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A consortium of American scientists and engineers filed a report that stridently makes the case for putting boots down on Mars.

Scientists Say the Time Has Arrived to Land Astronauts on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

In an update this week, NASA announced that it had lost signal of its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft.

A NASA Spacecraft Orbiting Mars Just Mysteriously Went Offline

By Victor Tangermann

An unusual new rock collection discovered by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover suggests the Red Planet's ancient past was wet and tropical.

Scientists Find Evidence of Ancient Tropical Oasis on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array detected significant amounts of methanol and hydrogen cyanide in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.

3I/ATLAS Is Carrying Ingredients for Life, NASA Finds

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in America and Europe have discovered one remarkable organism in California: an amoeba that can survive extreme temperatures.

Scientists Impressed by “Fire Amoeba” That Can Survive Incredible Temperatures

By Sharon Adarlo

Last month, the European Space Agency used five of the science instruments attached to its JUICE spacecraft to examine 3I/ATLAS.

New Image Shows Signs of Activity on 3I/ATLAS

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have found that the surface of 3I/ATLAS' nucleus could be dotted with erupting "ice volcanoes."

3I/ATLAS Appears to Be Erupting in Ice Volcanos

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers found signs that mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is radiating a "heartbeat" pulse of light that repeats every 16.16 hours.

The Mysterious Interstellar Object Appears to Be Pulsing in a “Heartbeat Pattern”

By Victor Tangermann

Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be passing by Jupiter to "seed" the planet with "technological devices."

Professor Says Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Releasing Sentinels Around Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

according to Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, there's something off about the latest image of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

Scientist Identifies Something Strange About New Image of Mysterious Interstellar Visitor

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond Neptune.

Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb criticized NASA for repeating the "official mantra that 3I/ATLAS is a natural comet."

Professor Rages at NASA’s “Deceptive” Press Conference on Mysterious Interstellar Object

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have captured spectacular images of a comet, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), breaking apart in three large pieces during its journey.

Amazing Telescope Photo Shows Comet Breaking Apart Into Huge Chunks

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA finally released an early "peek" at the observations of its spacecraft of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS during a livestream today.

NASA Releases Long-Delayed Image of 3I/ATLAS

By Victor Tangermann

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would do it.

Astronomer Explores Possibility of Launching Bad People Into Sun

By Frank Landymore

The observations are the earliest yet of a supernova, revealing in detail the moment that the shockwave obliterated the star.

Astronomers Witness the Moment a Fatal Shockwave Bursts Through the Surface of a Star

By Frank Landymore

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is still not giving up hope that 3I/ATLAS could be an alien mothership and says it's too early to call it.

Harvard Scientist Suspicious About 3I/ATLAS’ Origins Fires Back at Critics

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have identified several caves carved by water and they may have held or have evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Scientist Say They’ve Found Caves on Mars That May Contain Life

By Sharon Adarlo

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb says interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be firing its "thrusters" to leave the solar system.

Harvard Astronomer Says Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Blasting Its Thrusters to Get Away From Us as Fast as Possible

By Victor Tangermann

Arizona-based amateur astronomer Andrew McCarthy shared a now-viral image on Reddit that shows a man seemingly skydiving into the Sun.

Astonishing Photo Shows Man Skydiving Through Sun

By Victor Tangermann

Workers at NASA's Goddard Space Center describe a "campaign of destruction" being carried out by the Trump Administration.

NASA Insiders Say They’re Now Under “Constant Attack” by Trump’s White House

The MeerKAT radio telescope detected hydroxyl radicals from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, suggesting it's shedding a ton of water

Scientists Receive Interesting Signal From Mysterious Interstellar Object

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may have just broken up into well over a dozen pieces.

The Mysterious Interstellar Object May Have Just Exploded

By Victor Tangermann

In a controversial new paper, researchers argue that the acceleration of the universe's expansion has slowed down.

New Paper Claims Everyone Is Wrong, Universe’s Expansion Is Slowing Down

By Victor Tangermann

The White House mocked the space agency's since-abandoned commitment to sending the first woman and first person of color to the Moon.

White House Mocks NASA Commitment to Sending Women and Minorities to Moon… Which Was Made by the First Trump Administration

By Victor Tangermann

NASA staffers are raising concerns over a dozen buildings on its Goddard Space Flight Center's campus in Maryland being emptied.

NASA Staff Horrified at Plan to Throw Out Incredibly Specialized Science Equipment Like Garbage

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its camera to take high-resolution images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. We have yet to see them.

NASA Withholding New Images of Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is showing signs of "non-gravitational acceleration" as it reached its perihelion.

Mysterious Interstellar Object Showing Signs of “Non-Gravitational Acceleration”

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists were surprised to note that 3I/ATLAS brightened much faster than they anticipated during its perihelion last week.

The Mysterious Interstellar Object Has Unexpectedly Started Brightening, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A company recently agreed to purchase up to ten thousand liters of lunar helium-3 extracted from the Moon.

Mining Company Says It’s Identified Hugely Valuable Material on Surface of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent episode of the reality TV show "The Kardashians," Kim Kardashian said the Moon landings were faked. NASA is not impressed.

NASA Issues Horrified Response to Kim Kardashian

By Victor Tangermann

Assembled over eighteen months, the image shows the Milky Way at extremely low frequency radio wavelengths.

Astronomers Release Awe-Inspiring Image of What Our Whole Galaxy Looks Like in Radio Waves

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX has shown off intriguing renders of the interior of the Human Landing Systems (HLS) variant of its enormous Starship spacecraft.

SpaceX Releases Renders of the Inside of Its Enormous Lunar Lander

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomer Avi Loeb outlines nine "anomalies" that he says support his hypothesis that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is an alien artefact.

