Elon Musk’s firm is continuing to deliver on its promise to provide internet to every corner of the globe with the latest launch of a Starlink fleet. SpaceX is set to launch 60 new Starlink satellites onboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 7.29am EDT (12.29pm BST) from Florida tomorrow. The […]
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A resident of Plymouth spotted a light in the sky moving over the city, which he believes is evidence of aliens. The witness grabbed his camera phone and began recording the strange light, which he said had been present all day. According to the person who filmed the strange lights, […]
The Hubble Space Telescope team has released another stunning space image captured by the instrument — this one of a globular cluster called NGC 1805. A globular cluster is an enormous collection of thousands of stars that are close together and bound in a spherical shape by the forces of […]
The Phoenix Lights Incident became a phenomenon from March 13, 1997, after thousands of people began telling of seeing huge triangular UFOs drifting over Arizona and the city of Phoenix. There has never been an official explanation for the sighting, with some claiming it was a military exercise while others […]
As Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner, who is currently onboard the International Space Station (ISS), was filming an aurora over Antarctica, several strange lights were spotted. The 60-second clip, filmed from the ISS, shows at least five mysterious dots moving in unison, heading behind Earth, from Mr Vagner’s perspective. The cosmonaut, […]
Photo credit: Malte Mueller – Getty Images From Popular Mechanics Carl Sagan once said we’re made of “star stuff.” Turns out he was right. For thousands of years, scientists and natural historians have pondered the origin of the universe’s many elements. Now, researchers have unraveled the origin of calcium, the […]
This image shows the star TYC 8998-760-1 accompanied by two giant exoplanets, TYC 8998-760-1b and TYC 8998-760-1c. ESO/Bohn et al. Two giant gas planets swing around a star about the same size as our sun 300 light-years away from Earth — and now you can see them doing it. That’s […]
ESO/Bohn et al. By Daniel CleryJul. 22, 2020 , 9:00 AM Astronomers know of thousands of planets around other stars, yet only a handful have been imaged directly. The existence of the rest is inferred by how they affect their stars. Now the world’s largest optical telescope has directly spied […]