A recent paper packed with delightful acronyms digs into where people report having seen UFOs, but…
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SpaceX’s Starship created a volcano-like explosion in first launch
Debris left by the explosion of the SpaceX Starship launch pad in Texas on 22 April…
How to take a stunning photograph of the total solar eclipse this April 2024
Eclipse photography requires a bit of practice Sebastian Kennerknecht/ Minden Pictures / Alamy Some people spend…
Billions of stars have swallowed up a planet
Artist’s impression of a planet skimming the surface of its star K. Miller/R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) At…
How to spot the Spring Triangle as the equinox approaches
Alan Dyer/Stocktrek Images/Alamy THE 20th of March marks the vernal, or spring, equinox in the northern…
Titan’s sand dunes may be made of smashed up small moons
A radar image of the Shangri-La sand sea on Titan, taken from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Université…
Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn’s moon Titan
Landforms called yardangs can form on Earth – and they might also be present on Saturn’s…
The strange phenomena visible during April’s total solar eclipse
The moon will cover the sun on 8 April for people in parts of the US,…
We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time
IN THE Antarctic, things happen at a glacial pace. Just ask Peter Gorham. For a month…
Starship launch: Third flight reaches space but is lost on re-entry
SpaceX’s Starship taking off on 14 March SpaceX SpaceX’s third and most ambitious Starship test flight…