Astronomers have created the most precise map to date of the Milky Way by tracking thousands of big pulsating stars spread throughout the galaxy, demonstrating that its disk of myriad stars is not flat but dramatically warped and twisted in shape.
Scientists continue to find dangerous asteroids in Earth’s vicinity, but to fully capture the threat these nearby space rocks pose, they need tools that aren’t in operation now and may not be for years to come.
A lawmaker is raising concerns that the Pentagon isn’t sufficiently investigating the strange sightings of UFOs that Navy pilots have reported.
The Planetary Society says that its LightSail 2 satellite has demonstrated the ability to change its orbit by the power of light.
Rejoice, Harry Potterheads.
Over the past few weeks, the whole world’s attention has been focused on arguably America’s most mysterious military facility, Area 51, whose name frequently invoked in stories about UFO sightings, alien encounters and secret government agencies.
After completing its first year of observations in the southern sky, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has spotted some intriguing new exoplanets only 31 light-years away from Earth.
Representative Mark Walker wants to know if “unexplained aerial phenomena” from recent U.S. Navy sightings could be Russian or Chinese.
It looks like a space alien, or maybe a very deformed clam. But really, it’s a re-creation of a 500-million-year-old life-form.
The man who reported the latest alleged encounter with the creature said that while he doesn’t really believe in the Loch Ness Monster being a dinosaur, he does thing that there’s something lurking below the loch’s surface.
