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Mars Red Planet Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt DLR and Centre national d’etudes spatiales CNES developing rover to explore Martian moon Phobos… to be launched with Japanese Martian Moons eXploration MMS mission [+] Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt

UFO Alien Ships Dozens of cigar- and saucer-type UFO sightings in the Shenandoah Valley in 1964/1965… widely reported by news agencies [+] WHSV: Jacob Fife

Mars Red Planet Chinese Zhurong Mars rover detects weak Martian magnetic field [+] Chinese Academy of Sciences: LI Yuan

Mars Red Planet HiRISE space probe captures Martian dust devil at Syria Planum [+] University of Arizona: Mohamed El-Maarry

Star Fleet New reusable rocket architecture proposed, relying on lift surfaces and jet engines for controlled powered return to Earth surface [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

Alien Sky Exoplanet AF LEP b resembling Jupiter and 87.5 light-years distant from Earth imaged directly by Keck Observatory [+] EarthSky: Paul Anderson

Mars Red Planet Humans may turn into cyborgs on Mars, and eventually evolve into fully robotic deep space explorers [+] Science Times: Margaret Davis

ET Alien As close to Alien as they come on Earth: the intelligence and decentralized neural system make the octopus a case study of how Aliens may think [+] OPB: Aaron Scott

UFO Alien Ships Do images released by the International UFO Lab in Japan depict UFOs? Some researchers believe they might [+] The Asahi Shimbun: Yukiko Sakamoto

UFO Alien Ships Japan among nations whose armed forces track UFO incidents [+] Popular Mechanics: Kyle Mizokami

Star Fleet Talking spaceships from the realm of science fiction to become reality: NASA working on AI voice interface for spacecraft, Lunar Gateway, and robotic exploration probes [+] The Guardian: Hannah Devlin

ET Alien Scientists develop math-based system for analyzing and decoding Alien messages from space [+] Science News: Matthew Hutson

Mars Red Planet Life on Mars, if confirmed, may share origin with life on Earth… but life in outer Solar System would be of independent origin [+] Daily Star: Michael Moran

Star Fleet Humans will depend on ecosystem simulating conditions on Earth to survive life in deep space [+] Cornell University: Blaine Friedlander

Alien Sky Explore a sampling of exoplanets with NASA’s interactive glimpse into alien worlds [+] NASA

Alien Sky Amino acid tryptophan, essential for key proteins of life on Earth, found in IC348 star system, 1,000 light years from Earth [+] Royal Astronomical Society

Star Fleet Edge computing using constellation of communication satellites orbiting Mars may provide communication solution for future crewed missions to the Red Planet [+] Universe Today: Brian Koberlein

UFO Alien Ships Glowing UFO observed by Minot Air Force Base ground personnel, B-52 crew, radar… equipment failures… a detailed analysis of this 1968 event [+] Sign Oral History Project: Thomas Tulien

Alien Sky Novel approach to searching for life in the Universe: computational zones – examining life as information systems [+] Scientific American: Caleb Scharf

Alien Sky Furthest reaches of Milky Way Galaxy found to contain phosphorous… essential elements of life on Earth – nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and phosphorous – present at the edge of the Galaxy [+] Science News: Bas den Hond

ET Alien Native American traditions of Star People: Ancestral Homes in the Pleiades… Spirits from the stars turning into humans… beings descending from the sky… flying discs… balls of light [+] Montana Pioneer: David Lewis

UFO Alien Ships Argentina has a long history of UFO sightings, among them: fiery balloons producing whirlwinds in 1816… silver UFO seen by 7,500 witnesses over Buenos Aires… the 1986 Mount Pajarillo UFO landing still celebrated today… missing time abduction incident of 2021 [+] Caleb and Linda Pirtle: Sara Hogg

UFO Alien Ships UFOs and volcanoes: X-points, wormholes, and the theory of volcanic interdimensional portals [+] Science Times: Caleb White

UFO Alien Ships Defense Department building specialized sensors to better investigate UFOs… U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand sharing data on UFOs [+] Defensescoop: Brandi Vincent

Star Fleet Robots for the Moon: NASA developing semiautonomous robots to support Lunar missions [+] Spaceref: Debra Werner

Star Fleet Spectacular images of International Space Station ISS photographed in front of Sun… with astronauts in spacewalk [+] Astrophoto: Thierry Legault

UFO Alien Ships Celebrities who have seen UFOs and believe in extraterrestrial Aliens [+] Insider: Martha Sorren

UFO Alien Ships F-51 Mustangs engaged UFOs in two separate incidents: the Mantell Incident, and the Gorman Dogfight [+] Warbirds News: Stephen Chapis

ET Alien National Security Agency NSA released report in 2004 referring to 29 messages from outer space… of Alien origin [+] Before It's News: Kevin Smith

ET Alien 10,000 year old petroglyphs in Valcamonica, Italy, appear to depict figures in protective suits and astronaut helmets [+] Express: Sean Martin

Star Fleet Captain Picard Day – the history of stardate 47457.1 [+] Space.com: Richard Edwards

Star Fleet U.S. Intelligence Community Foreign Materiel Exploitation program has capability to clandestinely retrieve military equipment across the globe… parallels to UFO crash retrieval program described by whistleblowers [+] The Drive: Trevithick, Rogoway

ET Alien AI may be first to make Alien contact: Harvard professor suggests that Extraterrestrial Aliens may explore the Universe using intelligent machines – which may seek contact with AI on Earth rather than biological life forms [+] Daily Mail: Rob Waugh

Alien Sky Saturn ocean moon Enceladus has all essential elements for biological life as we know it: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and latest to be detected: phosphorus… 1,000 times more concentrated than in Earth’s oceans [+] The New York Times: Katrina Miller

Star Fleet Giant Magellan Telescope to weigh exoplanets and search for biosignatures in their atmospheres… to capture short videos of exoplanets orbiting their suns [+] Science Times: Caleb White

Mars Red Planet Artistic postcard from Marker Band Valley, Mars, courtesy of NASA Curiosity Mars rover [+] NASA: Good, Fox, Johnson

Alien Sky Tatooine of the TOI-1338 system: Circumbinary exoplanet, orbiting two suns, discovered 1,320 light-years from Earth [+] Space.com: Charles Choi

Alien Sky Intelligent Universe: Is the Universe a self-organizing, evolving, and learning system? [+] BIG THINK: Bobby Azarlan

UFO Alien Ships UFOs on the Island of Enchantment: From the mythology about the dwelling place of the gods, to strange lights reported by Christopher Columbus, to contemporary UFO sightings, the paranormal jungle of El Yunque in Puerto Rico [+] Magic in Puerto Rico

Mars Red Planet Stunning Mars: High contrast mosaic of Mars released by the European Space Agency, built from 90 images taken by the Mars Express space probe [+] Space.com: Robert Lea

Star Fleet Lunar Power: NASA lays out plan for electrical power infrastructure on Moon [+] Universe Today: Andy Tomaswick

UFO Alien Ships Congressional oversight committee to hold hold hearing into claims that U.S. government is in possession of UFOs [+] The Guardian: Gabbatt, Greve

Star Fleet Artificial photosynthesis for space exploration: New photoelectrochemical devices may produce oxygen for crewed missions to the Moon and Mars [+] Interesting Engineering: Amal Chacko

Star Fleet NASA envisions creating infrastructure to facilitate ice mining and the extraction of oxygen and metals on Moon [+] Universe Today: Andy Tomaswick

UFO Alien Ships Whistleblower claiming to have been involved in retrieval of crashed UFOs alleges through attorney that he entered recovered saucer-shaped craft, experiencing space and time distortion [+] Daily Mail: Josh Boswell

UFO Alien Ships Former U.S. Marine claims to have seen octagonal UFO being loaded by military personnel in Indonesia in 2009 [+] Daily Mail: Josh Boswell

Star Fleet The space race to the Lunar south pole: Multiple countries planning missions to the Moon [+] SpaceRef: Leonard David

Star Fleet Tractor beam against space junk: Researchers developing electron tractor beam to someday combat debris orbiting Earth [+] Popular Mechanics: Jackie Appel

UFO Alien Ships UFOs recovered around the globe, increasing number of government insiders claim… materials exotic, not of Human origin… demand disclosure [+] The Debrief: Kean, Blumenthal

UFO Alien Ships A call to government to address questions about direct contact with extraterrestrial Aliens and recovered UFO materials [+] Politico: Christopher Mellon

UFO Alien Ships The 1980 abduction of Officer Godfrey in West Yorkshire, England: a diamond-type UFO, missing time – and a lost job and marriage [+] Daily Mail: Julia Lawrence

Alien Sky China’s space agency announces planned Lunar landing and exploration by 2030 [+] Universe Today: Nancy Atkinson

ET Alien Grey Aliens: a brief history of close encounters of the fourth kind involving Grays [+] Viewzone: Dan Eden

Mars Red Planet Live from Mars: First live stream of the Red Planet provided by the European Space Agency Mars Express space probe [+] European Space Agency

UFO Alien Ships Among the topics discussed during NASA’s first public panel on UFOs: Metallic orb-type UFOs tracked across the world… up to 100 new UFO reports per month to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office AARO… unexplained percentage of reports remains steady since 1950s [+] Daily Mail: Matthew Phelan

UFO Alien Ships AI Alien: limitations on capacity of biological brains, speed of evolution, favor electronic Alien intelligence… electronic intelligences may thrive in and prefer habitats inhospitable to organic life… organic intelligence may be short phase of civilization evolution [+] Scientific American: Rees, Livio

UFO Alien Ships NASA holds first public meeting on UFOs… All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office AARO has collected approximately 800 events… report to be published in July [+] BBC: Livesay, Whitehead

UFO Alien Ships Watch first public meeting by NASA on UFOs [+] Sky News

UFO Alien Ships The year of UFOs in Italy: in 1978 hundreds of sightings were reported, many involving Alien entities... prompted discussions in parliament [+] Mysterious Universe: Bibhu Dev Misra

Alien Sky One third of planets around most common type of star in the Milky Way Galaxy (red dwarfs) are in the habitable zone where liquid water could exist [+] Newsweek: Jess Thomson

UFO Alien Ships Scrambled MIG interceptors, radar tracking, military equipment malfunctions and radiation burns: the 1991 UFO sighting and alleged crash in the Shaitan Mazar region of Kyrgyzstan [+] Bradt Guides: Laurence Mitchell

Mars Red Planet Researchers discover direct evidence of ancient Martian ocean… maps [+] Universe Today: Laurence Tognetti

UFO Alien Ships Collision with UFO just a matter of time? U.S. Navy pilot claims… U.S. government investigating multiple near-misses [+] Daily Star: Jerry Lawton

UFO Alien Ships Chilean Army corporal missing time UFO incident of 1977: multiple witnesses and a soldier missing for 15 minutes having grown a five day beard [+] How and Why's: Vicky Verma

Alien Sky Company creates database of asteroids including mass, composition, and estimate of resource value [+] Asterank

