Meteorite “Fireball” hits and injures 1200 in Russian Urals, caught world by surprise

Feb. 15, 2013 (TSR) - With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains region Friday and exploded with...

300-million-year-old UFO tooth-wheel found in Russian city of Vladivostok

by Yulia Zamanskaya Feb. 1, 2013 (TSR) - Lighting the fire during a cold winter evening a resident of Vladivostok found a rail-shaped metal detail which was pressed in one...

Not End of the World: Near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 to miss Earth on Feb....

January 30, 2013 (TSR) - Discovered by the LaSagra observatory in southern Spain, the small asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass within about 3.5 Earth radii of the Earth's surface...

NASA: Earth safe from massive asteroid strike in 2036

Jan. 12, 2013 (TSR) - Earthlings can breathe a sigh of relief; NASA scientists have officially ruled out the possibility of the 22 million ton asteroid Apophis smashing into...

First Meteorite Linked to Martian Crust

January 3, 2012 (TSR) - After extensive analyses by a team of scientists led by Carl Agee at the University of New Mexico, researchers have identified a new class...

Scientific Facts on “Global Warming”: Changing Sun, Changing Climate?

by Dr. Spencer Weart, Physicist specializing in solar physics and geophysics Dec. 25, 2012 (TSR) - Since it is the Sun's energy that drives the weather system, scientists naturally wondered...

Five new planets discovered just 12 light-years away

by George Dvorsky, i09.com December 21, 2012 (TSR) - Another day, another mind-bending celestial discovery. It was only yesterday that we told you about Philip Gregory's claim that there are...

Voyager 1 Discovers Previously Unknown “Magnetic Highway” at the Edge of the Solar System

December 6, 2012 (TSR) - A strange new phenomenon has been discovered by the Voyager 1 space probe as it comes ever closer to crossing the heliopause, the unexplored...

Lonely ‘homeless’ planet found for the first time (VIDEO)

A young “homeless planet”, up to seven times the size of Jupiter and with no gravitational ties, has been spotted by scientists for the very first time.

Newfound ‘super-Earth’ could support life

November 9, 2012 (TSR) - Astronomers have discovered another potentially habitable planet – and it’s at least seven times the mass of Earth. Dwarf star HD 40307g hosts a...

Earth-sized planet found orbiting Alpha Centauri, our astronomical ‘backyard’

October 18, 2012 (TSR) - The faintest wobble of one of our nearest stars has revealed the presence of an planet the size of Earth, the closest yet found...

Diamond Planet Found—A “Whole New Class?”

October 16, 2012 (TSR) - The universe just got a bit richer with the discovery of an apparent diamond-rich planet orbiting a nearby star. Dubbed 55 Cancri e, the rocky...