Japan's chief government spokesman has announced that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) exist.

Earlier, in response to a question from an opposition lawmaker, the Japanese government issued a statement saying it could not confirm any cases of UFOs.

But Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura later told reporters he believed they we ... Read More »

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 For a decade, scientists have puzzled over a surprising phenomenon: Supernovae stars viewed at extreme distances seem to be moving away from us faster than those nearby.

Most researchers have assumed that the stars have somehow accelerated – or that, more precisely, the rate of the expansion of the post-Big Bang universe itself has accelerate ... Read More »

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Scientists say that asteroid 2007 WD5 has a 1 in 75 chance of striking the planet Mars.

Astronomers have good news, better news and some bad news about an asteroid known as 2007 WD5. The good news is that this 164-ft.-wide chunk of speeding space rock, discovered in November in an ongoing search for potential threats to Earth, won't hit our planet any time in th ... Read More »

A NASA comet probe heading back to Earth for a gravity boost will be redirected after the disappearance of its intended target.

Deep Impact, which won funding for an extended mission after its successful close-up studies of Comet Tempel 1 in 2005, was expected to use its Dec. 31 flyby of Earth for a slingshot maneuver to rendezvous with a comet known as 85P/Boet ... Read More »

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Just when space scientists thought they had solved the mystery of the brightest explosions in the universe, along comes one that has the experts befuddled.

The confounding "gamma ray burst" was detected by space-based instruments and the Swift orbiting gamma ray observatory on Jan. 25, 2007. At first it stood out only because it was rather brig ... Read More »

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Researchers have discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is speeding up -- and has not halted or proceeded at a constant rate, as had been thought -- indicating that humans on different continents are becoming increasingly different.

"We used a new genomic technology to show that humans are evolving rapidly, and that the pace of change has acce ... Read More »

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A comet targeted for a flyby with NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft cannot be found, forcing mission planners to send the probe to a different comet. The comet may have evaded telescopes simply because its predicted orbit was incorrect, or, more intriguingly, it might have disintegrated completely.

The Deep Impact spacecraft completed its main mission in 2005, when ... Read More »

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The solar physics community is abuzz this week. No, there haven't been any great eruptions or solar storms. The source of the excitement is a modest knot of magnetism that popped over the sun's eastern limb on Dec. 11th, pictured below in a pair of images from the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).

It may not look like much, but "this p ... Read More »

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NASA's fleet of THEMIS spacecraft, launched less than 8 months ago, has made three important discoveries about spectacular eruptions of Northern Lights called "substorms" and the source of their power. The discoveries include giant magnetic ropes that connect Earth's upper atmosphere to the Sun and explosions in the outskirts of Earth's magnetic field.
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Dec. 14, 2007 -- A U.S. underwater archaeology team announced Thursday it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island.

The barnacled cannons and anchors found stacked beneath just 10 feet of crystalline coastal waters off Catalina Island are believed to be the ... Read More »

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ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2007) Life may have begun in the protected spaces inside of layers of the mineral mica, in ancient oceans, according to a new hypothesis.

The hypothesis was developed by Helen Hansma, a research scientist with the University of California, Santa Barbara and a program director at the National Science Foundation.

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A large galaxy could be lurking unseen in our own cosmic backyard, a pair of researchers says. Such a massive object could explain a mysterious gravitational pull on the Milky Way.

Astronomers know both the direction and speed of the Milky Way's motion based on measurements of the cosmic microwave background – radiation that filled all space shortly af ... Read More »

A rare new kind of star may have been discovered. It is much like the white dwarf our own sun should eventually become—save for a mysterious shroud of carbon ash.

The findings could shed light on the life and death of stars, astronomers said.

After they exhaust all their nuclear fuel, more than 97 percent of the stars in our ... Read More »

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