Star Fleet Shenzhou-16 launch to Tiangong space station sends first civilian to Chinese space station [+] CNN: Simone McCarthy

Star Fleet Printed Moon base: China National Space Administration releases plan to build key parts of Lunar base using 3D printing technology… first stage to be completed by 2030 [+] Singularity Hub: Edd Gent

Star Fleet Startup company planning to launch first private space station, Haven-1, before end of 2025 [+] Space Explored: Seth Kurkowski

Alien Sky UAE planning to launch space probe in 2034 to explore seven asteroids, landing on one of them, Justitia… thought to have organic compounds on its surface [+] Space.com: Elizabeth Howell

UFO Alien Ships Clouds in the Bible: a description of flying craft woven throughout the Old and New Testaments? [+] The Truth Syndicate

UFO Alien Ships Harvard researchers publish papers on UFO detection and tracking methodologies and technology [+] The Debrief: Micah Hanks

UFO Alien Ships 119 UFO crashes and reverse engineering by governments, UFO investigator claims… to present evidence during June 12 press conference [+] Daily Star: Jerry Lawton

UFO Alien Ships A fiery orange UFO and two dead electronics technicians with lead masks: the mystery of the 1966 Morro do Vintém incident of Brazil… personally investigated by Jacques Vallee [+] The Mask Sign: Dominic Lacasse

Star Fleet Ultrasound system puts animals into immediate hibernation… technology may someday be used on Humans for long-duration space journeys [+] The Independent: Andrew Griffin

UFO Alien Ships Two fighter pilots attempted to shoot down UFOs… weapons had no effect [+] Daily Star: Jerry Lawton

UFO Alien Ships Luminous, pulsating, spoked spinning wheel described by U.S. Navy commander off the coast of Iran in 1952… similar phenomena reported over Indian Ocean in 1800s [+] U.S. Naval Institute: J.R. Bodler

UFO Alien Ships Late Prince Philip had keen interest in UFOs… investigated Alien life… calls to make files public [+] BANG Showbiz

Star Fleet Intergalactic travel constrained by cosmic horizon of an ever more rapidly expanding universe [+] The Debrief: Avi Loeb

UFO Alien Ships UFO detected on radar of flight approaching Gaziantep airport in Turkey results in cancellation of multiple flights and 12-hour suspension of flight operations [+] Turkiye: Son Guncellerne

Star Fleet Researchers study brownout effect of spacecraft landing on and ascending from Moon… regolith dust plumes hinder communications and visual awareness [+] Universe Today: Laurence Tognetti

Mars Red Planet Martian Belva Crater panorama assembled from NASA Perseverance Mars Rover images [+] NASA: Agle, Fox, Johnson

Mars Red Planet Martian crust thicker than that of Earth and Moon [+] IFLScience: Alfredo Carpineti

Star Fleet UK company develops reusable, foldable heat shield for atmospheric reentry and plans orbiting manufacturing platform [+] Orbital Today: Bella Richards

ET Alien Hang Son Doong cave in Vietnam, largest on Earth by volume, associated with sightings of reptilian beings [+] How&Why's: Vicky Verma

UFO Alien Ships UFO artifact images from Project Bluebook released by the U.S. National Archives… no analysis provided [+] Unknown Boundaries: Chet Dembeck

Mars Red Planet Underground lakes of liquid water on Mars? [+] Astronomy: Tom Metcalfe

UFO Alien Ships NASA to hold public meeting on UFOs on May 31… open to public comment [+] NASA: Katherine Rohloff

UFO Alien Ships Stanford professor Garry Nolan believes ETs are on planet Earth, UFOs of Alien origin, and government reverse engineering Alien technology [+] News.com.au: Frank Chung

Alien Sky Exoplanet of volcanoes inhabitable zone could provide conditions necessary for life [+] NASA: Kazmierczak, Andreoli

UFO Alien Ships Extraterrestrial, nonhuman terrestrial, disrupted reality – diverse possible origins of the multifaceted UFO phenomena [+] The Debrief: Michael Glawson

UFO Alien Ships Majority of UFOs are spherical in cases being reviewed by the Pentagon All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office AARO… do not behave like balloons [+] Popular Mechanics: Michael Peck

Star Fleet After the International Space Station ISS: The ISS will deorbit in 2031; NASA likely to pursue commercial space station in Earth orbit and build Lunar Gateway space station [+] BBC: Jonathan O'Callaghan

UFO Alien Ships U.S. Senator, then Armed Services Committee chair Richard Russell, witnessed UFO in the Soviet Union along with two aides in 1955… CIA investigated [+] UFO Evidence

ET Alien Cigar-shaped UFO and Alien abduction: the Winchester, England, incidents of 1976… multiple sources of corroborating evidence [+] UFO Insight: Marcus Lowth

ET Alien Intelligent Alien life peaked billions of years ago, scientist claims, using model correlating black hole feedback, the creation of stars, and the formation of planets [+] Universe Today: Evan Gough

ET Alien Couple experiences paranormal phenomena after spotting UFOs in the night sky – the Mojave Desert incident of 1989 [+] Medium: Dave Partridge

Star Fleet Scientists develop miniature tractor beams using lasers and sound [+] Interesting Engineering: Tamlin Magee

Star Fleet Glass fibers in Lunar regolith, discovered by scientists, may in the future help build structures on the Moon [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

ET Alien Artificial structures detected around star system? Astronomers advance possibility of Alien mega-structures orbiting star KIC 8462852 [+] Medium

Star Fleet China’s near Earth space capabilities increasing – expanding and upgrading the currently crewed Tiangong space station and bettering the capabilities of the supply spacecraft system Tianzhou [+] Spaceref: Leonard David

Mars Red Planet Now raging river on Mars? NASA Perseverance Mars Rover images indicate evidence of once powerful river system [+] NASA: Good, Fox

Star Fleet Chinese secret spaceplane returns to Earth after completing 276 days in orbit... similarities to U.S. Air Force X-37 spaceplane [+] Popular Mechanics: Sascha Brodsky

Alien Sky Direct imaging allows astronomers to characterize, and search for Alien biosignatures, on exoplanets… large potential as series of powerful telescopes come online [+] Scientific American: Briley Lewis

Star Fleet Scanning for UFOs: citizen science group Sky360 aims to build AI network of cameras to search the sky for UFOs [+] Vice: Tamlin Magee

Star Fleet Water from the microwave: Scientists demonstrate extraction of water from simulated Lunar regolith using microwaves [+] New Atlas: Michael Irving

ET Alien Bubble of silence: new statistical model suggests that Earth may have to wait more than 60 years to detect electromagnetic emissions from Alien civilizations… or 2,000 years… have trained telescopes for Alien signals for 60 years [+] EPFL: Jan Overney

Star Fleet Simulated black hole provides new concept for gravitational and space-time bending warp drive experiments [+] Popular Mechanics: Jackie Appel

ET Alien A brief overview of the Grey Aliens [+] Brooklyn Paranormal Society: Anthony L

Alien Sky New potential worlds for Alien life in our Solar System: Uranus moons Titania and Oberon may have liquid oceans miles deep [+] Daily Mail: Sam Tonkin

UFO Alien Ships Fiery lights and flying bowls: Korean Joseon Dynasty history has recorded several incidents of anomalous flying objects hundreds of years ago [+] Ordo News

ET Alien Earth’s radio leakage signature – how advanced Alien civilizations might detect us [+] SETI

Star Fleet Curiosity key to galactic civilizations [+] The Debrief: Avi Loeb

Mars Red Planet Roboplants to seek out water and nutrients on Mars [+] The Science Times: Margaret Davis

ET Alien Dialing in 10 million star systems: U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico to search for technosignatures from Alien civilizations [+] Gizmodo: Isaac Schultz

Mars Red Planet All-female crew for Mars… better suited for long-term space missions [+] Big Think: Ross Pomeroy

Mars Red Planet Blizzards on Mars: China’s Zhurong Mars Rover observations indicate possibility of snow on Mars half a million years ago [+] New Scientist: Alex Wilkins

Star Fleet Airbus space station design features artificial gravity… designed to orbit Earth, Moon, or Mars [+] Gizmodo: Passant Rabie

Star Fleet India plans space station by 2030 [+] The EurAsian Times: Sakshi Tiwari

UFO Alien Ships Warp drive observed? The 2006 Chicago O’Hare airport sighting: airline employee witnesses of a classic disc type UFO, and a hole punched through the clouds when it ascended; physicist analysis suggests witness reports consistent with warp drive craft [+] The Debrief: Plain, Hanks

UFO Alien Ships UFO firing beam over British Royal Air Force base: The Cosford incident includes military witnesses describing a triangle type UFO flying over base… firing light beam at the ground… dozens of independent accounts of UFOs reported over the UK at the time [+] Shropshire Star: Jamie Brassington

ET Alien Contact by 2029: Research team calculates when Extraterrestrial civilizations could reply to radio signals from Earth [+] Popular Science: Briley Lewis

Mars Red Planet Saw-tooth rock on Mars: NASA Curiosity Mars Rover captures image of row of spines on rock [+] Devdiscourse

UFO Alien Ships The extensive Operação Prato UFO investigation: Brazilian government investigation resulted in 500 page report and hundreds of pictures, videos, sketches and maps of the 1977 Corales UFO sightings, involving hundreds of witnesses, numerous flying objects, UFOs diving into the ocean, and victims of burns from light rays… pictures, maps, sketches [+] The Black Vault: MUFON

Star Fleet China building deep space internet, plans to construct research base on Moon by 2030 [+] CGTN: Sun Ye

ET Alien Two dozen new repeating fast radio bursts detected … extremely bright flashes of light up to 4 billion light years distant, trillion times more powerful than annual energy consumption on Earth… unknown cause [+] Daily Mail: Fiona Jackson

Star Fleet Search for another Earth: China plans Miyin program for 2030 to search for exoplanets, imaging and searching for water on distant worlds [+] Global Times

Star Fleet Farming on Mars: Researchers experiment with growing rice in simulated Martian regolith [+] University of Arkansas

ET Alien Australian Cahill abduction case of 1993: missing time, physical marks, hospitalization, witnesses [+] The Sydney Morning Herald: Daniella Miletic

Mars Red Planet NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter transmits image of Belva Crater during 51st flight… images [+] Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Star Fleet Exoplanet weather observation: new Extremely Large Telescopes will have ability to directly image and study atmospheres of exoplanets [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

Star Fleet Turning rock into breathable air: NASA demonstrates extraction of oxygen from simulated Lunar regolith [+] NASA: Rebecca Wickes

Mars Red Planet Mars panorama: China publishes first global panoramas of Mars from Tianwen 1 Mars Orbiter, comprised of more than 14,000 individual images [+] China Daily: Zhao Lei, Zhu Lixin

Star Fleet New highly durable 3D printed alloy developed by NASA withstands temperatures in excess of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit [+] NASA: Diana Fitzgerald

