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With an increasing number of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) reported over the past 20 years, US Congress held its first meeting in half a century to demystify the unexplained sightings in the sky. US Congressional hearing on UFOs. 5 points 1. US Defense officials said they have seen an increasing number of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft or objects in military-controlled training areas and training ranges and other designated airspace since the early 2000s.…

The offer is available on the firm's Sky TV, Netflix and Superfast broadband bundle which usually costs £56.60 per month. However, for the first part of this 18-month contract, customers will pay just £26 with that internet access removed from the bill.Sky's Superfast service features download speeds of 59Mbps which isn't the fastest but should be ample for streaming Netflix and watching movies online.Those who sign up will also get the award-winning Sky Q box which allows them to record multiple shows at once along with…

When No Man’s Sky was initially released in 2016, it was a bit of a flop. Players anticipated a game with endless worlds and possibilities but were left with a game that had a lot of glitches and problems that were beyond frustrating. Today, however, the game has begun living up to its hype. Through varied updates and patches, Hello Games was able to bring the game the life it needed for players to really start enjoying it. One of these awesome patches includes the possibility of hatching a living ship. Living…

In The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh discusses how contemporary literary fiction has failed to address climate change: “When I try to think of writers whose imaginative work has communicated a more specific sense of the accelerating changes in our environment, I find myself at a loss; of literary novelists writing in English only a handful of names come to mind… The literary mainstream, even as it has become more engagé on many fronts, remains just as unaware of the crisis on our…

Wynd, the fantasy series from writer James Tynion IV and artist Michael Dialynas, is coming back for another adventure. BOOM! Studios has announced Wynd: The Throne in the Sky, a new five-issue series set to debut in August. Letterer AndWorld Design returns for the series, the first issue of which features a main cover by Dialynas and variant covers by Dialynas, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion, & Dave McCaig, Christian Ward, Mike Del Mundo, and Dimitris K. Pantazis, among others yet to be revealed. Here’s how BOOM!…

In the wee morning hours of Thursday (May 5), a camera in Waycross, Georgia, witnessed a mysterious object streaking through the sky.Bright, fast, and trailed by a glowing oblong aura, the object looked a bit like a space jellyfish, as Chris Combs, a professor of aerodynamics and mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio put it on Twitter.  Of course, as Combs pointed out, this space jelly was no UFO – it was a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, roughly 250 miles…

There's something wonderful about sitting under the night sky, watching a meteor shower play out overhead. However, observers in the Southern Hemisphere usually get the short end of the stick, with most of the best showers strongly favoring those north of the equator.  Every May, however, southern observers get a special treat – the Eta Aquariid meteor shower. This year conditions promise to be perfect, making it the ideal opportunity for some autumnal meteor observation.The forecast peak for this year's Eta Aquariids…

Children’s physical experiences help them learn new words. Credit: Pexels/Andrea Piacquadio For adults, communicating in our first language feels easy and natural. Yet learning language is a complex process that is influenced by several factors. …

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) made headlines when it was announced that the new technology would enable astronomers to get a better view of the sky. The high-resolution telescope would render images using infrared light. However, the JWST has a limited function as it can capture a very small portion of the sky over a few years. To tide over this limitation, NASA'S upcoming SPHEREx mission can be used. According to reports, it can capture almost the entire sky every six months.The  SPHEREx mission, which is…

India's newest space PSU NSIL's first demand-driven communication satellite for Tata Sky will be launched by Arianespace on June 22, the France-based satellite launch service providers said.The Ku-Band four-tonne GSAT-24, developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), will provide high-quality television, telecommunications, and broadcasting services over India."The first Ariane 5 of the year will orbit two geostationary telecommunication satellites, MEASAT-3d and GSAT-24,"…