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A powerful signal has been spotted coming from the vicinity of a sunlike star, and now astronomers are trying to figure out what it means. In May 2015, researchers using a radio telescope in Russia detected a candidate SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) signal that seems to originate from HD 164595, a star system that lies about 94 light-years from Earth, the website Centauri Dreams reported over the weekend. The astronomers have not yet published a study about the detection; they plan to discuss it next month at the 67th Inteational Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Guadalajara, Mexico, according to Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster, who wrote that one of the team members for...

A homemade gun allegedly exchanged in a gun buyback program. (Miesota Gun Owners Caucus) A Mieapolis gun buyback program targeting weapons used in street crimes may be shooting blanks, as detractors said a Saturday collection mostly took in antiquated, unused or homemade arms from legal owners and did little to thin the firearm supply actually available to dangerous criminals. Two Mieapolis locations collected about 150 firearms Saturday, but both exchanges were forced to shut down several hours early when officials ran out of Visa gift cards – $25,000 worth, The Mieapolis Star Tribune reported. And at least some of that money helped finance the purchase of even more guns. One anonymous ...

Two friends living in a remote community in northe Canada have just discovered through DNA that they were switched at birth 41 years ago. Leon Swanson and David Tait Jr. were bo three days apart in 1975 at a hospital in Manitoba run by the Canadian govement, local media reported Friday. [embedded content] Both men were teased about their resemblances to each other’s families as they were growing up in Norway House Cree Nation, 300 miles north of Wiipeg, the Wiipeg Free Press reported. “It’s pretty tough, it hits you like a ton of bricks,” Tait said, according to the paper. “(I’m) angry, confused, upset. I’d like to get some answers so I know what’s going on.” Nine months ago, two men from ...

As a space agency engineer, the last thing you want to happen is to lose contact with one of your satellites. Such an incident could potentially mean years of work lost, and that not only relates to the blood, sweat and tears expended keeping the spacecraft in operation far from Earth, but also the massive amount of preparation needed to get the thing off the ground in the first place. In October 2014, the situation looked serious for NASA engineers working on the Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission when they lost touch with one of two sun-studying spacecraft eight years after launch. The breakdown occurred while NASA was testing a set of important procedures...

Elizabeth Smart in Sandy, Utah, in 2015. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) SALT LAKE CITY – Kidnapping survivor ElizabethSmartsays poography led to her captor raping her more than he already did in the nine months she was held. Smartmade the remarks in a video posted Friday by Fight the New Drug, an anti-poography advocacy group. Smart, who was taken from her Salt Lake City home in 2002 at the age of 14, recounts how Brian David Mitchell showed her magazines containing hardcore poography. She says he then wanted to mimic what he saw. Smartsays she caot say that looking at poography caused Mitchell to kidnap her but that "poography made my living hell worse." Smartdescribes herself as an advocate ag...

Officials believe an “explosive hobbyist” may have left behind the device that detonated when an 18-year-old man’s foot landed on it in New York’s Central Park on Sunday moing, creating a blast that resulted in a severe leg injury for the man. Coor Golden was in surgery at Bellevue Hospital on Sunday evening with a grisly left leg wound that authorities said earlier in the day could require “possible amputation.” Officials said there was no evidence the incident was terror-related, and the working theory revolved around a person testing explosives, perhaps in advance of the Fourth of July holiday. Related Image Expand / Contract A man is loaded into an ambulance after he was injured...

Medics stand over a man who was injured after an explosion in Central Park. (Reuters) Officials believe an “explosive hobbyist” may have left behind the device that detonated when an 18-year-old man’s foot landed on it in New York’s Central Park on Sunday moing, creating a blast that resulted in a severe leg injury for the man. Coor Golden was in surgery at Bellevue Hospital on Sunday evening with a grisly left leg wound that authorities said earlier in the day could require “possible amputation.” Officials said there was no evidence the incident was terror-related, and the working theory revolved around a person testing explosives, perhaps in advance of the Fourth of July holiday. Rela...

The U.S. military Saturday accused a Russian warship of "high risk" and "highly unprofessional" maneuvers near a U.S. Navy ship in the easte Mediterranean Sea, the second time in as many weeks that American and Russian ships had such a close encounter on the high seas. A statement from the U.S. European Command (EUCOM) claimed that the frigateYaroslav Mudry passed uecessarily near the guided missile cruiser USS San Jacinto. The statement added that the Yaroslav Mudry navigated in the San Jacinto's wake. EUCOM said the U.S. cruiser was not threatened and maintained its course and speed. However, the statement said the Russian maneuver was "contrary to inteational maritime regulations." ...

The U.S. military Saturday accused a Russian warship of "high risk" and "highly unprofessional" maneuvers near a U.S. Navy ship in the easte Mediterranean Sea, the second time in as many weeks that American and Russian ships had such a close encounter on the high seas. A statement from the U.S. European Command (EUCOM) claimed that the frigateYaroslav Mudry passed uecessarily near the guided missile cruiser USS San Jacinto. The statement added that the Yaroslav Mudry navigated in the San Jacinto's wake. EUCOM said the U.S. cruiser was not threatened and maintained its course and speed. However, the statement said the Russian maneuver was "contrary to inteational maritime regulations." ...

File photo - The prototype of the Allen Telescope Array, which aims to aims to seek out signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. (Reuters) If you are hoping to meet an alien then you may be in for a very long wait, according to astronomers at Coell University. The experts say that it could be 1,500 years before alien contact with Earth and will present their research at the American Astronomical Society’s meeting in San Diego Thursday. “We haven’t heard from aliens yet, as space is a big place – but that doesn’t mean no one is out there,” said Coell student Evan Solomonides, who will present the research paper, in a statement. Related: Real-life 'X-Files'? CIA posts trove of UFO docu...

File photo - The prototype of the Allen Telescope Array, which aims to aims to seek out signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. (Reuters) If you are hoping to meet an alien then you may be in for a very long wait, according to astronomers at Coell University. The experts say that it could be 1,500 years before alien contact with Earth and will present their research at the American Astronomical Society’s meeting in San Diego Thursday. “We haven’t heard from aliens yet, as space is a big place – but that doesn’t mean no one is out there,” said Coell student Evan Solomonides, who will present the research paper, in a statement. Related: Real-life 'X-Files'? CIA posts trove of UFO docu...

The relationship between Orlando terrorist Omar Mateen and an American suicide bomber in Syria was much “deeper” than previously understood by federal investigators, according to a govement source. Fox News was told the relationship as well as the Mateen case in general are "very complex" but would not go further, citing the sensitivity of the FBI investigation and classified information. The source said the bomber's retu to Florida in 2013 is under fresh scrutiny as well. Mateen’s name surfaced twice for FBI investigators in the run-up to the attack. After the first, full FBI investigation of Mateen concluded in March 2014, his name surfaced two months later in a second, separate FBI ...