Star Fleet International Space Station ISS partners commit to extend space station operation through 2030 – United States, Japan, Canada, European Space Agency, Russia… since 1998, the ISS has hosted more than 260 international astronauts [+] NASA: Mark Garcia

Mars Red Planet Confirmed: Liquid iron core of Mars inferred using seismic data collected by NASA InSight space probe [+] University of Maryland

UFO Alien Ships U.S. All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) extensively and statistically analyzing UFO cases [+] Fox News: Chris Eberhart

UFO Alien Ships Reverse-engineering UFOs: six whistleblowers testify before U.S. Senate [+] Daily Mail: Josh Boswell

Alien Sky Time travel: Possible… multiple theoretical models explored [+] Scientific American: Sarah Scoles

Mars Red Planet United Arab Emirate Hope spacecraft captures most detailed image ever of Mars moon Deimos, and performed spectrographic analysis of composition [+] Inverse: Kiona Smith

ET Alien AI ET: The case for robotic AI ET Aliens [+] Big Think: Dirk Schulze-Makuch

Mars Red Planet Mars, the Red Planet, named after the Roman god of war, visited by more spacecraft than any other planet: dormant volcanoes, iron-rich regolith, carbon dioxide snow… key facts and statistics and a history of key exploration missions [+] Space.com: Charles Choi

UFO Alien Ships Magnetism one possible technology making orb-type UFOs fly [+] Liberation Times: Condorman

UFO Alien Ships Classified drone footage of metallic orb-type UFO released by U.S. Department of Defense All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office AARO during Congressional testimony [+] The Jerusalem Post: Aaron Reich

Star Fleet Fireworks rocket: Explosive launch of SpaceX Starship deemed a success [+] The New York Times: Kenneth Chang

UFO Alien Ships Bigger than any of us: U.S. Space Force general calls for international collaboration on the subject of UFOs [+] Independent.ie: Niall Feiritear

Star Fleet Most powerful rocket ever to launch on April 20th – SpaceX Starship… watch the livestream [+] The New York Times

Alien Sky Next seen again until 2031: Extremely rare hybrid solar eclipse on the night of April 19th, one of seven this entire century… watch the livestream [+] Space.com: Brett Tingley

UFO Alien Ships There be many: Pentagon All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office AARO tracking over 650 Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena UAP (UFO) cases, director confirmed during U.S. Senate Armed Services hearing [+] DEFENSESCOOP: Brandi Vincent

Alien Sky No sunburn: Max Planck scientists develop model identifying exoplanets with robust ozone layer protecting surface from deadly UV radiation, making them potential targets for searching for extra-terrestrial life [+] Vice: Becky Ferreira

Alien Sky Supporting the local Lunar fueling station: University study finds producing fuel on Moon more economical than transporting from Earth [+] Universe Today: Laurence Tognetti

Star Fleet Advancing science: Massive lift capacity of reusable SpaceX Starship could advance science by transporting larger observatories into orbit – in addition to plans of launching astronauts to Mars [+] Nature: Alexandra Witze

Star Fleet Selfie with Planet Earth: ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer JUICE spacecraft sends back first picture from space [+] ESA

UFO Alien Sky UFOs observed: 5 characteristics frequently shared across sightings [+] Llewellyn: Warren Agius

Star Fleet One craft to map them all: ESA Gaia mission creating 3-D map of nearly 2 billion space objects [+] ESA

UFO Alien Ships U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services to hold hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena UAP (UFOs) [+] WION: Abhinav Singh

Mars Red Planet NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes 50th flight on Red Planet… 45 more flights completed than expected [+] NASA

Alien Sky Ultraluminous X-ray source M82 X-2 hundreds of times brighter than our understanding of physics allows… expected to have exploded [+] The Daily Caller: Kay Smithe

Star Fleet NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory develops robotic snake to search for extra-terrestrial life on other planets [+] Interesting Engineering: Mrigakshi Dixit

Alien Sky Astronomers use new synergistic method to identify exoplanets, combining observable Antons of planetary motion and direct imaging [+] Scientific American: Nola Tillman

Star Fleet ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer JUICE mission to explore Jupiter’s moon scheduled to launch on April 14th… to arrive in 2031… to search for life on water world moons [+] NSF: Justin Davenport

Alien Sky Exoplanet 20 times larger than Jupiter discovered 70 light-years from Earth… orbiting dual stars and featuring a raging sand storm [+] ScienceAlert: Michelle Starr

Star Fleet 62 years after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin first space flight, permanent crewed base on the Moon is the next space frontier [+] News Italy24 Press

Star Fleet China plans to begin building Lunar base using local materials around 2028… robots to complete construction in five years [+] Interesting Engineering: Deena Theresa

ET Alien Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell was convinced that Aliens prevented nuclear war on Earth [+] Military.com: Blake Stilwell

Alien Sky Life may be based on silicon and ammonia instead of carbon and water on other worlds [+] Big Think: Matt Davis

Star Fleet NASA funds study to build radio telescope on far side of Moon using materials manufactured in-situ from Lunar regolith, including solar cells, antennas [+] NASA: Loura Hall

UFO Alien Ships Former U.S. President Carter reported UFO in Georgia in 1969, observed by ten other witnesses [+] Fox 5 Atlanta: Shannen Sharpe

UFO Alien Ships American Airlines pilot reported near-miss with cigar-type UFO over Arizona on 2/21/21… FBI investigated [+] Daily Star: Kristy Card

UFO Alien Ships Three commercial airline flights reported multiple high-speed UFOs off the coast of Ireland in November 2018… Irish Aviation Authority investigation inconclusive [+] Independent.ie: Allison Bray

Alien Sky Crewed missions to Mars by China and the United States in the 2030’s and 2040’s… permanent base by 2050 possibility [+] The Science Times: Margaret Davis

Mars Red Planet The Red Planet: iron-rich regolith, dust devils, highest mountain and deepest canyon in the solar system, water ice [+] Space.com: Charles Choi

Alien Sky Researchers propose searching for extra-terrestrial life in computational, rather than habitable, zones [+] Universe Today: Paul Sutter

UFO Alien Ships UFO photo from 1981 taken on Vancouver Island, Canada… photograph examined for authenticity multiple times [+] UFO Casebook

ET Alien Extra-terrestrial civilizations: Drake Equation, Fermi Paradox, and Dyson Spheres [+] BBC: Dale Shaw

Alien Sky Scientists discover prebiotic molecules in Perseus Molecular Cloud… building blocks of more complex organic molecules [+] SciTechDaily

Star Fleet Artificial black hole created using sound waves... to help better understand curved space and time, advance future warp drive research [+] The Debrief: Christopher Pain

Mars Red Planet Highest resolution mosaic of Mars created using NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter images… 110,000 images provide resolution of 25 square meters per pixel [+] NASA

Star Fleet Dawn Aerospace Mk-II Aurora spaceplane completes its first rocket-powered flight… designed for rapid reuse [+] Spaceref: Keith Cowing

Mars Red Planet NASA Perseverance Mars Rover has collected sufficient samples to determine if Mars was habitable… evidence of organic material… samples need to be returned to Earth for additional analysis, planned for 2030’s [+] Scientific American: Jonathan O'Callaghan

Star Fleet Indian autonomous space plane prototype RLV LEX successfully completes test landing [+] Gulf News

Alien Sky Radio signal suggests that rocky exoplanet YZ Ceti b located 12 light years away from Earth may have both a magnetic field and an atmosphere, making it more hospitable to life [+] CNN: Ashley Strickland

UFO Alien Ships Abduction of skier in Finland, 1944 in spherical UFO… telepathic voices from Alien [+] Medium: Fred Andersen

Mars Red Planet Mars settlement likely before 2050… water on Red Planet is key [+] SciTechDaily

UFO Alien Ships Tic-tac type UFO identified by National Reconnaissance Office NRO classified Sentient AI system [+] The Black Vault: John Greenewald

Alien Sky Universe a giant neural network, physics professor argues [+] Futurism: Victor Tangermann

Star Fleet Artemis II crew to be announced on April 3… livestream [+] NASA: Kraft, Huot

UFO Alien Ships Metallic, dome-shaped UFO reported by over 500 witnesses around Brushy Creek, Missouri in 1973… electromagnetic effects reported [+] ignaciodarnaude.com: FATA Magazine, Jerome Clark

Alien Sky Alien fossils may be catapulted into space by asteroid Antons, landed, buried on Earth [+] Vice: Sarah Wells

ET Alien Alien implants during abduction experience: Alien abduction of Terry Lovelace, former assistant U.S. attorney general… sketches of triangular UFO… implant of electrical device without incision [+] How and Why's: Vicky Verma

Mars Red Planet Unique planetary alignment of Earth, Venus and Mars in 2033 would allow return mission to Mars in the shortest possible time… only occurs once every 15 years [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

Alien Sky NASA invites college students to find solutions to reduce regolith dust during landing and takeoff on the Moon… $10,000 prize [+] NASA: Hambleton, Rowe

Mars Red Planet New photographic map of Mars created by researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi using images taken by the Emirates Mars Mission, also known as Hope… combines over 3,000 individual images [+] NYU Abu Dahabi

Alien Sky Map of 85,000 volcanoes on Venus created by scientists [+] Spaceref: Keith Cowing

Star Fleet Researchers envision microbe technologies supporting Human space exploration… can be used for biomining, recycling, energy generation, bioremediation [+] phys.org: Peter Grad

UFO Alien Ships Vimana flying craft from the ancient Indian Hindu Srimad Bhagavatam description similar to contemporary UFOs, in color, flight characteristics, invisibility… built by demigods [+] Mysterious Universe: Bibhu Misra

Star Fleet China announces additional details about Moon program… research station for astronomy, resource utilization, base for space exploration [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

Star Fleet NASA announces Moon to Mars Program Office… mission to establish permanent presence on the Moon to prepare for manned missions to Mars [+] Space.com: Mike Wall

UFO Alien Ships U.S. Department of Defense All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office AARO report states that Extra-terrestrials could be exploring Earth and other planets using very small “dandelion seed” probes [+] The Jerusalem Post

UFO Alien Ships UFOs to be scientifically investigated by the Russian Institute for Applied Mathematics IPM MV Keldysh RAS… soliciting evidence from eyewitnesses [+] Social Bites: Barbara

Mars Red Planet Martian drifting clouds in predawn sky captured by NASA Perseverance Mars Rover… video [+] NASA

UFO Alien Ships City block-sized UFO described hovering over battleship by U.S. Congressman Tim Burchett, reportedly seen by a Navy sailor in 1950s [+] How and Why's: Vicky Verma

Alien Sky Lunar glass beads containing water discovered by researchers at Nanjing University in Lunar regolith samples returned to Earth by China’s Chang’e-5 spacecraft… solar wind provides hydrogen to replenish Lunar water cycle [+] Inverse: Doris Urrutia

Alien Sky Rocky exoplanet orbiting TRAPPIST-1 lacks significant atmosphere, James Webb Space Telescope discovered… six other exoplanets orbit star yet to be studied [+] Space.com: Tereza Pultarova

