NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of boxwork formations—the low ridges seen here with hollows in between them—using its Mastcam on Sept. 26, 2025, the 4,671st Martian day (sol) of the mission. These boxwork formations were created billions of years ago when water leaked through rock cracks. Minerals carried into the cracks later hardened; after eons of windblown sand eroding away the softer rock, the hardened ridges were left exposed.
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Six planets are linking up in the sky at the end of February, and most will be visible to the naked eye.
 Bill Nelson, 78, the former Florida senator and spaceflight veteran, became the NASA Administrator on May 3, 2021. One month later, Bill Nelson has directed NASA to study UFOS (or UAPs). Notably, the push comes as a much-anticipated UAP report is due to Congress. In 1986, Nelson flew on the 24th flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia, conducting 12 medical experiments. During a CNN interview with Rachel Crane, Nelson claimed that NASA doesn’t know what the authentic UFOs observed by Navy pilots and equipment could be. Now, he’s quickly leading scientific efforts into the phenomena.
Leading UFO Research with ScienceLeading with science and evidence is also how former Nevada senator Harry Reid proposes approaching UFO research. In a recent op-ed in the Times, Reid, the man who created the clandestine Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), wrote:
Now, NASA could have more funds for scientific inquiry. In the budget for 2022, President Biden has requested a 6.6% increase for NASA science. No Formal NASA UFO Task Force?Although Bill Nelson is pushing for scientific research, NASA press secretary Jackie McGuinness says Nelson “did not establish a formal task force,” per CNN. Interestingly, McGuinness cited American’s interest in the subject as a reason why NASA scientists are taking a new approach.
In response to the news about NASA, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon called the news “wonderful and unexpected news of scientific open-mindedness.” Then, he notes “potential” for NASA’s collaboration with the Intelligence Community. Bill Nelson isn’t Ruling out ExtraterrestrialsWhen Rachel Crane asked Bill Nelson, “Do you think we have been contacted by extraterrestrials?” he deflected to talking about the Navy pilot’s experience. Although Nelson denies knowledge of extraterrestrials, he doesn’t rule it out, saying he doesn’t know if it’s ETs, an enemy, or an optical phenomenon.
Then, Crane pushed again, asking Nelson directly, “What do you think it is? What’s your personal take on it?” A smiling Nelson replied:
“What have they said to you?” asked Crane.
Then, Nelson claims that NASA won’t be working directly with the Pentagon on the upcoming UAP report but said, “I can guarantee you if we find something, the Pentagon will want to know.” The UAP ReportAccording to recent reports, current and former government officials say military and spy agencies are “blocking or simply ignoring the effort,” to create a UAP report that may come this month. Meanwhile, the Navy-led Pentagon task force, now called The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, or UAPTF, reportedly has few personnel or resources to gather any evidence. Now, it looks like NASA is not directly contributing to the public report, a notable omission, although they are seeing a budget increase. Hopefully, there is potential for a collaboration sometime in the future, as Mellon suggests? Right now, it doesn’t seem to be happening – at least not publicly. For those who have long accused NASA of covering up the truth about extraterrestrials, it comes across as curious. However, tomorrow is a new day, and who knows what may happen next? Recommended: Did a ‘Galactic Federation’ Ask Trump Not To Reveal Extraterrestrials? For more by this author, follow The Gamut and The Cosmic Web on Facebook. See the Bill Nelson interview via CNN: Featured image: Screenshots via YouTube/CNN A man armed with a gun entered a barbershop and began shooting at customers and employees; he was fatally shot by an off-duty Austin Police officer
For the first time, a much younger version of the sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy by astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bubble—called an “astrosphere”—completely surrounds the juvenile star. Winds from the star’s surface are blowing up the bubble and filling it with hot gas as it expands into much cooler galactic gas and dust surrounding the star. The sun has a similar bubble around it, which scientists call the heliosphere, created by the solar wind. It extends far beyond the planets in our solar system and protects Earth from damaging particles from interstellar space.
At Rice University, a research lab’s signature keepsake has helped perfect a method for growing patterned diamond surfaces that could help decrease operating temperatures in electronics by 23 degrees Celsius. The paper is published in the journal Applied Physics Letters.
Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key chemical precursors to life, could have been incorporated into Jupiter’s Galilean moons during their formation. The team’s findings have resulted in complementary studies published in The Planetary Science Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, offering new insights into the potential for life in the Jovian system.
LEDs no wider than a human hair could soon take on work traditionally handled by lasers, from moving data inside server racks to powering next-generation displays. New research co-authored by UC Santa Barbara doctoral student Roark Chao points to a practical path forward. The study is published in the journal Optics Express.
Scientists have observed a new microscopic mechanism enabling precise control of the magneto-optical properties of excitons in alloys of two-dimensional semiconductors. This discovery opens up tangible prospects for technological applications in devices exploiting valleytronics. The research findings were published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
For about six months, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring a region full of geologic formations called boxwork, low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy hollows in between. Crisscrossing the surface for miles, the formations suggest ancient groundwater flowed on this part of the red planet later than scientists expected. This possibility raises new questions about how long microbial life could have survived on Mars billions of years ago, before rivers and lakes dried up and left a freezing desert world behind.
New observations of Ganymede reveal a striking similarity between the auroras on the largest moon in the solar system and those on Earth. The international team of astrophysicists, led by researchers from the University of Liège, has produced new results indicating that, despite different conditions, the fundamental physical processes that generate auroras are common to different celestial bodies, and not just planets.
Our solar system hosts almost 900 known moons; more than 400 orbit the eight planets while the remaining orbit dwarf planets, asteroids, and Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). Of these, only a handful are targets for astrobiology and could potentially support life as we know it, including Jupiter’s moons Europa and Ganymede, and Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus. While these moons orbit two of the largest planets in our solar system, what about moons orbiting giant exoplanets, also called exomoons? But, to find life on exomoons, scientists need to find exomoons to begin with.
Light powers everything from communications to sensing, yet even tiny imperfections can scatter it and weaken signals. To address this, a team led by the University of Bath—working with the University of Cambridge and international partners—has developed a new structure that keeps light flowing smoothly even through bends, twists or damage, with the potential to operate over unprecedented distances.
LVMPD Officer Skeeter Black responded when “JetBlue” was abandoned; Black ensured the pup received care and later completed the adoption through Retriever Rescue of Las Vegas
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new exoplanet orbiting a distant star known as TIC-65910228. The newfound alien world is slightly larger and nearly five times more massive than Jupiter. The discovery was reported in a paper published Feb. 13 on the arXiv pre-print server.
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