Not quite suns, yet not quite planets, scientists have in the past few years catalogued several objects in space that are somewhere in between. Now, a curious twin version of these objects has been discovered, as reported by the BBC.

According to a study reported in New Scientist, gigantic superheated gas bubbles from outer space continually hit the Earth’s magnetic field.

News Scientist explains a study that has come closer to explaining why Jupiter, Saturnus and Uranus each have moons that containt the equivalent of 0.01% of the host planet’s mass. Read the article here

Nature reports about a potential crater that has been spotted to lie under the Antarctic ice sheet. If the observations are correct, the 500 kilometre wide crater would be the largest on Earth. Because of its proposed size, it has already been suggested that the impact causing it could explain the Permian-Triassic extinction event.

How to test whether our world is made of five dimensions? Look for black holes in the solar system. Apparently, for the Randall-Sundrum braneworld model to work, there ought to be thousands of small black holes in our solar system.

Bat blood? Fungal spores? Dust from Arabia? Algae? A few years back roughly 50 tons of something red fell on India. I remember the news, and I remember how no one had an explanation. What I do not remember, however, is the point when I forgot about the whole issue.

Now Popular Science has run an article on the phenomenon, and it seems that after five years of testing, no one is still certain. But the number one explanation sounds interesting: it came from outer space.