UFO Alien Ships U.S. Defense Department investigating UFO incidents in the 1960s that demobilized nuclear ICBM missile silos… interfered with test launch [+] Daily Mail: Engrid Barnett

UFO Alien Ships UFO sightings spiked in the Midlands region of the U.K. during 2022… star-like the most common shape of UFO identified [+] Mirror: Brassington, Elliott-Gibbs

Mars Red Planet Morphology of the Martian Olympia Undae North Polar region gypsum dunes… images [+] SETI Institute

UFO Alien Ships UFO recorded by Pilgrims: the first documented UFO encounter by European settlers in America, 1639 [+] Ripley's: Engrid Barnett

Star Fleet From dust to power: 3D printing rechargeable batteries using Lunar and Martian regolith… NASA research project [+] University of Texas

Alien Sky Building block of RNA detected in asteroid Ryugu sample collected by Japanese Space Agency Hayabusa2 mission [+] SciTechDaily

ET Alien UFO sightings and Alien abductions in New England beginning in 1639 – a sampler [+] NewEngland.com: Joe Bills

Star Fleet Pellet beam propulsion using lasers and pellets may propel space craft ten times faster than traditional chemical propulsion, up to 20% of the speed of light [+] Interesting Engineering: Chris Young

UFO Alien Ships UFO over Bavaria: The Ingolstadt, Germany, sightings of 1979, witnessed by police, pilot and passengers, and many more observers… five-pointed object [+] UFO Insight: Marcus Lowth

ET Alien Reflections from Alien cities on exoplanets may be detected by the next generation of telescopes [+] Inverse: Kiona Smith

Mars Red Planet Mars Jezero crater fly-through as imaged by ESA Mars Express… video [+] ESA

Alien Sky Exoplanets outnumber the stars in the Universe… more than 5,000 identified to date… here is an expose of 13 of them [+] Popular Mechanics: Wagh, Wenz

UFO Alien Ships Multiple photographs of UFO taken in Finland by teenager in 1973 on photographic film… inspected by multiple investigators... known explanation [+] Medium: Fred Andersson

Star Fleet Satellite construction in Earth orbit demonstration project launched by U.S. Space Force [+] Air and Space Forces Magazine: David Roza

Alien Sky Mission to search for Alpha Centauri exoplanets using space telescope, Telescope for Orbit Locus Interferometric Monitoring of our Astronomical Neighborhood TOLIMAN… Alpha Centauri is star closest to Earth, four light-years distant… TOLIMAN is the old Arabic name for Alpha Centauri [+] EarthSky: Paul Anderson

Star Fleet Sci-fi hibernation for deep space travel may be tested on humans in the 2030’s, states European Space Agency researcher [+] Space.com: Tereza Pultarova

Alien Sky Over 1,000 stars likely orbited by exoplanets to be surveyed in a cooperative project between the Vatican Observatory and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam [+] Vatican News

Star Fleet Robotic rotorcraft Dragonfly, to arrive on Saturn moon Titan in the 2030's will search for the chemistry of life [+] Universe Today: Nancy Atkinson

Star Fleet A base on the Moon, long in the realm of science fiction, is starting to become a reality with new spacecraft, purposeful missions, and new building materials [+] BBC: Richard Hollingham

UFO Alien Ships Sumerian texts describe gods descending from the heavens – and shepherd king Etana who flew into space, to the Moon, and other planets [+] How and Why's: Vicky Verma

Alien Sky Distribution of water on the Moon mapped… could aid future Lunar missions such as the Artemis program [+] Space.com: Sharmila Kuthunur

UFO Alien Ships British aircraft designer believes that UFOs are piloted by Extra-terrestrials, and may be interdimensional… [+] Daily Star: Michael Moran

Alien Sky Complex molecules may be sign of Extra-terrestrial life on exoplanets… only produced by life, Assembly Theory states [+] Daily Beast: David Axe

Alien Sky The future influences the past, scientists speculate… retrocausality provides potential solution to inexplicable physics phenomena [+] Vice: Becky Ferreira

UFO Alien Ships Over 200 UFO sightings in Yorkshire, UK, in last two decades… UFO hotspot [+] Yorkshire Live: Ruby Penson

Alien Sky Active volcano discovered on Venus [+] Time: Jeffrey Kluger

Mars Red Planet StarCrete: making concrete on Mars with Martian regolith and potato starch… using local resources will reduce costs of future bases [+] Spaceref: Keith Crowing

Alien Sky Saturn moon Titan to be explored by NASA Dragonfly mission in 2030… robotic craft to have the capability to fly and drill, studying chemical composition [+] phys.org: Nick Oakes

Mars Red Planet Evidence of glacier found near Mars equator… implication may be that Mars had more water in recent history than expected [+] Seti: McDonald, Lee

Star Fleet Alt propulsion community discusses how gravity can be counteracted… brings together university professors, NASA scientists, defense engineers, and hobbyists [+] The Debrief: Christopher Plain

UFO Alien Ships Series of UFO sightings in Rockingham, New Hampshire, in 1965 had multiple witnesses, including police officers [+] Mysterious Universe: Brent Swancer

ET Alien Beings in helmets, boots and suits depicted alongside animals and fauna in 10,000 old Tassili cave paintings in the Sahara Desert [+] How and Why's: Vicky Verma

Star Fleet IVO Quantum Drive all-electric propulsion system to be launched in June… self-contained, light, and highly efficient [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

UFO Alien Ships Former U.S. Navy fighter pilot describes encounters with fast, spherical UFOs [+] Fox News: Jeffrey Clark

Star Fleet Suited for the Moon: new spacesuit for Artemis Moon astronauts presented [+] Space.com: Robert Pearlman

UFO Alien Ships UFO maneuvers defy our understanding of physics… missing radar signatures… should be glowing due to high velocity [+] Futurism: Avi Loeb

Alien Sky Artifacts and technosignatures of intelligent life in our Solar System may be hidden under dust and sand on the Moon and Mars… would not have survived volcanic and tectonic processes on Earth [+] Cambridge University: Andrew Jones

Star Fleet Multiple networked robotic explorers working together as a system will be needed to explore subsurface features on the Moon and planets, such as lava tubes, of interest for building future Human habitats [+] Universe Today: Laurence Tognetti

Alien Sky Forming protostar in Orion constellation, surrounded by disc of water in gaseous form, provides evidence that water on Earth is older than our Sun [+] Space.com: Robert Lea

UFO Alien Ships UFO disclosure imminent, Stanford professor claims… has worked with government agencies and defense contractors to analyze evidence of UFO encounters [+] How and Why's: Vicky Verma

Star Fleet Bioregenerative systems needed for sustainable long-term Human space settlements, study finds [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

UFO Alien Ships The strange tale of the Alien who lived in Kazakh village for two weeks [+] UFO-AC

UFO Alien Ships Unexplained transient flashes found in 70-year old images of the night sky… some aligned in a straight line over time – before the first satellite was launched… possibility of Alien craft [+] Inverse: Nathaniel Scharping

Star Fleet SpaceX Crew-5 returns to Earth from International Space Station ISS [+] NASA

UFO Alien Ships More than 300 unidentified objects found in low Earth orbit by U.S. Space Force Space-Track [+] Space News: Jason Rainbow

UFO Alien Ships UFO sighted by multiple U.S. Air Force pilots over Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C. in 1948 was of the “Tic Tac” type [+] The Debrief: Jazz Shaw

Mars Red Planet Martian sunset photographed by NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter during its 45th flight [+] Space.com: Josh Dinner

UFO Alien Ships UFO sighting in Uruguay with multiple witnesses investigated by Uruguayan Air Force [+] Merco Press

UFO Alien Ships Extra-terrestrial mothership may be in our Solar System, writes director of U.S. Armed Forces All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, investigating unidentified aerial phenomena UAP… could be releasing smaller probes near Earth [+] Military Times: Zamone Perez

Star Fleet AI being trained to search for biosignatures on Mars… experiment on Earth found AI to be more effective at locating life-supporting biosignatures than human counterparts [+] Futurism: Maggie Harrison

Alien Sky Meteorite Antoning Moon captured on video by Japanese astronomer [+] Space.com: Andrew Jones

Mars Red Planet Unusual circular sand dunes on Mars captured by the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [+] Space.com: Robert Lea

UFO Alien Ships High-speed silver UFO over Gravatai Air Force Base, Brazil, witnessed by a hundred military personnel in 1954 [+] Project 1947: Olavo Fontes

Star Fleet China making progress on construction of its first super-heavy rocket, Long March 9 CZ-9 [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

Alien Sky Extra-terrestrial life may be detected by advanced telescopes, Cambridge scientist suggests… believes life is quite common in the universe [+] Daily Star: Gem Stokes

Star Fleet Women’s Day: women astronaut firsts… the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, the first South Korean astronaut Yi So-yeon, the first Chinese female taikonaut, Liu Wang, the first female Space Shuttle commander Eileen Collins, and many more [+] Space.com

UFO Alien Ships One of the best UFO photographs: the diamond-shaped object over Perthshire… pursued by Royal Air Force fighters… left photographer terrified [+] Daily Record: Mark McGivern

UFO Alien Ships Images of UFO over Iraq captured by United States Air Force Reaper drone published… cylindrical object, cooler than its surroundings on thermal images… no visible source of propulsion or flight surfaces [+] Dailymail: Boswell, Sharp

UFO Alien Ships U.S. Government archives hold more than 7,000 UFO incidents, including numerous cases from 1949, such as flying discs sighted by a flight engineer in 1949, civilian pilots encountering a cigar shaped UFO, and a couple witnessing a triangular craft flying over their home [+] The Debrief: Jazz Shaw

Mars Red Planet Martian sunset photographed by NASA Curiosity rover, featuring rare sun rays [+] NASA: Good, Fox, Johnson

UFO Alien Ships UFO described by Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong… other crews of early space program also reported objects in space [+] How and Why's: Vicky Verma

Alien Sky Supercluster arcs of galaxies discovered to be the largest know structures in the Universe… 3.3 billion light year across [+] BBC: Jasmin Fox-Skelly

Star Fleet China National Space Administration announces Tianwen 2 mission to return samples from asteroid 2016 HO3 to Earth [+] China Dialy: Zhao Lei

UFO Alien Ships The Foo Fighter mystery of World War II: glowing objects followed Allied bombers in both the Pacific and European war theaters on many occasion... sightings remain unsolved [+] The American Legion Magazine: Jo Chamberlin

UFO Alien Ships Sixty UFO sightings in Papua New Guinea in 1959… including by priest and more than two-dozen other witnesses... humanoid figures [+] Close Engounter Project

Alien Sky Supernova recorded by Chinese astronomers in 185 A.D. still visible today by the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile… image [+] ars Technica: Jennifer Ouellette

Alien SkyStrategies used to observe exoplanets: spectroscopy, direct imaging, and polarization analysis… ambitious project would add gravitational lensing from our Solar system as a future tool [+] Physics World

