By now you’ve probably heard of SETI, or the ‘Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence’, which is a research organization that tunes and monitors receivers to look for any alien radio signals or transmissions. Instead of waiting …
In what is being hailed as one of the most remarkable discoveries in the search for habitable planets outside of our own solar system, a star has been found that has seven Earth-sized planets orbiting …
The South Pole can be a rather brutal environment for scientists to carry out their research as the Sun doesn’t come out at all in the southern winter (March–September), causing temperatures to drop to an …
In the early hours of Monday morning, a huge fireball was seen streaking across the sky of the American Midwest before exploding with a sonic boom that shook residential homes in the Green Bay area …
The Gran Telescopio Canarias in Spain is currently the world’s largest optical telescope with the aperture of its main mirror 10.4 metres across. Despite roughly 8 meters being the maximum size for an accurate single …
The CIA has finally caved in to demands made by freedom of information campaigners, including a lawsuit brought against it by MuckRock, and released around 930,000 declassified files. These include those related to UFO sightings …
Anyone hoping that an alien civilization will make contact with Earth may have to wait a lifetime, or more precisely several lifetimes, according to astronomers at Cornell University. In fact, it could be around 1,500 …
When we think of wars in space, we may imagine science fiction scenarios such as Luke Skywalker destroying the Death Star, but the U.S. military is taking the threat of a war in space as …
We’re currently in the middle of another space race, this time between China and the United States, with both countries investing heavily in developing technologies to help them accomplish the major feat of putting humans …
Of all the landfills to blight the planet, perhaps the biggest garbage collection on all is the one actually orbiting the Earth. In fact, the situation has begun to get so far out of control …
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