Category Space and Ufo

Origin of Deep-Space Radio Flash Discovered, and It’s Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Ever Seen

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Neutron Stars Collided, Sending Out Ripples in Space-Time

Artist’s rendition of a binary neutron star merger. HONOLULU — For the second time ever, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has spotted two ultradense stellar remnants known as neutron stars violently crashing together. The gravitational wave event seems to have…

The Greatest Spaceflight Moments of 2019

A Russian Soyuz rocket carried two NASA astronauts, Nick Hague and Christina Koch, and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, toward the International Space Station on March 14, 2019. Three lunar missions, commercial spaceflight milestones, the first all-woman spacewalk — 2019 was a…

What If the Earth Was Flat?

Gravity? What gravity? The Earth is a sphere. This is a simple fact that humans have known for thousands of years; it was incontrovertibly confirmed as soon as the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 1 satellite in 1957 and it…