Star Fleet Time travel possible using spinning lasers, physicist claims… relies on time loop generated by an artificial black hole [+] Interesting Engineering: Christopher McFadden

Star Fleet SpaceX Dragon Endeavor docks at the International Space Station ISS… video of approach [+] Space.com: Robert Lea

Star Fleet Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will photograph as much of the sky in 63 days as the Hubble Space Telescope would in 100 years… field of view 200 times that of Hubble… to be launched in 2027 [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

Star Fleet Chinese Tiangong space station to be expanded by a new module with six docking ports [+] Interesting Engineering: Chris Young

ET Alien Catholic theologian: Aliens and UFOs exist… numerous clerics have accepted the existence of extra-terrestrial life [+] Unconventional Individualist

UFO Alien Ships UFO prompts closure of St. Petersburg, Russia airport… Russian armed forces scramble fighter jets [+] Mirror: Stewart, Fahey

Star Fleet Moon dust to solar cells: Blue Origin creates photovoltaic cells using simulated Lunar regolith [+] engadget: Jon Fingas

ET Alien Middle Eastern historic literature incorporating references to extra-terrestrial life: tales of travels to the Moon, technologically advanced extra-terrestrial civilizations, visitors from space observing the Human race, and the crossing of dimensions [+] Middle East Eye: Goushey, Saber

UFO Alien Ships Canadian government studies UFOs: Sky Canada Project study to be conducted by the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada [+] CTV News: Daniel Otis

Alien Sky Red dwarf stars, such as TRAPPIST-1, produce sufficient light to support life on their exoplanets, experiment finds [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

UFO Alien Ships Numerous residents of Shag Harbour, Canada, witnessed a UFO crash in 1967… along with commercial airliner… watched object sink into the ocean… no wreckage found [+] National Post

UFO Alien Ships U.S. Air Force fighter pilots report near-misses and correlating radar observations of UFOs… observe supersonic accelerations, hovering, lack of control surfaces or apparent means of propulsion, unlimited flight times… cannot explain technology [+] Politico: Ryan Graves

UFO Alien Ships UFO downs trees, damages buildings, Antons tree growth years later near Guiyang, China… unidentified object observed by forest workers in 1994 [+] iMedia

Star Fleet Lunar lander concept introduced by China [+] SpaceNews: Andrew Jones

UFO Alien Ships UFO sighted by airline pilots over Yellowknife, Canada [+] CTV News: Daniel Otis

Star Fleet Signal could be sent back by probe passing through a wormhole before it collapses, simulation suggests [+] ScienceNews: James Riordon

Alien Sky Universe calculated to be 7 trillion light-years in diameter [+] The Nine Planets

UFO Alien Ships The Welsh Triangle incident of 1977: multiple witnesses reported seeing UFOs over Pembrokeshire, UK, including school kids [+] The Pembrokeshire Herald: Doug Evans

Star Fleet Radical space station concepts through the decades [+] Space.com

UFO Alien Ships Seven unexplained UFO sightings in Britain, Australia, United States, Italy, Zimbabwe [+] Daily Mail: Fiona Jackson

UFO Alien Ships Dozens witness UFO over Berkshire, Massachusetts in 1969, including children… one child claimed to have been abducted [+] allthatisinteresting: Natasha Ishak

ET Alien What could Extraterrestrial Aliens look like? Scientists share their thoughts [+] Dailymail: Sam Tonkin

UFO Alien Ships Modern UFO sightings and historical supernatural phenomenon intersect in the Falkirk Triangle of Scotland [+] AndrewHennessey.co.uk: Andrew Hennessey

UFO Alien Ships U.S. Secretary of Defense declines to release images of unidentified objects shot down over Alaska and the Yukon Territory… provides no additional information… search for debris called off [+] The Debrief: Tim McMillan

Alien Sky Glass spheres found on far side of the Moon by China’s Yutu-2 rover [+] science alert: Michelle Starr

Star Fleet First 3D-printed rocket scheduled to be launched on March 8 by Relativity Space [+] Space.com: Elizabeth Howell

Alien Sky Exoplanet hunters consortium of universities identifies dozen exoplanets in habitable zone [+] Astrobiology: Keith Cowing

Alien Sky Asteroid Ryugu sample, collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 space probe, analyzed: rich in organic compounds [+] NASA: Bill Steigerwald

Alien Sky DESI Legacy Imaging Survey releases update of largest 2D map of sky [+] phys.org

Alien Sky Lunar farming studied by European Space Agency ESA scientists… promising results [+] The Science Times: Caleb White

UFO Alien Ships UFO observations suggest highly sophisticated technology… increasing evidence and data available for scientists to study [+] The Hill: Marik von Rennekampff

ET Alien NASA seeking help of citizen scientists to identify signs of Extraterrestrial intelligence… UCLA SETI “Are We Alone In the Universe” project [+] NASA

UFO Alien Ships UFO sighting in Qing-Dynasty China over Nanjing captured in painting, 1892 “Soaring Scarlet Flame in the Sky” [+] The Nanjinger: Frank Hossack

ET Alien Winston Churchill was keenly interested in extraterrestrial life… published essay about possible life on other planets [+] Mysterious Universe: Brent Swancer

Mars Red Planet Analyzing samples returned to Earth may be the only reliable way to detect life on Mars [+] Space: Charles Choi

UFO Alien Ships U.S. Department of Defense keeps silent about the orb photographed by U.S. spy plane over Mosul, Iraq [+] MSN/Fox News: Chris Eberhart

ET Alien EXOPROBE research program uses high-speed cameras to search for and localize potential Extraterrestrial probes in near Earth space [+] The Debrief: Villarroel, Marcy

Alien Sky Auroras observed on all large moons of Jupiter… brighter than auroras on Earth [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

UFO Alien Ships UFO witnessed by multiple law enforcement officers in Mississippi in 1977, reported by news outlets at the time [+] Above Top Secret

UFO Alien Ships UFO over Canary Islands witnessed by hundreds across multiple islands in 1976, including Spanish Navy patrol [+] How and Why's: Vicky Verma

UFO Alien Ships UFOs over the Canary Islands cause airliner to make emergency landing in 1979… fighter jet scrambled [+] The Guardian: Bill Cemlyn-Jones

UFO Alien Ships UFO encounters in India: five top sightings from across the country [+] india.com

ET Alien Alien abduction of two Mississippi men in 1973 that made worldwide news [+] Clarion Ledger: Brian Broom

Mars Red Planet NASA Perseverance Rover mission on Mars to search for life, from August 2021 to present: Highlights of accomplishments and the journey mapped [+] ScienceNews: Liz Kuesi

Mars Red Planet Crewed mission to Mars highly likely within ten years, says Elon Musk [+] Business Insider: Sawdah Bhaimiya

Alien Sky Elongated asteroid captured by NASA Deep Space Network radar [+] Spaceref: Keith Cowing

UFO Alien Ships Physical evidence of a UFO landing: the Tully, Australia UFO incident of 1966 [+] UFO Casebook

UFO Alien Ships UFO sighting over Chicago O’Hare airport in 2006: one of the most documented UFO incidents with multiple witnesses and broad media coverage [+] Chicago Tribune: Ryan Smith

UFO Alien Ships UFO over Peru engaged by Peruvian air force fighter jet in 1980… craft undamaged after direct hits by 30mm shells… multiple witnesses on base [+] news.com.au: Frank Chung

Star Fleet Next-generation space capsule Boeing Starliner CST-100 press conference covering first crewed flight to the International Space Station ISS announced by NASA [+] NASA: Claire O'Shea

UFO Alien Ships U.S. President calls for creation of interagency team to study unidentified aerial objects [+] The Hill: Alex Gangitano

Mars Red Planet Planting forests on Mars proposed by ecologist… domes needed for protection and evolution to determine which species will thrive on Martian soil [+] Inverse: Kiona Smith

Star Fleet Inflatable habitation structures for the Moon proposed by Australian company… vision calls for habitat of multiple structures, including greenhouses [+] Gizmodo: Passant Rabie

UFO Alien Ships Chinese Buddhist monk Master Xu Yun described wisdom lamps in the sky in his autobiography… similar to contemporary UFO experiences [+] Curiosmos: Ivan Petricevic

Star Fleet Quantum principles proposed in the development of next-generation telescopes [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

Star Fleet Becoming a NASA astronaut: requirements, demographics, training and the work [+] Space.com: Elizabeth Howell

UFO Alien Ships U.S. Armed Forces will not rule out possibility of Alien craft, after string of unprecedented shoot-down encounters with unidentified objects [+] Time: W.J. Hennigan

UFO Alien Ships After the United States shot down another unidentified object, over Michigan, Pentagon officials cryptically state that they are referring to these as “objects, not balloons, for a reason” [+] The Sydney Morning Herald: Farrah Tomazin

UFO Alien Ships UFO over Qingdao City, China… may be shot down… incident comes as another unidentified object was shot down over North America [+] Dimsum Daily

UFO Alien Ships U.S. fighter planes scrambled to shoot down UFO over Kent, England in 1957… object disappeared moments before rockets were fired [+] Reuters: Peter Griffiths

UFO Alien Ships UFO seen over Mexico City by thousands in 1991… mainstream media reported extensively [+] Cool Interesting Stuff

Star Fleet AI creates own machine learning models, mastering in-context learning better than scientists expected [+] Vice: Tatyana Woodall

UFO Alien Ships Second unidentified, cylindrical object shot down over North America… U.S. and Canadian Air Force fighters shoot down object over the Yukon Territory of Canada, appearing similar to one shot down by U.S. forces over Alaska… retrieval in progress… government officials release scant details [+] NPR: Bowman, Doubek

Mars Red Planet Tufts University professor maps out plan for human settlement on Mars… incorporates elements of urban planning to address radioactive soil, temperatures below -80 degrees Fahrenheit, low gravity, and carbon dioxide atmosphere… calls for domed structures linked by underground tunnels [+] Tufts University: Molly McDonough

Star Fleet Dark, shadowed Lunar craters to be imaged by very sensitive camera ShadowCam aboard the South Korean Lunar Pathfinder Orbiter Danuri [+] Universe Today: Nancy Atkinson

UFO Alien Ships Silver-gray cylindrical unidentified flying object shot down by U.S. Air Force stealth fighter over Alaska… recovery efforts underway… Pentagon officials releasing little information [+] The Debrief: Micah Hanks

Alien Sky Evidence for Planet Nine provided by trajectory of interstellar meteorite CNEOS-14 that crashed into Earth in 2014, astrophysicist calculations indicate [+] Curiosmos: Ivan Petricevic

Star Fleet Miniaturized Orbitrap mass spectrometer a new tool for detecting extraterrestrial life in the Solar system [+] Physics: Allison Gasparini

ET Alien Interdimensional hypothesis: Are UFOs and Extra Terrestrials visitors from other dimensions? [+] Mysterious Universe: Brent Swancer

Mars Red Planet More cloud activity detected on Mars by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover… Martian clouds resemble thin cirrus clouds of water and carbon dioxide ice [+] NASA: Patel, Tamppari, Newman, Lemmon

