Ancient Meteorite Stands Between Town and Water Supply: The remains of a 1.5 mile-wide, 10 billion-ton meteorite are causing problems for a small Iowa town 74 million years after it crashed onto the Earth’s surface at 45,000 miles per hour. The Des Moines Register reports that the 1,600 residents of Manson, Iowa, are struggling to […]

18-Mile Long Crack Seen by NASA in Antarctic Glacier: Antarctica is so vast that the pictures give you no sense of scale. The pencil-thin line across the satellite image of Pine Island Glacier (above) is actually more than 18 miles long, 800 feet across in places, and 180 feet deep. And it’s growing. In the […]

Snowy Owls Soar South from Arctic in Rare Mass Migration: Rising numbers of Snowy Owls from the Arctic are flying into the lower 48 states this winter–a mass migration that a leading owl researcher called “unbelievable.”  Thousands of the snow-white birds have been seen from Idaho and Montana to Missouri and Oklahoma and even to […]

Divers Find Large, Unexplained Object at Bottom of Baltic Sea: A team of salvage divers discovered an unexplained object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea near Sweden.  Sonar readings show the mysterious object to be about 60 meters across, or about the size of a jumbo jet.  And whatever the object is, it is […]

Russian scientists have reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake in Antarctica that had been hidden under miles of ice for 20 million years, potentially holding life from the distant past and a clue to the search for life on other planets.  Scientists hope to find primeval bacteria that could expand the human knowledge […]