Driving at night might be a scary challenge for a new driver, but with hours of practice it soon becomes second nature. For self-driving cars, however, practice may not be enough because the lidar ...

Data show that unidentified lights in archival astronomy images were 68% more likely to be imaged 24 hours after a nuclear weapons test. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

UFO Sightings are increasing across the U.S. — and in Michigan where 36 sightings have been reported in the Great Lakes state this year. Most recently, on June 29, a person reported seeing a mass ...

For decades, astronomers have been aware of something weird lurking on old, 1950s-era photographic plates: starlike flashes of light (called "transients") that appear from nowhere and vanish just as ...

A new system represents the first time that the capabilities of conventional beam-scanning lidar systems have been combined with those of a newer 3D approach known as flash lidar. The nonmechanical 3D ...

Two new papers delve into mysterious lights and objects that were observed in the sky years before the first satellite launched into space. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers have been striving to ...

Some common objects are often mistaken for a UFO. A recent Detroit sighting involved dozens of reflective objects moving at high altitude. Michigan's 1966 UFO sightings led to the controversial "swamp ...