Star Fleet AI assists NASA with designing hardware that is stronger, lighter, and faster to produce… additional advances expected when AI design is combined with 3D printing [+] Spaceref: Keith Cowing

Mars Red Planet Journey to Mars and extended stay on the surface by astronauts will affect human body in multiple and unknown ways, including bone- and muscle strength, coordination, psychology, circadian rhythm, and efficacy of medications [+] Salon: Troy Farah

ET Alien 33 Exoplanets targeted for technosignature signals from advanced Alien civilizations by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope FAST in China, the largest radio telescope [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

Mars Red Planet New evidence of water on Mars found: ripples in rock on Mount Sharp formed by waves on ancient lake [+] Phys.org: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

ET Alien Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures LAB searches for evidence of complexity suggesting Alien life in space, not focusing on biological evidence... funded by NASA... Alien life forms may not resemble Earth biology [+] Scientific American: Sarah Scoles

Star Fleet Sierra Space completes another stress test of inflatable space station module… to be used in future commercial replacement for the International Space Station ISS [+] Futurism: Victor Tangermann

Star Fleet Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander directed to Lunar South Pole by NASA in support of the Artemis mission… originally scheduled to land on Reiner Gamma… mission to provide scientific data for one Lunar day [+] gizmodo: Kevin Hunter

UFO Alien Ships Royal Air Force transport aircraft near mid-air collision with UFO over Newcastle [+] The Northern Echo: Phoebe Abruzzese

ET Alien UFO and Alien being incident at Peni NATO radar installation in Spain in 1971… witnessed by 60 military personnel… agitated guard dogs… shots fired and fighter aircraft scrambled [+] Medium: Galán Vázquez

Alien Sky Time travel into the past possible in a rotating universe… general relativity does not preclude this outcome… but no observable evidence we live in a rotating universe [+] Space.com: Paul Sutter

Star Fleet Artificial gravity facility concept introduced by Japanese research team… The Glass to make extended living on Mars, the Moon, and in Deep Space possible [+] designboom: Matthew Burgos

Star Fleet Two missions planned this year with goal to mine asteroids… AstroForge determined to be first company to bring mined materials to Earth… first missions to test technology and survey targets [+] Singularity Hub: Edd Gent

Star Fleet Two decades of evolution for SpaceX rockets [+] Interesting Engineering: Loukia Papadopoulos

UFO Alien Ships Multiple airline pilots report UFO near Volgograd, Russia, to military and air traffic control [+] Daily Mail: Will Stewart

Star Fleet Biomimetic robot for exploration of Mars developed by Nanjing University… mimics movement of lizards for traversing varied rocky terrain [+] Tech Xplore: Ingrid Fadelli

Alien Sky Earth-size exoplanet discovered orbiting 31 light-year distant red dwarf star… likely in habitable zone [+] science alert: Michelle Starr

UFO Alien Ships Pyramid UFO over Pelotas, Brazil followed and circled by private pilot… reportedly witnesses on beach and airport tower… extensive Brazilian media coverage in 1997 of incident [+] Rense: CNI News

Mars Red Planet Buried canyon and Anton crater discovered on Mars… made possible through 3D radargram of Martian north pole region using radar images taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [+] CNET: Amanda Kooser

Alien Sky 92 Jovian moons – 12 new moons discovered orbiting Jupiter, making it the planet with most moons in the Solar System [+] Sky & Telescope: Jeff Hecht

UFO Alien Ships Plasma UFO flies alongside FedEx flight over Mexico, experienced pilots report… capture multiple pictures and videos [+] Daily Mail: Josh Boswell

ET Alien Six children playing outside call mom about an airplane landing, having the shape of a gray hat, figures dressed in silver suits emerging, and the craft silently accelerating at a high speed and a steep angle: the Normanton UFO incident [+] Express: Jon Austin

Alien Sky Astronomers may be able to distinguish habitable from inhabitable exoplanets in the future using polarimetry [+] Universe Today: Evan Gough

Star Fleet University professor designs warp drive lab experiments to bend space/time… expected to be run in the first half of 2023 [+] The Debrief: Christopher Plain

Star Fleet Pulsars may be used for deep space navigation in the future, allowing for autonomous space craft [+] Universe Today: Alan Johnston

Star Fleet Micro nuclear reactor concept for the Moon introduced by Rolls-Royce [+] WCCF Tech: Ramish Zafar

UFO Alien Ships Numerous sailors from multiple U.S. Navy vessels describe encounters with UFOs… do not behave like drones… emissions of bright beams of light described… seem to simply appear… lack flight surfaces [+] Liberation Times: Christopher Sharp

ET Alien New possible technosignature signals of interest from 5 star systems identified using machine learning from data collected by the Green Bank Telescope Breakthrough Listen project [+] Space.com: Robert Lea

Alien Sky Exoplanets orbiting 133 light-year distant star on video… astrophysicist created using 12 years of direct images of the HR7899 system [+] Northwestern University: Amanda Morris

ET Alien Simulation hypothesis: the Universe is a simulation built by an advanced Intelligence… empirical evidence includes the fundamental role of mathematics, quantum mechanics, the speed of light, quantum entanglement, and the Observer Effect [+] phys.org: Melvin Vopson

Alien Sky Best chance of seeing green comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is in early February… perigee on February 1 is the first since the last Ice Age [+] Space.com: Robert Lea

Star Fleet Five innovative new technologies concepts proposed to NASA for enhancing space exploration [+] Inverse: Jennifer Walter

Star Fleet Giant rotating space stations may be best option for permanent Human outpost in space, constructed using materials mined on the Moon and asteroids – author envisions crops adapted to microgravity, AI lasers zapping asteroids and space debris, superconductors providing radiation shield [+] Medium: Erasmo Acosta

UFO Alien Ships Interest in UFOs high in Middle East in part due to culture, including recent sci-fi movies and The Arabian Nights, broad interest in futuristic mega-projects, as well as multiple high-profile UFO sightings in the region- author makes the case [+] Wired: Chris Wright

Star Fleet First artificial intelligence AI on Moon: United Arab Emirates Rashid Lunar rover includes Canadian Space Agency AI system to assist with search for minerals on the Moon [+] Space.com: Elizabeth Howell

UFO Alien Ships Orbs in the sky over Germany witnessed by crowds of observers… the Greifswald UFO incident of 1990 [+] Latest UFO Sightings

Star Fleet 3D printed rotating detonation engine successfully tested by NASA… the supersonic combustion is more efficient and provides more power [+] NASA: Ray Osorio

Alien Sky Multiple elements of biochemistry detected in deep space dust cloud 500 light years from Earth by the James Webb Space Telescope… carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen [+] science alert: Michelle Starr

UFO Alien Ships Baltic Sea anomaly appears like an Alien craft at the bottom of the Baltic Sea… reportedly interfered with electronics, releases electromagnetic energy… researchers reportedly suffered physical symptoms after being in the vicinity… further exploration apparently banned by government authorities [+] Earth-Chronicles

Alien Sky Olympus Mons on Mars, largest volcano in the Solar System… three times as high as Mt. Everest, as large as Arizona… active until 25 million years ago [+] Space.com: Nola Tillman

Star Fleet Artificial intelligence AI may reach singularity in as little as seven years [+] Popular Mechanics: Darren Orf

UFO Alien Ships UFO accounts from ancient Rome, unexplained sightings have been recorded thousands of years before the modern UFO era by Roman historians, including flying shields, arrows, over water, over battles, over cities… angel hair… radiant figures [+] UFO-AC

Alien Sky Near-Earth asteroid 2023 BU misses Earth by 3,600 kilometers… 4th closest miss of any asteroid recorded [+] The Virtual Telescope Project: Gianluca Masi

Star Fleet Eleventh asteroid: one more asteroid target, (152830) 1999 VD57, added to NASA’s Lucy space probe… Lucy has one of the most complicated flight paths of any interplanetary mission… [+] Universe Today: Evan Gough

UFO Alien Ships Four meter sphere crashed in Bolivia in 1978… United States government agencies reportedly involved in the object’s recovery [+] Mysterious Universe: Nick Refern

Star Fleet Krypton powered plasma thruster increases power tenfold… may provide new propulsion options for interplanetary exploration [+] The Debrief: Christopher Plain

Star Fleet Nuclear thermal rocket engine for travel to Mars being collaboratively developed by NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA under the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations DRACO program … to be three times as efficient as a conventional chemical rockets [+] NASA: Frazier, Thompson

Star Fleet A brief history – and future - of rapidly advancing AI artificial intelligence… language and image recognition already on par with Humans [+] Our World in Data: Max Roser

ET Alien Intergalactic battles millions of years ago? Oxford historian makes the case [+] How and Why's: Vicky Verma

Alien Sky Most likely celestial bodies on which Humans will find signs of extraterrestrial life: Mars, Venus, Europa, Ganymede [+] The Debrief: Christopher Plain

ET Alien Extraterrestrial Alien visitors to Earth likely not to be living beings, but AI machines, SETI astronomer speculates [+] The Guardian: Seth Shostak

Star Fleet Hypersonic pellet beam proposed to propel heavy space probes to outer solar system in less than one year [+] NASA: Arthur Davoyan

Star Fleet Seven hour spacewalk on the International Space Station ISS by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA and NASA crew members… NASA’s Nicole Mann is first Native American woman in space [+] meaww: Jasveen Kaur

UFO Alien Ships Nuclear Minuteman missiles went into “No-Go” condition, UFOs hovering over missile silos, multiple security detail witnesses, and an injury: the Malmstrom U.S. Air Force Base UFO incident… guidance and control systems of missiles malfunctioned… no technical explanation [+] COFON: Robert Salas, Jim Klotz

UFO Alien Ships Permanent United Nations office for the study of UFOs and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) to be proposed to the United Nations Secretary General by the republic of San Marino [+] Liberation Times: Christopher Sharp

Alien Sky Gravity waves to study very young universe, Princeton physicists propose… gravity waves passing through celestial objects may allow indirect observation [+] SciTech Daily: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

ET Alien Alien abductees tell similar, detailed stories of their experiences… abductees from all over the world… experience seems to follow bloodlines… multiple abductions during lifetime common… very similar descriptions of the gray Aliens encountered... talk of Aliens being grown in incubators [+] Thenotsoinnocentsabroad

Star Fleet ESA Juice space probe in final testing before launch in April… will explore Jupiter moons Callisto, Ganymeded, and Europa for habitability [+] BBC: Jonathan Amos

Star Fleet Rover-mounted x-ray “flashlight” design proposed for detecting resources, such as water, below the Moon’s surface… two locations on the Moon suggested for missions: Shackleton Crater and the Sea of Tranquility [+] Universe Today: Andy Tomaswick

Mars Red Planet Biomineralization using synthetic fungi to grow habitations on Mars, university professor proposes… reducing weight of materials transported to Mars [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

