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3I/ATLAS is a real, observed interstellar comet first spotted by the ATLAS survey on 1 July 2025; space telescopes including Hubble and JWST have imaged and measured it (e.g., Hubble imaged it at abou...
The statement "No human has ever left Earth’s atmosphere" is of where atmosphere ends (the Kármán line at ~100 km or the US 80 km convention), because humans have crossed those boundaries on multiple ...
Scientific observations and expert analysis conclude that 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet exhibiting natural cometary behaviour—outgassing, coma formation, and a hyperbolic trajectory—rather than en...
India’s Chandrayaan‑3 mission achieved a , making the Indian Space Research Organisation the first to land at those latitudes and the fourth national agency to perform a controlled lunar soft landing....
Claims that a “real” NASA image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was leaked and shows a spacecraft-like or “horrific” structure are circulating widely online; reporting across outlets describes the imag...
NASA’s FY2025 budget request is roughly , while the European Space Agency’s (ESA) preliminary 2025 budget is about ; on a dollar-to-dollar basis. The gap reflects different mandates and funding models...
The claim that 3I/ATLAS is an alien spaceship is false based on the weight of current astronomical evidence: multiple observatories and space agencies characterize 3I/ATLAS as an interstellar comet sh...
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...
Available reporting shows 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet confirmed to be brightening unexpectedly as it passed perihelion on 29 October 2025 and then “speeding away” from the Sun; multiple outlets ...
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...
The claim that "signals from 3I/ATLAS disabled every nuclear-powered submarine on Earth for 14 minutes" is unsupported by the provided reporting: the sensational assertion appears on a Nairaland forum...
Stars are overwhelmingly concentrated inside galaxies — vast islands of gas, dust and stars such as the Milky Way, which itself contains on the order of 100 billion stars — and beyond that the observa...
Flat-Earth communities offer several competing explanations for what mainstream science calls satellites: some say there are no spaceborne satellites and signals come from ground infrastructure or a “...
The Van Allen belts are two (and sometimes temporary additional) doughnut-shaped zones of charged particles trapped by Earth’s magnetic field; the inner belt is proton-dominated and the outer belt is ...
The "Eye of the Sahara" is the Richat Structure, a roughly 50-kilometre-wide circular geological dome in central Mauritania that looks like a bull’s‑eye from space and has been a familiar astronaut la...
“Sky ice” is a phrase that appears in several contexts in the recent sources: it can mean frozen water in the night sky (ice on comets and interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS), ice-related phenomena in Eart...
U.S. regulators and international bodies maintain a patchwork of aircraft emissions rules, sectoral standards for engines and new airplanes, and extensive ambient and satellite monitoring programs to ...
Commercial satellite imagery providers including Maxar, Planet and the Copernicus Sentinels routinely publish photos that analysts use to identify blast craters, damaged structures and ship losses; ne...
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...
Reported size estimates for interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during 2023–2025 vary widely: Hubble-based papers and major press summaries place the nucleus diameter between roughly 320 meters and 5.6 kilome...