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Virgin Galactic has completes another successful glide test flight of its VSS Unity plane in the Mojave Desert yesterday. The test saw the Unity craft safely manoeuvre to the ground…
The SR-72 Mach 6 plane is being built to replace the iconic Blackbird which was used to spy on Vietnam, North Korea, and the Soviet Union. The development of the…
The research is based on the first ever comprehensive analysis of halite (salt-containing) crystals found within Zag and Monahans, two 4.5 billion-year-old rocks believed to have come from the asteroid…
Angelo Carannante, president of the Mediterranean UFO Centre (Cufom), has published the extraordinary document full of images from all over Italy and especially from the skies of Liguria. Mr Carannante…
Scientists are less concerned with the effect on Mars than on her two moons Phobos and Deimos which are seen as initial stepping off points for a full landing. Phobos…
Potatoes will be among the first veggies sent on a two-stage mission to the Moon and they will be joined by silkworms in an attempt to create a simple sustainable…
By the end of this next sentence the astonishing satellite, which can top 430,000mph, would be over Greenland. And by the end of the article the mind-blowingly quick probe would…
GETTY African babies were given a new TB vaccine even though five out of six primates involved in a trial African babies were given a new TB vaccine even though…
The scene looks for the world like a 21st century teenager texting or looking at social media while carelessly walking down the street but was actually painted around 1850. In…
Yesterday the Caribbean was threatened by a tsunami after a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Honduras. And last year Italy, Mexico, Iran, Iraq and China were among countries which were…
The display caused unrest among passers-by attending CES in the Las Vegas Convention Center as murmurs of “I don’t like this” and “no, this is too much for me” could…
Researchers are perplexed by repeating bursts of radio waves that currently originate from the same location. The fast radio bursts (FRBs) come from a dense stellar core near an extraordinarily…
The image captured by the space agency’s Juno spacecraft resembles van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ as it shows the planet’s tumultuous atmosphere. A NASA spokesman said: “Jupiter completely fills the image,…
The compounds which are vital to support life were found on two meteorites which are approximately 4.5 billion years old and the same age as the Earth. While the new…
The declassification of the final three documents among a series of reports dating from the 1970s brings to an end a 10-year campaign for transparency by ufologists. The Ministry of…
So-called alien truth seekers are convinced they have rumbled a secret prototype craft in Google Earth images above a Florida aerospace company. A video uploaded to YouTube suggests there has…
Elon Musks’s private space agency has said their Falcon 9 rocket operated “correctly” despite the loss of the top secret mission. SpaceX president Gwynn Shotwell said: “For clarity: after review…
GETTY The New York Times and Politico both reported on the programme The belief in aliens visiting Earth via spacecraft was given greater validity last year following reports by both…
The massive space satiation will spectacularly burn up in the atmosphere sometime in March, amid rumours that authorities have lost control of the deadly Tiangong-1. The Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace,…
Despite Chinese officials claiming to be in control of the space station, new calculations have revealed that Tiangong-1 threatens to slam into Earth sometime in March. But more alarmingly, a…
The South African billionaire has taken it upon himself to spice up the “boring” rocket test by fitting the payload with a cherry red Tesla Roadster – a “red car…
Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai travelled to the International Space Station (ISS) three weeks ago, and during that time he has had and astonishing growth spurt. He now says that he…
Professor Hawking said US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, has doomed Earth to one day become uninhabitable. And repeating his warning, the physicist said…
SPACEX’S launch of a top secret US satellite appears to have failed after the spacecraft reportedly burned up in the planet’s atmosphere and fell back to Earth. But is the…
SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket, attached to the US satellite Zuma, from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Sunday at 8pm EST time following weeks of delays. The details have…
The footage uploaded to YouTube has been hailed as proof of a long-running conspiracy theory that there are buildings on the Moon, which could either be occupied by aliens, or…
With temperatures reaching up to 44.2C in parts of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, some local wildlife is struggling to survive. Hundreds of flying foxes have dropped dead in the…
An extraterrestrial appears to have been caught on camera in a remote snowy part of Romania near the city of Târgoviște, according to the YouTube clip. In the clip, said…
Astronomers from the University of South Florida have taken a keen interest in the unique traveller focusing the Submillimeter Telescope at Mount Graham on it. Astronomer Michael Mattiazzo said: ”The…
Franchises such as Star Trek and Star Wars were thought of as fantastical when they were first released, but now things such as lasers and robots will be a staple…
The high-profile mission, backed by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, has been branded a “total loss”. During the customary live stream, the feed cut out just before the key second stage…
The arms race towards the development of killer robots is a growing threat to the horror and devastation of warfare, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots group has argued. The…
Scientists suggest the impact of warming seas has been underestimated and the impact is far worst than first thought. And melting glaciers are also a key factor putting pressure on…
The next supermoon will be on January 31, it follows on from the last supermoon on January 1 and marks the last in the supermoon trilogy – the first happened…
The east coast of the US continues to be ravaged by a freezing cold snap while the other side of the country has been hit by wildfires. These are a…
NASA scientists sparked furious a frenzy after the US space agency tweeted about finding stick like figures. They were snapped by the NASA Curiosity rover which is a droid currently…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has said that a stream of solar wind will hit our magnetic field today, January 8. The stream of cosmic material stems from…
American Robert Miller recorded a sensational YouTube clip which he said he made to “clear his conscience” as he is “getting old.” In the video, seen by more than 300,000…
Known as Comet PanSTARRS or C/2016 R2, the space body has been alerting experts who noticed it is leaving a bizarre blue trail in its wake. Astronomy photographer Michael Jäger…
GETTY-ESA-HUBBLE-NASA The image was captured by the Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 The Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 photographed the galaxy named UGC 6093, it has beautiful arms that swirl…
GETTY Two teams have shown the existence of a fourth spatial dimension Since Albert Einstein developed the theory of relativity in 1905, the fourth dimension usually meant time. But, two…
The Zuma craft, thought to be a satellite, was built by Northrop Grumman after being funded by an unknown arm of the US government for a mysterious mission to be…
The private space agency will launch the craft codenamed Zuma, thought to be a satellite, to carry out unknown observations and communications for the US government. The Falcon 9 rocket,…
The Falcon 9 rocket will deliver the Zuma spacecraft to orbit on behalf of the US Government and aerospace and defence company Northrop Grumman. The Zuma payload is shrouded in…
The SpaceX webcast above will stream all the action from the launch live from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. The launch has been push back to Sunday January…
Professor Digby Tantum, a Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Sheffield, believes language only plays a part of how humans communicate with each other. He argues the brain…
GETTY These six volcanos could erupt this year Experts are predicting a particularly seismic year with plenty of volcanic activity and six huge volcanos have been identified which could erupt.…
Photographs taken by NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, Lens Imager (MAHLI) may show trace fossils on the Red Planet, according to researcher Barry DiGregorio. Mr DiGregorio, who written several research papers…