On October 1, 1948, World War II veteran fighter pilot George F. Gorman, then serving in the North Dakota Air National Guard, decided to get in some night flying practice while the conditions were ideal. Gorman was soaring along in his P-51 Mustang, reports History, when he encountered something he’d never seen before: a glowing white orb.
Spacetime ripples reveal the most massive and most distant black hole collision yet
‘In a time of crisis, we look elsewhere for salvation, even if it means looking to the stars’
When a meteorite hurtles through the atmosphere and crashes to Earth, how does its violent impact alter the minerals found at the landing site? What can the short-lived chemical phases created by these extreme impacts teach scientists about the minerals existing at the high-temperature and pressure conditions found deep inside the planet?
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and two ground-based instruments, astronomers have discovered and confirmed a transiting hot Neptune exoplanet orbiting TOI-824, a K4-type dwarf star located 210 light-years away in the constellation of Circinus.
September’s full moon sets the stage for a Halloween blue moon.
A woman claims to have witnessed two UFOs hovering next to her Flintshire home moments after her friend saw the same thing 20 miles away.
Nanotheranostics, integrating diagnostic and therapeutic functions by nanoplatform, exhibits a great potential in precision and personalized medicine, and also raises the requirement on multifunctional nanomaterials in pursuit of both good biocompatibility and high theranostic performance.
When it comes to cases involving unidentified flying objects, few are as well documented or involve as many people as what occurred at Loring in 1975.
Weirdly, the biggest part of a galaxy is the hardest thing to see in it.
