Phobos-Grunt probe is doomed to fall Chances of reviving an unresponsive Russian space probe headed for a moon of the Red Planet are now virtually zero. Hopelessly off-course, it is apparently doomed to fall back to Earth, though it is not clear when or where. Fixing the Phobos-Grunt and putting it back on track is now impossible. The probe will not be able to carry out its mission – to land on Phobos... 

The Herschel Observatory discovered in an interesting area close to a star; a finding that may help explain the origin of water on Earth. The origin of the planet’s water has been the subject of long debate among scientists. Currently, it is believed that it came to Earth via impacts with comets and asteroids during the formation of the Solar System. An article published on Thursday (20th) in... 

U.S Government Warning: Strong Solar Storm Reaching Earth Which Can Devastate The Planet At Any Moment. Strong solar storm reaching Earth; NOAA experts available; Katy Human from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), September 26, 2011. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center – the nation’s official source of warnings and alerts about space weather and its impacts on... 

As the coldest summer in Britain for 18 years draws to a close, a new study by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has again pointed to the conclusion that the Sun’s cosmic rays, and their role in cloud formation, rather than man-made emissions, are responsible for the Earth’s changing temperatures. Climate realist and author Lawrence Solomon explains the results of CERN’s... 

Its body would have been just a few cm in length. Its feet indicate it often scurried about in the trees. A small, 160-million-year-old Chinese fossil has something big to say about the emergence of mammals on Earth. The shrew-like creature is the earliest known example of an animal whose kind evolved to provide nourishment to their unborn through a placenta. Its features clearly set it apart from... 

Astronomers and other outer space experts are speaking out on a comet expected to make a close call with colliding into Earth later this year. The consequences could be dire, so why are so many people unaware of it? “I think it’s worth a raised eyebrow” says author Brooks Agnew. He’s done a lot of research on Elenin and tells RT that there are some rather strange coincidences regarding the... 

Mars’s Icy North Pole There’s a good explanation for why life may exist on Mars. In the Earth’s past there was powerful volcanic activity which could have easily spewed dirt and rocks containing microbes into outer space which not only could have eventually reached Mars but also ended up traveling in orbit through space that we now know as meteors. A Newsweek article of September... 

China and India alone will account for 2.5+ billion of the total 7 billion world population, which is more than a third. The second largest population is found in Africa. Europeans account for less than 1 billion in all their countries combined and their population is in free fall, close to total extinction in the next 100 years. Though the birth rate in the U.S. has dropped for a third year in the... 

The Earth will enter a new 'Little Ice Age' due to low sunspots. American researchers say sun spot activity will start to recede in the next two years leading the Earth towards a new ‘Little Ice Age’ in the coming years. Three separate studies conducted by scientists of the American Astronomical Society’s solar physics division say solar activity will start to recede after... 

Scientists at Brown University found super-tiny melt inclusions in lunar soil samples that opened the door for measurements that revealed the magnitude of water inside the moon. There is water inside the moon so much, in fact, that in some places it rivals the amount of water found within Earth. The finding from a scientific team including Brown University comes from the first-ever measurements of... 

A Korean satellite has caught an eye-catching view of an island in Mexico for a deep, rocky hole and waters so dark that they earned it the name Holbox―a name that means “black hole.” The photo was taken by the Korea Multi-purpose Satellite 2, or Kompsat-2, and show Holbox Island and its Yalahou lagoon at the northeast corner of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The photo was revealed in the science... 

Alien home? The black spots represent 1,235 planets orbiting their suns. As a point of reference, the lone planet on the right below the top row represents our sun, with Earth and Jupiter as tiny black silhouettes. If aliens exist, these are what their planets look like, according to NASA. Astronomers at the U.S. space department have spent the last two years scouring the Milky Way for Earth-like planets... 

A chilling report prepared for President Medvedev by Minister Serdyukov of the Russian Defense Ministry on the building of an additional 5,000 underground ‘bomb’ shelters in Moscow warns that even though progress is being made, the appearance of the new Comet Elenin [photo right] in our Solar System means “additional resources” will have to be added “immediately” as the 2012 timeline for... 

A NASA image of an erupting solar flare. A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days. A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days, NASA said. The massive sunspot,... 

Superstorms can also cause certain societies, cultures or whole countries to collapse. Others may go to war with each other. NASA has been warning about it…scientific papers have been written about it…geologists have seen its traces in rock strata and ice core samples. Now “it” is here: an unstoppable magnetic pole shift that has sped up and is causing life-threatening havoc with the...