Alien Sky Life on exoplanets would be capable of improving the planet's makeup to be more habitable… process demonstrated on Earth… effect expands Gaian habitable zone around stars [+] Live Science: Paul Sutter

Mars Red Planet 40th flight on Mars of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter… serves as scout for Perseverance Mars rover [+] Space.com: Mike Wall

UFO Alien Ships Close encounters with UFOs associated with multiple internal injuries and over-connection of neurons, Stanford professor’s research finds… also studied evidence of engineered metals found to have highly unusual atomic characteristics [+] Vice: Thobey Campion

Mars Red Planet Bricks made of Martian soil may be used as building material on Mars, material scientists find… more studies needed with real Martian regolith [+] The New York Times: Nicholas St. Fleur

ET Alien 42,777 advanced extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy, study claims [+] Forbes: Jamie Carter

Alien Sky Cherenkov radiation from particles moving faster than the speed of light confirmed by scientists at Israel Institute of Technology… electromagnetic shock waves result in observable radiation [+] The Debrief: Micah Hanks

Mars Red Planet One Martian year of atmospheric data recorded by NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover in the Jezero Crater… average temperature -55 degrees Celsius [+] phys.org: University of the Basque Country

Alien Sky Over 3 billion objects in the Milky Way Galaxy catalogued by the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey, using the Dark Energy Camera at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile [+] Space.com: Robert Lea

Mars Red Planet Astroculture on Mars faces obstacles including salty soil, radiation, cold, reduced sunlight, and minimal atmosphere… technology such as solar panels, magnetic shields, and aeroponic farming can provide solutions [+] The Debrief: Amanda Winstead

Star Fleet Nuclear-thermal nuclear-electric hybrid spacecraft propulsion to reduce flight time to Mars to 45 days, compared to three months using conventional technology… concept proposal funded by NASA [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

Alien Sky Gravitational lensing using Sun to be used for imaging exoplanets, Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist proposes… would provide higher resolution than conventional space telescopes [+] The Verge: Matt Morales

Star Fleet 3D printing plays critical role in faster and cheaper production of rockets and spacecraft… allows manufacture of optimized metal components… employed successfully to produce multiple types of components, including engine chambers and tanks [+] Space Ref: Keith Cowing

Star Fleet Melt through Jupiter moon Europa's ice with nuclear reactor to search for life in ocean below, NASA physicists propose… reactor would use fission and fusion reactions at ambient temperatures… Europa’s ice estimated at more than 10 miles thick [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

Alien Sky Observing green comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF): location in the zodiac by date [+] Farmers' Almanac: Joe Rao

Alien Sky Wormhole 1,566 light years from Earth? First “sleeping” black hole in the Milky Way Galaxy detected, Gaia BH1… unlike conventional black holes, neither attracts matter nor releases radiation [+] Armenian News-NEWS.am

Star Fleet Multiple timelines experienced simultaneously during faster-than-light travel, physicists theorize [+] Futurism: Victor Tangermann

UFO Alien Ships Tennessee Congressman states that Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) represent something else out of this world… former U.S. Director of National Intelligence commented that UAPs seem to defy the laws of physics [+] Liberation Times: Christopher Sharp

Alien Sky NASA launches citizen scientist program Exoplanet Watch to search for exoplanets… provides engagement with NASA scientist and engineers… citizen scientists to assist with converting images of transiting exoplanets to light curves [+] NASA

Star Fleet TitanAir concept spacecraft would fly in Saturn moon Titan’s atmosphere and navigate its methane seas [+] The Science Times: Kendra Stacy

Star Fleet Artemis III: Crewed mission to the Lunar South Pole region planned for 2025… Orion spacecraft will be launched by the Space Launch System SLS rocket… SpaceX to provide the Lunar landing system [+] NASA: Darcy Elburn

Star Fleet Pipeline on the Moon proposed… commercial enterprise explores concept of transporting oxygen from Lunar polar regions through pipeline built by robots using metals mined locally [+] Universe Today: Evan Gough

Alien Sky Last chance to view green comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) … first encounter in 50,000 years… closest approach on February 1st [+] Interesting Engineering: Chris Young

Star Fleet Larger than a six-bedroom home and host to over 250 visitors since 1998, the International Space Station ISS is the largest and most visited structure Humans have built in space [+] Space.com: Elizabeth Howell

UFO Alien Ships Over 500 UFOs observed in restricted airspace or near critical facilities, newly released Pentagon report to Congress finds… many encounters by military pilots [+] Politico: Bender, Garrity

Alien Sky Rocky, Earth-size exoplanet discovered by NASA TESS telescope… TOI 700 e is 100,000 light years from Earth and its orbit is in the optimistic habitable zone [+] NASA: Jeanette Kazmierczak

UFO Alien Ships 1663 account from Robozero, Russia, reports a fiery UFO observed on two occasions and by multiple witnesses [+] My UFO Research: Cesare Valochia

Star Fleet Space debris greatest threat to spacecraft in low Earth orbit [+] Yahoo/AFP: Daniel Lawler

Star Fleet Plastic into food – proposed technology uses bacteria to turn plastic into biomass, printed into protein such as steak for feeding future space missions [+] Interesting Engineering: Sade Agard

Star Fleet Searching for life on other worlds: NASA announces plans for space telescope Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) with a mission to look for signs of life on exoplanets [+] Science.org: Daniel Clery

UFO Alien Ships UFO encounters frequently reported during armed conflicts: U.S. Civil War, Spanish Civil War, Korean War, Algerian War of Independence, Vietnam War… many reports of UFOs being unaffected when fired upon [+] Mysterious Universe: Brent Swancer

Mars Red Planet Opal discovered along fractures on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover… fractures were one of the last water-rich environments and provided milder conditions for potential life… opal gems have relatively high water content [+] Arizona State University

Alien Sky Newly discovered Milky Way stars orbit our galaxy half-way to the Andromeda galaxy, the closest galactic neighbor… the RR Lyrae variable stars are located in the galaxy’s outer halo, 100,000 light years from the galactic center [+] Universe Today: Carolyn Collins Petersen

ET Alien Extraterrestrials may not have contacted Earth because evidence of our technology has not yet reached an advanced civilization, paper suggests… …Aliens may only be interested in technologically advanced planets… possible answer to the Fermi Paradox [+] Live Science: Stephanie Pappas

Star Fleet Electric thrusters may reduce travel time to Mars to 39 days in the future… technology used in multiple satellites and the Chinse Tiangong space station [+] Hackaday: Lewin Day

Star Fleet SpaceX Starship may have first orbital test flight in February… fully reusable spaceship designed for missions to the Moon and Mars [+] Space.com: Mike Wall

UFO Alien Ships Veteran United States Army pilot fatally crashed while pursuing UFO in 1948… hundreds eyewitnesses… incident not fully resolved 75 years later… investigators claim object experienced WWII fighter pilot chased was Venus or weather balloon [+] U.S. Army: Eric Pilgrim

Star Fleet Solar sail propulsion may win over chemical rockets for returning minerals mined from asteroids back to Earth… more cost-effective in many scenarios, study finds [+] Universe Today: Andy Tomaswick

Star Fleet Living quarters space at a premium in design of NASA’s Gateway Lunar orbital space station… no room for space gymnastics… one sixth the size of the International Space Station ISS… to be built 1,000 times as far from Earth as ISS [+] Space.com: Tereza Pultarova

UFO Alien Ships The triangular-shaped UFOs that have been sighted throughout the world since the 1980s… prompted collaboration between the UK and United States on UFO analysis… investigated for years by UK Ministry of Defense [+] Mysterious Universe: Nick Redfern

Star Fleet Mineral resources tempting to space mining entrepreneurs… Moon primary target, asteroids also promising [+] Space.com: Leonard David

Mars Red Planet Oxygen-rich atmosphere on Mars in its early history? New study raises questions… environmental and chemical conditions differed substantially from Earth [+] Inverse: Evan Gough

ET Alien Alien spacecraft reaching Earth would be highly evolved and sophisticated models, astronomer proposes… displaying capabilities well beyond our technology [+] Inverse: Kiona Smith

UFO Alien Ships UFO shot down! Russian news outlet Privyet Rostov reports that antiaircraft fire shot down a round UFO near Sultan Sala… regional governor addresses citizens [+] The Science Times: Joshua Stan

Mars Red Planet One Martian year: NASA Perseverance Rover has spent one Martian year on the surface of Mars… has driven 8.7 miles… continues to collect soil samples to be brought to Earth for analysis of evidence of life [+] Space.com: Mike Wall

UFO Alien Ships Ten well-documented UFO sightings with multiple witnesses… case with 5,000 observers in New York… crash in Nova Scotia with multiple witnesses… more than 200 students observe UFO in Melbourne, Australia… numerous sightings by commercial airline personnel… fighter jets scrambled in Belgium… more [+] howstuffworks: Kevin Saltarelli

Star Fleet Solar sail space probes being pursued by multiple countries… make use of solar wind to provide constant acceleration to high speeds to explore the Solar System… technology still developing [+] Space.com: Leonard David

Star Fleet 2023 to be a year of record space activity… more than a dozen missions to the Moon planned… multiple Lunar rovers… more commercial space launches… fully private mission to the International Space Station ISS… reusable space craft still the exception [+] Gizmodo: George Dvorsky

Star Fleet Hilton to design astronaut living suites for commercial space station Starlab [+] Robb Report: Abby Montanez

Star Fleet Caltech's Space Solar Power Project demonstration to be launched by SpaceX in January 2023… to test efficiency and wireless transmission to Earth [+] Interesting Engineering: John Loeffler

Star Fleet The first reusable space craft: NASA’s Space Shuttle, in service from 1981 to 2011 [+] History Hit: Teet Ottin

UFO Alien Ships U.S. Department of Defense to reinvestigate 1945 UFO crash… examination of incidents since 1945 mandated by President Biden signing the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act… crash predates the Roswell incident and involved an avocado-shaped craft, sighting of Alien occupants, and possible physical evidence [+] The Sun: Chris Bradford

Mars Red Planet NASA has been searching for evidence of biological life on Mars for a long time, including currently with the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers [+] Space.com: Robert Lea

Star Fleet South Korea’s first Lunar orbiter transmits images of Moon, Earth… launched by SpaceX in August, entered Lunar orbit in December… data gathered to be used to select a site for the planned 2032 South Korean Moon landing [+] Daily Mail: Sam Tonkin

Star Fleet Optimal location for Moon base sought by China National Space Administration… robotic exploration continues in the region around the Lunar south pole using multiple space probes [+] Universe Today: Andy Tomaswick

Alien Sky HAARP bounces radio signals off asteroid XC15 as part of study of near-Earth objects… longer wavelengths used in experiment may provide information about interior of asteroids [+] University of Alaska: Rod Boyce

Alien Sky Spacecraft, terrestrial and space telescopes captured fascinating space images during 2022 [+] Gizmodo: Isaac Schultz

Star Fleet Creating landing pads on the Moon using Lunar regolith… and microwaves [+] Universe Today: Andy Tomaswick

