Egypt Will Soon Be Home to the World’s Largest Solar Park
The Benban Solar Park, which targets to reach between 1.6 - 2.0 GW of solar power by the middle of 2019, will provide fast-developing Egypt with the clean energy it requires …
Among the brilliant theorists cloistered in the quiet woodside campus of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Edward Witten stands out as a kind of high priest. The sole physicist ever to win the Fields Medal, mathematics’ premier prize, Witten is also known for discovering M-theory, the leading …
The mystery of ’Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever observed, continues to deepen. A new analysis argues that if it were a comet, it would have broken apart as it passed near the sun. ike a hit-and-run driver who races from the scene of a crash, the interstellar guest known as …
Our first contact from aliens probably won't be as simple as the 1997 movie "Contact," where Jodie Foster listens for otherworldly signals at the Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico. However, there is a teeny, tiny chance it does start at the VLA. Astronomer Casey Law hooked up 24 parallel CPUs …
Telescopes have picked up a huge number of mysterious signals coming from deep in space, Australian researchers have announced. The radio telescopes have nearly doubled the number of the known “fast radio bursts” – bright flashes of radio waves that make their way to Earth from deep space. And the signals represent the …
For a species that was handed what might be the best of all possible planets, humans have been oddly anxious to leave it. Our itch to venture into space has been with us ever since we first realized that the points of light in the sky are actually places in …
Odd-looking aircraft or lights hovering high in the sky at various times across the U.S. have prompted questions from space enthusiasts: if it's not a bird, plane or even Superman — then what is it? UFO sightings have soared in recent years, leading many to believe it's a sign of alien …
Mysterious lights were spotted above Myrtle Beach, S.C. in August, raising questions about what the lights were and where they came from. "UFOs over Myrtle Beach? Video catches mysterious lights over resort town," reported The State, Columbia's local newspaper, noting that the video was also posted to UFO Stalker, a UFO-centric website. The video has also been uploaded to YouTube, …
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most reliable pieces of hardware ever launched into Earth orbit. It’s been peering into the depths of space for nearly three decades now, and while it’s had a few hiccups in the past, it’s always managed to push through them and continue …
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted out this picture of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s contrail, glowing in Southern California’s skies after sunset. “Nope, definitely not aliens,” Garcetti wrote. (@MayorOfLA via Twitter) SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket executed its first on-land touchdown on the West Coast tonight after sending Argentina’s SAOCOM 1A …
If you're in the vicinity of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Sunday evening (Oct. 7), you might hear some strange booming and see some weird lights in the sky. But the Air Force would like you to know that there's no need to worry; something entirely normal is going …
Elon Musk announced at a press conference in Hawthorne, California on Monday night that SpaceX has its first civilian passenger willing to pay to go around the moon and back on the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) in 2023: Japanese billionaire, Yusaku Maezawa, the founder of Japan's largest online fashion retailer Zozotown, who …
Strange goings-on in Russia… again. A cloud has been spotted above a block of flats in the Russian capital city Moscow. This isn’t just any cloud though, it’s like something out of Independence Day, but less Hollywood looking and more, well, just kinda grey looking. Still, it’s pretty perturbing to see. A definite flying …
Controversial footage is causing a stir among conspiracy theorists as recordings of a bizarre conversation between an astronaut and NASA have emerged. Alien ‘experts’ are claiming that during a live feed from the International Space Station, the astronaut uses the word ‘gospel’ as code to describe a UFO which appears on …