Author: Daniel Tom

There’s trouble brewing at the Milky Way’s edge: new measurements show that a peculiar distortion of the galactic disk is moving slowly, contradicting previous reports. As yet, nobody knows which result will be correct. Some crucial details in the structure and genesis of spiral galaxies throughout the cosmos are at stake.     The Milky…

Jason Statham’s 2018 movie may be a work of fiction, but there is a real-life monster behind The Meg: the 60-foot-long prehistoric sea creature known as the megalodon. The movie paints the shark-like monster as something that still lives in the ocean, but this apex predator likely died out millions and millions of years ago – or…

An impactor—most likely an asteroid—hurtled toward Earth about two billion years ago, crashing into the planet near present-day Johannesburg, South Africa. The impactor formed Vredefort crater, what is today the biggest crater on our planet. Using updated simulation data, University of Rochester researchers discovered the impactor that formed Vredefort crater was much larger than previously…

We define a day as 86,400 seconds, or 24 hours – the time it takes for Earth to rotate once. However, the Earth doesn’t rotate perfectly uniformly. Usually, the Earth’s rotation is actually slowing down so that the length of the day increases by about 1.8 milliseconds per century, on average. This means that 600…

An Italian astronomer explains that a supermassive black hole have masses millions or billions times greater than that of our host star, and have grown to vast magnitude by engulfing matter and merging with other black holes.     In a recent TED-Ed video, called “Could the Earth be swallowed by a black hole?” Fabio…

Have you heard of Edgar Mitchell? A NASA astronaut, who was also the sixth man to step on the Moon on the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.   It was he who piloted the lunar module Antares that brought 40 kilos of lunar rocks to analyze on Earth. After retiring he founded the Institute of Noetic…

According to experts, our Sun is tilted by about 6 degrees compared to the sun’s equator. The reason behind this has remained an astronomical mystery for decades. Now, experts believe they’ve finally found an answer: Planet Nine. Elizabeth Bailey is an astrophysicist and planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Updated version…

Hermeus’ hypersonic Quarterhorse jet might just be the jet of the future, possibly retiring even Lockheed Martin’s jet of the future – the hypersonic SR-72 – before it sees the light of day. The Quarterhorse has broken new grounds and the United States Air Force is more than impressed. So much so that they’ve awarded…

LONDON, ($1=0.77 British Pounds) — In early April, the United Kingdom delivered to the Ukrainian Armed Forces a Mastiff mine-resistant ambush-protected and infantry mobility vehicle [MRAP] and a Jackal or MWMIK [Mobility Weapon-Mounted Installation Kit]. The information was published in the Army Reconnaissance and the Belgian online edition claims that the delivery has already been made.…

Unlike many other alleged CIA projects, the so-called Montauk Project is known only through third-party testimonies, as documents verifying its existence have never been revealed.   Proof for some that it is a farce, this circumstance has been used several times as a way to show that the experiment was successful and therefore was never declassified (unlike…