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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...
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....
mission explicitly marketed as providing higher surface-resolution mapping than is scheduled for 2026 in the reporting provided; LRO continues to deliver sub‑meter imagery and is expected to operate t...
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...
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 “...
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...
What "" can mean is both literal — a photo or live feed of the planet — and contextual: where that picture came from and what it tells us; authoritative galleries and missions have supplied those view...
The claim that “the Earth is plain” (i.e., flat) is false: a large and convergent body of evidence from ancient observations to modern satellite data shows Earth is an oblate spheroid, not a flat plan...
The 2025 search zone was delineated using a suite of new satellite inputs and drift‑aware modeling techniques that explicitly follow ice parcels ( tracking), fuse multi‑sensor motion products, and pro...
Most of the universe — roughly 95% by mass–energy — is in forms astronomers cannot see directly: about 27% is dark matter and about 68% is dark energy, leaving familiar atoms at only ~5% . The reason ...
Satellite imagery does show very — including dense contrail corridors and multi‑thousand‑kilometre — but the reporting and imagery reviewed do not document a single continuous streak that literally sp...
A patchwork of national agencies, dedicated forecasting centers, coordinating bodies, and laws now underpins and mitigation, but capabilities remain uneven and dependent on aging sensors and cross‑sec...
are bursts of electromagnetic energy from the that, when strong and -directed, can disrupt technology and create spectacular auroras, but they do not pose a direct acute danger to people on the planet...