ET Alien Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) takes multifaceted approach: signals, such as broadcasts, from Alien planets; megastructures built by advanced civilizations, such as Dyson Spheres; pollution, such as chlorofluorocarbons [+] SciTechDaily: Huston, Wright

Alien Sky Physicists at the University of Warsaw (Poland) and the National University of Singapore develop new model to allow for light speed travel… combines three dimensions into one [+] Science Alert: David Nield

Mars Red Planet Martian winter landscapes captured by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter… areas of Mars receive several feet of carbon dioxide snow… temperatures as low as -123 degrees Celsius/-190 degrees Fahrenheit… cube-shaped dry ice snow flakes [+] Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Star Fleet Biological pico-scale von Neumann system could potentially be deployed to explore other stars, geneticist proposes [+] Universe Today: Andy Tomaswick

Alien Sky Niburu, Planet-X, the 12th Planet – do we have evidence of Planet 9 in our Solar System? [+] Ancient Origins: Christos Djonis

Star Fleet 10 anticipated space launches in 2023: Polaris Dawn, Commercial Lunar Payload Services, JUICE, Chandrayayaan-3, Axiom AX-2, and more [+] Inverse: Jennifer Walter

Star Fleet Highlights from spaceflight in 2022: Artemis I, DART, James Webb Space Telescope, and more [+] The Verge: Jackie Appel

UFO Alien Ships Zimbabwe Ruwa school UFO sighting of 1994: photos of evidence, drawings from eyewitnesses support UFO sighting seen by over more than 60 school children and teachers [+] Dailymail: Boswell, Sharp

UFO Alien Ships Dutch commercial airline pilot and aerial photographer reports having observed and photographed UFOs… describes objects performing maneuvers beyond our technology [+] The Sun: Henry Holloway

Alien Sky Advanced civilization on Mars could have terraformed Earth two billion years ago when Mars lost much of its atmosphere and surface water – and oxygen levels on Earth rose… traces of civilization would have been almost completely erased by asteroid Antons and geologic activity on both planets [+] Medium.com: Avi Loeb

Star Fleet Earth has experiences catastrophic asteroid Antons in its history, threat continues… smaller space rocks capable of destroying a city harder to identify and track… new technology to assist with spotting and responding to asteroids on a collision course with Earth… NEO Surveyor satellite will catalogue as of yet unidentified hazardous objects… Vero Rubin Observatory will observe large parts of the sky… deflection tested by NASA’s DART probe [+] Universe Today: Evan Gough

Star Fleet Multiple companies pursuing reusable robotic orbital manufacturing platforms [+] SpaceNews: Jason Rainbow

Star Fleet Navigating on the Moon: Lunar global positioning system, LunaNet, and mapping of Lunar landmarks using the power of artificial intelligence [+] Universe Today: Carolyn Petersen

UFO Alien Ships Ten UFO headline stories in 2022: better technology and funding for understanding UFOs, declassification of UFO reports, search for Alien artifacts, exoplanets... and more [+] Space.com: Robert Lea

Star Fleet Space elevators would save energy and reduce the cost of space transportation… may be reality within decades, aerospace engineer believes [+] Scientific American: Stephen Cohen

Star Fleet Exploration of the surface of the dark side of the Moon will require new power generation options [+] Universe Today: Matt Williams

Alien Sky Highlights of exoplanet discoveries during 2022 [+] Space.com: Charles Choi

Mars Red Planet Wintery landscape offered by European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express images of Ultimi Scopuli region near the south pole of Mars [+] European Space Agency

ET Alien Buff Ledge UFO Incident of 1969: Two youth camp leaders abducted, telling matching accounts under hypnosis… multiple witnesses recounted lights in the sky when the abductions occurred… vacationers reported similar, independent incident [+] Infinity Explorers: Ansh Srivastava

UFO Alien Ships National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) signed by U.S. President Joe Biden includes provisions to protect UFO whistleblowers and expands investigations by the Department of Defense All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) [+] The Debrief: Micah Hanks

UFO Alien Ships Hypothesis to explain the Star of Bethlehem include a comet, a new star, conjunction of planets, or a UFO [+] Infinity Explorers: Ansh Srivastava

ET Alien Very large spacecraft traveling at high speed would produce space-time ripples that could be detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) [+] Space.com: Ben Turner

Star Fleet China outlines space strategy – to become a comprehensive space power by 2045: Crewed Lunar landing, space transportation infrastructure, reusable smart spacecraft, space telecommunication and global positioning systems, the International Lunar Research Station [+] SpaceNews: Andrew Jones

Alien Sky Saturn’s ice-covered water world Moon Enceladus may harbor life – new mission outlined by the University of Arizona proposes flying a space probe through plumes of salt water erupting from surface in search for life … one of the most promising worlds for life in our Solar System [+] The Debrief: Christopher Plain

Star Fleet China National Space Administration (CNSA) 2025 Chang’e 6 mission to collect and return to Earth Lunar material from the far side of the Moon… also to carry four international instruments: the Negative Ions at the Lunar Surface (NILS(opens in new tab)) from the Swedish Institute for Space Physics; Detection of Outgassing Radon (DORN) of the French space agency CNES; a laser retroreflector from the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics-Frascati National Labs (INFN-LNF); and the ICUBE-Q for Pakistan [+] Space.com: Andrew Jones

Alien Sky National Science Foundation’s Vera Rubin Observatory may help solve mystery of Planet 9… capable of observing large portions of sky… may provide view of more than six million objects in our Solar System [+] Inverse: John Wenz

Star Fleet Five present and planned space stations representing 50 years of orbital platforms: the currently in orbit International Space Station (ISS) and the Chinese Tiangong Space Station; the planned Blue Origin and Sierra Reef Orbital Reef space station; NASA Starlab; and Luna Gateway, part of the Artemis program, to orbit around the Moon, planned by NASA, ESA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the Canadian Space Agency [+] The Universe. Space. Tech

Mars Red Planet NASA Perseverance Mars Rover drops first cache of Martian soil sample in titanium tube… collected from old river delta and to be tested for microbial life back on Earth… Perseverance keeps one sample on board, and deposits second on Mars surface as backup [+] Space.com: Elizabeth Howell

Alien Sky Planet 9 may be one or more black holes in orbit around our Sun beyond Pluto, Harvard scientists theorize [+] Inverse: Mr. X

Star Fleet With NASA’s unmanned Artemis I mission complete, NASA plans for Artemis II… to spend half as long in space… will carry crew… like Artemis I, Artemis II will prepare for Lunar landing, planned for Artemis III [+] Inverse: Doris Urrutia

Star Fleet Solar-powered satellites to power space mining operations? Not yet economical, researcher calculates [+] Universe Today: Andy Tomaswick

Mars Red Planet NASA InSight Mars lander has stopped communicating with Earth… NASA officially retires mission… on Mars since November 2018… detected 1,319 quakes on Mars… last selfie taken in April 2022 [+] NASA: Fox, Johnson, Good

ET Alien Scientists hypothesize that advanced intelligent life has transitioned to machine life, hibernating until the universe cools as it expands... may provide explanation to the Fermi paradox [+] Futurism: Tom Ward

Alien Sky Strange objects orbiting massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way… exhibit attributes of gas clouds and also binary stars [+] Inverse: Passant Rabie

Star Fleet First South Korean robotic Lunar orbiter, Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) enters orbit [+] SpaceNews: Park Si-soo

UFO Alien Ships Defense Department All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) announces that they have received UFO reports from multiple government agencies, in the air, underwater, and in space… several hundred reports received since last update in May [+] Mail Online: Boswell, Sharp

Mars Red Planet Wind power feasible on Mars based on climate models, study finds [+] Vice: Becky Ferreira

UFO Alien Ships UFO Insight provides a history of UFO sightings across the world in the 1940s… including crashes and UFOs being fired upon… UFOs in formation [+] UFO Insight: Marcus Lowth

ET Alien Search for biosignatures and technosignatures being used to look for Alien civilizations across the galaxy, including SETI search for detecting radio emissions… signals of interest in the narrowband detected by the Green Bank Telescope [+] The Debrief: Micah Hanks

Alien Sky Two watery exoplanets discovered in the constellation Lyra, 218 light-years from Earth, in the Kepler-138 system [+] CNN: Zoe Sottile

UFO Alien Ships The modern UFO era starting after WWII saw multiple encounters of various craft: cigar-shaped, spheres, and discs… including apparent crashes, multiple recorded sightings by military personnel, UFO discs sighted all over the world [+] UFO Insight: Marcus Lowth

Star Fleet Asteroids offer good possibilities for building outposts in space… contain resources needed for construction and operation… adding artificial spin would create gravity… rubble pile asteroids could be encased by a containment structure [+] Universe Today: Brian Koberlein

Mars Red Planet Mars Human landing site selection considerations: access to subsurface water or hydrated minerals, low altitude to help slow descending landing module, minimum levels of toxic dust, lower latitudes for maximum solar energy and to take maximum advantage of planetary spin for launches back to Earth [+] NASA: Davis, Cho, McDonald, O'Brien, Parks

Alien Sky Exoplanet WASP-39b atmosphere found to contain carbon dioxide, water vapor – and sodium and carbon monoxide… clouds of silicates and sulfites [+] Science Alert: Michelle Starr

Star Fleet Company plans orbital manufacturing platform... to be assembled robotically... potential for collecting and recycling space debris [+] Spacenews: Sandra Erwin

Star Fleet Modern rockets had their beginnings over 2,000 years ago; NASA provides a brief history of rocket development [+] NASA

Star Fleet Nuclear fusion has multiple potential use cases for spacecraft propulsion... including direct fusion propulsion ... lighter, more compact systems needed for nuclear thermal rocket [+] Space.com: Leonard David

Mars Red Planet Success of NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter will lead to more planetary aircraft for the exploration of Mars and other worlds, such as Saturn’s moon Titan [+] Space.com: Rebecca Sohn

Alien Sky Life may survive on cold exoplanet water worlds under ice sheets… subglacial water may be created from ice through basal melting, would provide contact with rocks and minerals, while layer of ice provides protection from cosmic radiaion [+] Universe Today: Evan Gough

Alien Sky Largest known galaxy identified: Alcyoneus, 3 billion light years distant… 16.3 million light years across [+] Science Alert: Michelle Starr

Mars Red Planet NASA Perseverance Mars Rover has captured the sound of a dust devil on Mars [+] NASA: Roger Wiens

Alien Sky Two exoplanets discovered orbiting red dwarf Luyten/Palomar 890-9… one may have a moderate temperature comparable to Earth [+] Syfy: Phil Plait

Star Fleet U.S. National Ignition Facility has achieved a controlled nuclear fusion reaction that emits more energy than is consumes [+] Nature: Jeff Tollefson, Elizabeth Gibney

ET Alien Advanced, long-lived extraterrestrial civilizations may have sent probes to thousands of stars and potentially our Solar System... likely would go undetected using conventional observation methods and technology [+] The Debrief: Avi Loeb

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