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Strange Sound Reported in San Diego
truther July 1, 2012 1Residents from Chula Vista to Oceanside reported a large rumble around 12:45 p.m. Friday. The mysterious sensation was described by some people as sounding like a door slamming while others said it was strong enough
Read More »‘Sonic boom’ caused tremors felt across the north of Scotland
truther May 24, 2012 0A sonic boom has been blamed for tremors that were felt by residents across the north of Scotland. The strange vibrations were phoned into police late on Tuesday night by people in Cults, Inverbervie, Aberdeen,
Read More »Pictured: The flaming meteor that exploded with a sonic boom over Sierra Nevada
truther April 26, 2012 0A photograph of the flaming meteor that exploded over Sierra Nevada with a powerful sonic boom has been released by NASA. The boom of the space rock as it disintegrated rattled houses in both
Read More »Look Up! The Quadrantids Are Coming!
truther January 4, 2012 0NASA will stream video from an all-sky camera in Huntsville, Ala., in the hope those with cloudy skies may still enjoy the meteor shower (see bottom of article for the live feed)
Read More »Toxic Russian Mars Probe Heads Back to Earth
truther November 12, 2011 0It's hard to believe that only last week we were getting excited for Russia's first interplanetary mission in 15 years to launch. By now, we should be happy in the knowledge that the ambitious
Read More »600 Mysteries In The Night Sky
Pakalert October 20, 2011 0NASA's Fermi team recently released the second catalog of gamma-ray sources detected by their satellite's Large Area Telescope (LAT). Of the 1873 sources found, nearly 600 are complete mysteries. No one knows what they
Read More »Full-Blown Space Storm Could Send 750 Meteors Streaking Across The Sky Every Hour… But Will We Be Able To See Them?
Pakalert October 12, 2011 0The sky could be lit up by a stunning stellar spectacle this weekend as the Draconid meteor shower intensifies into a full-blown space storm. The Draconids streak through our atmosphere once every seven years and
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