Betelgeuse, an 8.5 million-year-old bright reddish star located in the Orion constellation, has been fainting, or getting dimmer, for some time now. Up until recently, the fading has been somewhat steady, but earlier this month scientists detected a dramatic change which prompted them to believe the red giant may be…
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Source: NASA A piping hot planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the way to additional worlds orbiting the same star, one of which is located in the star’s habitable zone. If made of rock, this planet may be around twice Earth’s size. The new worlds…
Source: Express The imposing asteroid, dubbed Asteroid FT3, will come barreling past our home planet on October 3, 2019. NASA expects the flyby to mark the first of 165 approaches between 2019 and 2116. On any one of these asteroid flybys, the risk of cataclysm is low but should the…
A whistleblower who claims to work at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) headquarters in Reston, Virginia recently revealed a new supervolcano is forming under the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, California. Here is their alarming message: I work at [the] USGS headquarters as one of the main…
Scientists are scratching their heads at the recent discovery of a large mass of unknown material located on the Moon’s largest crater. Some, however, have tried to explain the odd findings in a study titled ‘Deep Structure of the Lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin,’ which was published in the April 2019…
Source: Express An asteroid binary first spotted 20 years ago will make another close encounter with Earth this week. US space agency NASA has been tracking the brace of space rocks, dubbed KW4. And grainy footage shows the asteroid growing steadily brighter as it approaches Earth ahead of its closest…
A professor from Oxford University is claiming aliens are currently “breeding” with humans to create a new “hybrid species” that will supposedly save the planet. The Sun reports Dr. Young-hae Chi, an instructor in Korean at Oxford’s Oriental Institute, part of the prestigious university, thinks this new species will save…