More than 30 intelligent alien races could be living in our galaxy at an average distance of 17,000 light years, study suggests Astronomers at University of Nottingham claimed there could be 36 civilisations But they also cautioned that if these are short lived – Earth may be alone Intelligent civilisations were defined as those sending … Read more
LA Galaxy release midfielder Aleksandar Katai following ‘racist’ posts made by his wife on social media that called for protesters to be ‘killed’ during Black Lives Matter movement LA Galaxy have released midfielder Aleksandar Katai from his contract It comes after Katai’s wife, Tea, reportedly made ‘racist and violent’ posts online Aleksandar disowned his wife’s … Read more
Just when Samsung had finally put the exploding Note 7 fiasco behind it, another Galaxy smartphone has instantaneously combusted. A California man claims his Galaxy A20e began sparking ‘like fireworks’ and burst into flames. Kenji Yanase, the owner of the charred smartphone, shared a video of the Samsung handset after it had exploded, which looks … Read more
Astronomers capture image of super-rare galaxy 11 billion light-years away from Earth that looks like a ‘cosmic ring of fire’ Star formation has been named R5519 and provides snapshot of early universe Galaxy has a hole in its centre that is two billion times the sun-Earth distance Discovery was announced in the journal Nature Astronomy … Read more
Life on Earth can be traced back to the Milky Way crashing into a nearby dwarf galaxy more than five billion years ago, according to new research. The birth of the Sun is due to a close encounter with smaller loop-shaped companion galaxy called Sagittarius, say Spanish scientists. Analysis of the age of nearby stars indicates … Read more
A huge rotating disc galaxy has been discovered by astronomers and 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang it was already ‘well-ordered, cold’ and intact. The Wolfe Disk galaxy was found by astronomers from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The universe is 13.8 billion years old and most galaxies, … Read more
Smart phone owners will be aware that upgrading to the latest model has become a pricier business as the years pass, with costs for the top spec devices often exceeding £1,000. However, in a sign that customers might be getting tired of splashing their cash on expensive gadgets, smart phone front runners, Apple and Samsung, … Read more