On:

Scientists have discovered the oldest mineral ever found on Earth, provingthat the Earth had oceans and continents just 50 million years after a giantimpact melted the entire planet. An asteroid the size of Mars broke off apiece of the Earth that became the Moon over 4 ? billion years ago. The Moonmade higher forms of life possible on Earth, since its counter-rotationslows down the high-speed winds that would normally sweep along the surface.

Analysis of a tiny zircon crystal found in the ancient and remote hills ofWestern Australia shows that it is a little less than 4 ? billion years old,over 100 million years older than the next-oldest known fragment of Earth,and that it formed only about 50 million years after the asteroid hit.
read more

On:

Shingo, a tiny farming community in Japan, claims that Jesus raised a familythere, and they say they can prove it. They call themselves Kirisuto noSato, meaning “Hometown of Christ.”

There are legends from sources like the Knights Templar of Jesus and hisfamily escaping to France after he was taken down from the cross stillalive, but the Japanese legend is unknown in the West. In this version,Jesus fled across Siberia, detoured through Alaska, and finally ended up inJapan.
read more

On:

The harsh conditions that now exist on the surface of the planet mean that any remaining traces of life will be far beneath the surface, and Martian soil is too unstable for conventional drills. Holes bored the usual way are likely to collapse. “The soil is a mixture of sand, dust and rocks cemented together with salt minerals,” says John Bridges, who studies Martian geology at the Natural History Museum in London. “For the most part, it’s like digging in a sandpit.”

Now engineers have developed a long, hot spear that can melt through Martian soil and rocks to depths where they hope to find evidence of past life on Mars.
read more

On:

In August 1977, radio astronomers in the U.S. detected what could have beena signal from intelligent life somewhere in the solar system, from the nowdismantled “Big Ear” radio telescope at Ohio University. The trouble was, itonly happened once.

This signal became known as the “Wow” signal, because the astronomer Jerry Ehman, who spotted it, was so surprised that he scribbled “Wow” on the print-out.

The signal had all the properties that astronomers were looking for as a sign of alien intelligence. Because the Ohio telescope couldn’t move, it was unable to track the signal and could only detect it for 72 seconds, as it passed across the telescope’s field of view. Although scientists tried to find it again, they were never able to.
read more