Nine Reasons This Scientist Is Suspicious the Object Screaming Past the Sun Is a City-Sized Alien Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Many NASA contractors and federal civil servants are not being paid during the ongoing government shutdown, which could lead to delays.

NASA Not Paying Moon Astronauts as They Prepare to Risk Their Lives

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomer Avi Loeb suggests that a quasi-satellite may be the "relic of an interplanetary mission by humanity from the 1960s."

Object Spotted Near Earth May Be Ancient Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

According to astronomer Avi Loeb, it's the perfect day to test whether interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is the remnant of an alien civilization.

Mysterious Interstellar Visitor Reaches Perihelion Today

By Victor Tangermann

A recent survey uncovered several mysterious objects in the night sky, photographed before the first satellite ever made it to space.

Scientists Find Strange Lights in the Sky in Photographs Before First Satellites Were Launched, Clustered Around When Nuclear Weapons Were Tested

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which visits the Earth roughly every 71 years, was spotted releasing intriguing radio signals last year.

Scientists Intrigued by Radio Signals Coming From Comet

By Victor Tangermann

A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto Earth."

Scientists Discover Remnants of Cataclysmically Destroyed Planet That Became Earth

By Frank Landymore

3I-ATLAS could be an alien craft slamming on its breaks to orbit Mars, noted astrophysicist Ari Loeb argues.

The Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Slamming on the Brakes, Scientist Says

Avi Loeb suggested that if 3I/ATLAS is a spacecraft, it may use its proximity to the Sun's powerful gravitational pull while hidden from us.

Astronomer Suspects Mysterious Object Is Up to No Good While It’s Hidden Behind the Sun: “If You Want to Take a Vacation, Take It Before Then”

By Victor Tangermann

China's Chang'e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon, discovered extremely rare water-rich minerals.CN

China Found Something Fascinating on the Far Side of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists simulated the conditions of Mars in a lab to observe how blocks of carbon dioxide "dug" their way through the planet's dunes.

Scientists Investigate Evidence of “Burrowing” Under Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is getting ready to ditch SpaceX for its first attempt to deliver astronauts to the Moon's surface in over half a century due to delays.

NASA May Ditch SpaceX for Moon Landing Because It’s So Behind

By Victor Tangermann

Keck II telescope observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS found "evidence for a puzzling anti-tail extension" pointing at the Sun.

Mysterious Interstellar Object Has Sprouted a Tendril Reaching Toward the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have identified two theories explaining the mysterious gamma ray glow at the center of the Milky Way.

Astronomers Ponder Strange Glow Coming From the Heart of Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

The Milky Way contains a modest amount of alien civilizations, a new paper proposes — and there's a reason we aren't seeing them.

NASA Scientist Proposes Theory of Alien Civilizations Throughout Milky Way

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have created a new phase of ice that can form at room temperature but requires extreme levels of pressure.

Scientists Invent Room Temperature Ice

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is gutting the Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- the storied research center that oversees all the agency's Mars rovers.

NASA Guts Workforce at Lab Responsible for Mars Rovers

The mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is absolutely blasting out water at a staggering rate, astronomers found.

Interstellar Object Is Spraying Something Weird, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers say that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the universe's first "dark stars" that are fuelled by dark matter.

James Webb Appears to Have Spotted “Dark Star” Powered by Dark Matter, Paper Claims

By Victor Tangermann

As of October, there are more than 8,000 active Starlink satellites clogging up the planet's Low Earth Orbit.

Astronaut Captures Footage of SpaceX Junk Cluttering the Atmosphere

Despite data suggesting interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is simply a comet, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb still thinks something is off.

Astronomer: 30+ Percent Probability Interstellar Object Is Alien Craft Disguised as Comet

By Victor Tangermann

The stunning photos of the interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, were taken by the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters last week.

Two Spacecraft Orbiting Mars Just Spotted the Mysterious Interstellar Visitor

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has seemingly managed to snap images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it made its flyby of the Red Planet.

NASA Rover Appears to Catch Photo of Mysterious Interstellar Object From Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have found that Saturn's moon, Enceladus, is spewing out copious amounts of complex organic molecules, signs of habitability.

Saturn’s Moon Shows Major Signs of Life

By Victor Tangermann

Galaxies "blazing with technosignatures" could suggest the existence of a "large number" of "different metasocieties."

Scientist Says Galaxies Shining With Radio Signals Could Indicate Numerous Advanced Civilizations

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have discovered that a "rogue" planet is going through a massive growth spurt and it's eating everything around it.

Scientists Spot “Rogue” Planet Floating Between Stars, Devouring Everything in Reach

By Sharon Adarlo

Astronomers detected a gigantic wave pattern in a large portion of the Milky Way galaxy by analyzing data from young stars.

The Milky Way has a Colossal Wave Rippling Through It, Astronomers Say

By Sharon Adarlo

Canadian Moon astronaut Jeremy Hansen told Ars Technica that he's hoping to "take a very short nap on the pad."

Astronaut Traveling to Moon Next Year Says He’s Hoping to Take a “Short Nap” on the Launch Pad

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers said they had found "undepleted phosphine," a molecule associated with life, on Earth in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf.

Astronomers Startled to Spot Abundance of “Biosignature” Molecules in a Failed Star’s Atmosphere

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers found that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS shows an "extreme abundance ratio" of nickel and iron in its gas plume.

The Mysterious Object Cruising Through Solar System Is Releasing Strange Metals, Paper Finds

By Victor Tangermann

Strange, quasi-circular circles structures called coronae scour the surface of Venus — but their origins are a mystery.

Scientists Intrigued by Weird Structures on Surface of Venus

By Frank Landymore