• Partial lunar eclipse and full moon rise of August 7, 2017

    On Monday, July 7, 2017, a partial lunar eclipse was visible at moonrise before the shadow shrank into the penumbral area, and eventually faded. "I went up the Jura mountain in France to have a clear view of the full moon rising over the Alps. As cumulus and…

  • Peter Mungo Jupp: Electric transmutation

    In Part 1 of this presentation, Australian archaeologist Peter Jupp begin outlining his case for the sudden fossilization of organisms on Earth. As Peter explained, many examples exist of lifeforms that were not fossilized over geologic ages but rather through the…

  • Peter Mungo Jupp: Electric fossilization

    Standard geology tells us that the Earth and the life that inhabits it has changed incrementally over eons of time for many millions of years. The processes thought to have shaped our planet’s landscape are wind and water erosion, volcanism, earthquakes, and…

  • Slow fireball recorded over the Mediterranean Sea

    This beautiful fireball overflew the western Mediterranean Sea, south of Span, at 22:18 UTC on July 25, 2017 (00:18 CET, July 26). The event lasted nearly 9 seconds. Following the analysis carried out by the SMART Project’s Principal Investigator, Professor…

  • Violent hailstorms hit Italy, covering beaches in white

    A violent hailstorm hit Italian towns of Grottammare and San Benedetto del Tronto, Marche province in central Italy on July 25, 2017, covering towns and their sandy beaches in a thick layer of ice. The storm, accompanied by heavy rain and violent wind bursts,…

  • A new multi-dimensional view of Hurricane “Matthew”

    NASA researchers now can use a combination of satellite observations to re-create multi-dimensional pictures of hurricanes and other major storms in order to study complex atmospheric interactions. In this video, they applied those techniques to Hurricane Matthew….

  • Animation of earthquakes in Oklahoma between 2004 and 2016

    Many studies have investigated the relationship between seismic activity and wastewater injection, particularly in Oklahoma where scientists recorded a 4 000% increase in the rate of earthquakes between 2008 and 2016. Now, the USGS in Oklahoma has released an…

  • Video shows violent landslide burying cars in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang

    Dashcam footage captured the moment a violent landslide suddenly struck a busy road in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. The slide left eight vehicles buried in the mud and three injured. In total, sixteen drivers and…