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Fourth planet in the Solar System from the Sun
NASA and other analysts say the Van Allen radiation belts are a real hazard but not an impenetrable barrier: Apollo crews crossed them quickly, through thinner regions, and received relatively low dos...
Recent reporting and NGO work show that child labor remains embedded in many global supply chains — notably cocoa, textiles and food processing — and that both major brands and their suppliers have be...
Mars hosts the largest known volcano in the Solar System: Olympus Mons, a shield volcano about 21–22 km high and roughly 370–700 km across, covering some 300,000 km² — far larger than any terrestrial ...
Apollo-returned lunar rocks differ from Earth rocks in age, formation history, mineralogy and surface processing: Apollo missions returned 382 kg of samples that are mostly igneous (basalts and anorth...
Avi Loeb argues that multiple anomalous features of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS collectively point toward a possible artificial origin rather than a purely natural cometary body. His core evidence se...
Avi Loeb has publicly argued that 3I/ATLAS displays multiple “anomalies” — including non-gravitational acceleration, unusually long collimated jets/anti-tail behavior, rapid brightening and unusual co...
Avi Loeb has pointed to a set of observational anomalies—primarily a measured non-gravitational acceleration, unusual brightness and color behavior, and an atypical orbital geometry—as the basis for t...
Astronomers first recognized Olympus Mons as a bright albedo patch called Nix Olympica in 19th‑century telescopic maps, but its true size and nature — a 600–700 km wide shield volcano rising ~21–22 km...
The short answer to "why don't we go back to the Moon?" is that we already are planning and executing a return: , but the effort faces technical, budgetary, and schedule challenges that make the timel...
Hydrogen‑rich, low‑Z (low atomic number) materials — notably polyethylene, water/ice, and hydrogenated composites — are the most effective passive shields against galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) because t...
3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet discovered by ATLAS in July 2025 that reached perihelion around Oct. 29–30, 2025 at roughly 1.4 AU from the Sun and made a closest approach to Earth of about 1.8 AU o...
The recent media swirl contrasts two very different visitors: interstellar 3I/ATLAS — widely discussed as “weird” and even possibly artificial by some commentators — and the Solar System newcomer C/20...
Available reporting shows 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet that passed perihelion on 29–30 October 2025 and has been observed moving away from the Sun at high speed; mainstream agencies describe it a...
There is no credible, sourced evidence that Elon Musk has "created a bunker to house his 11 wives and multiple children"; reporting instead documents rumors about a large Texas family compound and bro...
Buzz Aldrin’s December 2016 trip to the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station cast him as both an explorer and an evangelist for human missions beyond Earth, making him the oldest person to reach the Sout...
3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet that passed perihelion on about 29–30 October 2025 and made relatively close passes to Mars and Venus (roughly 29 million km from Mars on 3 October and ~97 million km...
Recent peer-reviewed and mission reports show strong evidence that Mars once held abundant liquid water on its surface and underground billions of years ago, and new studies argue that small amounts o...
Elon Musk has not definitively abandoned plans for Mars; public statements and SpaceX briefings in 2025 continue to present an active roadmap that targets , while rival accounts—principally Peter Thie...