The sighting of a bright red sphere racing out of our galaxy at extreme speed has handed NASA one of its strangest puzzles in ...
When an object in space appears to be racing at nineteen times the speed of sound, it instantly jumps from routine data point ...
Partha Nandi receives funding from the University of Stellenbosch. as a posdoctoral fellowship. Bibhas Ranjan Majhi does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...
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The idea was first hypothesized about 70 years ago. In a bizarre repercussion of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, objects traveling close to the speed of light appear flipped over. The ...
A satellite that had been dead for decades suddenly blasted out a powerful radio pulse that briefly outshone every other object in the sky. Astronomers think the flash may have been caused by a freak ...
Objects such as 'Oumuamua, Borisov and recently 3I/ATLAS have opened our eyes to the reality that outsiders regularly visit our solar system — and we're about to start spotting a whole lot more of ...