shining brighter than any star in the Martian night sky. Earth is the bright point of light a little left of the image’s center and our moon can be seen just …
A massive sunspot that has doubled in size in less than 24 hours is currently facing Earth, which means it is expected to unleash a solar flare in our direction. Sunspots are dark regions on the sun's surface that are accompanied by powerful…
Black holes are the gluttons of the cosmos, devouring everything that veers too close — including light itself. Now, an international team of researchers say they have discovered a supermassive black hole that gobbles up the equivalent of one Eart…
On Monday, June 13, a three-hour-long solar flare erupted from the Sun, releasing a tremendous quantity of charged particles in the form of solar radiation. As a consequence, it is expected that a geomagnetic storm and a radio blackout will hi…
This is the incredible image an amateur photographer created when he took a photo of a sunset and captured the light in a shape of an angel. Stuart Murray, 56, took out his smartphone to take a snap as he watched the sun go down over the coastli…
In and of itself, the cosmos is a conundrum. From the singularity of our own solar system to dark matter. This last one is perhaps one of the Universe’s most fascinating and unresolved mysteries. It is undetectable. It is undetectable. It is not au…
This image of the Lunar Module was captured by Michael Collins. It contains Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin and of course the Earth in the Background of the picture. This image was taken in the course of the Apollo 11 mission, and it marks him (Mich…
Data from two satellites reveal a rather stunning cloudless view of Earth, complete with an impressive 80 trillion pixels. The mosaic of images was taken by the Sentinel-2 satellites , operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), of which there …
The Sun, Earth, and the entire solar system also are in motion, orbiting the center of the Milky Way at a blazing 140 miles a second. Even at this great speed, though, our planetary neighborhood still takes about 200 million years to make one c…
With more and more discoveries with each passing year, the chance of life originating from outer space has grown. Along with that, the panspermia hypothesis has risen in plausibility over the years which suggests that maybe humans could just be anc…
