New research examines how misinformation threatens planetary defense and public trust

by quasarn01 | May 18, 2026 | Astronomy

As misinformation spreads faster than ever across digital platforms, new research highlights growing risks to public understanding of planetary defense, an area of science that deals with the threat from asteroid and comet impacts, with potentially global...

The Underwater Alien Bases That Destroy Every Vessel That Gets Too Close: Devil’s Sea, Lake Baikal, Catalina

by quasarn01 | May 18, 2026 | Ufos

From the Devil’s Sea off Japan to Lake Baikal in Siberia, from the Santa Catalina Channel off California to the Pacific waters where the USS Omaha confronted a transmedium craft — there are bodies of water where vessels do not return. The pattern, and the...

Findings reconsider the existence of Europa’s vapor plumes

by quasarn01 | May 18, 2026 | Astronomy

Looking back at 14 years of Hubble telescope data for Jupiter’s moon Europa has given Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists a better understanding of its tenuous atmosphere. The findings have cast doubt on previous evidence suggesting that the icy moon...

Is Earth’s constant companion a stray asteroid or a chunk of the moon?

by quasarn01 | May 18, 2026 | Astronomy

Earth has a group of cosmic stalkers. Known as “co-orbitals,” these small bits of rock have a 1:1 mean motion resonance with Earth. Basically, they take the exact same amount of time to orbit the sun as we do. Astronomers have long believed these objects...

Hubble reveals rare galaxy 100 million light-years away caught in transition

by quasarn01 | May 18, 2026 | Astronomy

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an enigmatic galaxy with a bright center and a face that hints at spiral structure, yet it holds no obvious spiral arms. Reddish-brown clumps and filaments of dust partially obscure the galaxy’s full face, while...