Phil and Stephen discuss remarkable recent discoveries related to space.

Citizen scientist spots comet tails streaking past distant star

Citizen scientist Thomas Jacobs was the first to spot tell-tale signs that a comet was orbiting a distant star monitored by the Kepler Space Observatory. Professor Saul Rappaport (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MIT) and his team then collaborated with Jacobs to report the discovery in new research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Mysterious object from deep space has entered the solar system

Most objects orbiting our Sun do so along a common plane: the planets, dwarf planets and asteroids mostly swing around in roughly the same way.

This one appears to have come down on the plane from 122 degrees, from the direction of the star Vega, in the constellation Lyra. And its path did not indicate the curved ellipse typical of clockwork-like returning comets.

Reports of spectacular UFO - a giant glowing ball lighting the sky - in Siberia

Strange messages coming from the stars are ‘probably’ from aliens, scientists say

What Lies Beyond The Edge Of The Observable Universe? 

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