The circled streak in the center of this image is asteroid 2020 QG, which came closer to Earth than any other non-impacting asteroid on record. It was detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility on Sunday (Aug. 16), six hours after…
‘Oumuamua — a mysterious, interstellar object that crashed through our solar system two years ago — might in fact be alien technology. That’s because an alternative, non-alien explanation might be fatally flawed, as a new study argues. But most scientists…
U.S. Navy videos of alleged UFO sightings were previously available but had not been officially declassified. If you’re a fan of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and alien visitation, this is manna from heaven. Three videos showing U.S. Navy pilots encountering…
An artist’s impression of NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity flying on the Red Planet. NASA’s Mars helicopter, named Ingenuity, successfully powered up for the first time in space this month. Ingenuity is the first helicopter designed to fly on another planet.…
image This photograph shows the laser-ranging facility at the Goddard Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory in Greenbelt, Maryland trying to hit the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) with green laser light. For the first time, another facility in Grasse, France successfully bounced…
Would you rather use inches or centimeters? How people measure stuff might seem pretty bland as topics go, but behind America’s insistence to keep drinking coffee in ounces and pumping gas in gallons lies a story with a weighty dose…
A prototype rover creeps through a lava tube in Spain’s Canary Island of Lanzarote, part of a training campaign to explore settings on Earth that could be similar to those on the moon and Mars. Mars is pockmarked with absolutely…
Freemasons make use of numerous symbols on their buildings, regalia and texts. But non-Freemasons are probably most familiar with the mysterious square and compass symbol that adorns many Masonic lodges. Freemasonry, known popularly for its white aprons and arcane symbols,…
In a new study, researchers have modeled the interiors of the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Researchers are investigating an alien version of water inside the strange, icy interiors of Uranus and Neptune. In a new study, scientists have devised…
The 2018 Perseid meteor shower seen over Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Alps. Skywatchers beware: the moon will hinder attempts to observe the Perseids, typically one of the best meteor displays of the year. For Northern Hemisphere observers, August is usually regarded…
The quantum world is a pretty wild one, where the seemingly impossible happens all the time: Teensy objects separated by miles are tied to one another, and particles can even be in two places at once. But one of the…
Artist’s impression of a magnetar launching a burst of X-ray and radio waves across the galaxy Thirty thousand years ago, a dead star on the other side of the Milky Way belched out a powerful mixture of radio and X-ray…