Category Space and Ufo

The brain tells us what to do, how to act, what to think and what to say. It even remembers the face of strangers on the street and wraps them up in our worries, plops a party hat on them…

Mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) dazzle through the sky. Space dominated the headlines in 2019 with stories documenting the first successful image of a black hole, or how a crashed Israeli spacecraft spilled thousands of tardigrades onto the moon. But…

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…

Will space aliens become an election issue in 2020? Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) says he’s prepared to disclose any government information about unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — but only if he wins, and mainly because his wife, Jane, asked…

The traditional nativity scene outside the Vatican on Dec. 25, 2011. From the birth of Jesus in a manger to the Star of Bethlehem, the classic details of the Nativity story show up in Christmas pageants and storefront windows everywhere.…

Meteors streak through the sky over Texas in this photo captured by Tony Corso during the Geminid meteor shower in December 2017. When meteor enthusiasts think of the month of December, they immediately conjure up visions of the Geminids. Over…

Leia and R2-D2 in the first “Star Wars” film, “A New Hope.” Movie-goers didn’t know what was waiting for them when “Star Wars” first opened in theaters on May 25, 1977. This Western in space showed dogfighting spacecraft, vehicles traveling…

A NASA illustration of a neutron star surrounded by its accretion disk. A new study suggests that gamma-ray bursts from colliding neutron stars could release deadly radiation at a far wider angle than previously thought. Gamma-ray bursts are among the…

Space-time is the conceptual model that best explains how the universe works. The fabric of space-time is a conceptual model combining the three dimensions of space with the fourth dimension of time. According to the best of current physical theories,…

An illustration of the International Date Line. The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary — and arbitrary — line on Earth’s surface that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole. When you cross the IDL, the day…

A panoramic image shows the Milky Way, our home galaxy. Nineteen newly discovered dwarf galaxies seem to be missing their dark matter, and physicists aren’t sure why. The find dramatically increases the number of galaxies that appear to be missing…

Data from the Planck satellite reveals the cosmic microwave background. The shape of the universe is one of the most important questions in cosmology, with far-reaching implications, up to and including the ultimate fate of the cosmos.  For decades, we’ve…