Col Charles Halt has revealed that radar operators had tracked a bogie at the time of the incident.
A new brain-like computer called 'memcomputer' could help solve the world's most enduring maths problems.
Astrobiologists have suggested that comet 67P may be home to live extraterrestrial micro-organisms.
Today marks a celebration of the UFO phenomenon as well as a renewed effort to increase awareness of it.
Some scientists believe that life is likely to develop elsewhere in much the same way as it has on Earth.
Some universes might provide conditions more favorable to the development of life than our own.
An unexplained pair of hands has appeared in photographs taken by two separate cameras in Borneo.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has outlined the space agency's plans for getting humans to Mars.
Astronomer royal Martin Rees believes that we are likely to encounter machine-based extraterrestrials.
Palaentologists have unearthed a cousin of Triceratops with a spectacular crown-like frill on its head.
The Siloe Patera crater on Mars is now believed to be the collapsed center of an enormous volcano.
Media reports of a close shave with a mile-wide asteroid have thankfully turned out to be exaggerated.
A NASA balloon experiment has picked up sounds that wouldn't seem out of place in an X-Files episode.
A celebration of all things Star Wars has been kickstarted by cries of 'May the Fourth be with you'.
The ridiculously accurate projectiles are able to track and hit a moving target over long distances.
A couple celebrating their wedding were shocked to find an unexpected extra in one of their pictures.
Rather than avoiding harmful pesticides on plants, bees might actually be deliberately targeting them.
The space agency has formed a new coalition of scientists from a wide range of different fields.
A new study has investigated what causes the planet to inexplicably vibrate at very low frequencies.
Astronomers in Australia discovered an unexpected source for a series of mysterious radio signals.