Archive for the 'Space' Category
Starshield: Classified Network of SpaceX Satellites Emitting Mysterious Signal
October 17th, 2025Via: NPR: A constellation of classified defense satellites built by the commercial company SpaceX is emitting a mysterious signal that may violate international standards, NPR has learned. Satellites associated with the Starshield satellite network appear to be transmitting to the Earth’s surface on frequencies normally used for doing the exact opposite: sending commands from Earth […]
Jason Jorjani Interviewed by Jesse Michels: Aliens, Religions, Simulation Hypothesis, Physics, Mind Control
October 8th, 2025Unless you’ve been wading out in the deep end for at least a couple of decades, you might want to skip this. I wouldn’t normally post something like this, but I was three quarters of the way through a re-read of Passport to Magonia when I saw this at the top of my YouTube feed. […]
NASA Plans First Crewed Moon Mission in 50 Years for February 2026
September 23rd, 2025Hmm… Via: BBC: Nasa has said it hopes to send astronauts on a ten-day trip around the Moon as soon as February. The US space agency had previously committed to launching no later than the end of April but said it aims to bring the mission forward. It’s been 50 years since any country has […]
NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year
September 11th, 20252019: Former NASA Scientist Believes Viking Mission Found Life on Mars in 1976 Via: NASA: A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life. Taken from a rock named “Cheyava Falls” last year, the sample, called “Sapphire Canyon,” contains potential biosignatures, […]
SpaceX: Starship’s Tenth Flight Test
August 27th, 2025If you have any interest in this type of thing, it’s all extremely impressive. Watch Starship's tenth flight test ? https://t.co/UIwbeGoo2B https://t.co/BFrpQPQFUw — SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 26, 2025
NASA to Announce Expedited Plans “To Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon”
August 5th, 2025[???] Via: Politico: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, the first major action by the former Fox News host as the interim NASA administrator. NASA has discussed building a reactor on the lunar surface, but this would set a more definitive timeline — […]
Shortest Day in History
July 2nd, 2025Via: Daily Mail: A scientist has warned that Earth’s rotation is unexpectedly accelerating, leading to the shortest day in history in just a few weeks. Graham Jones, an astrophysicist at the University of London, says Earth’s rotation could speed up noticeably on one of three dates this summer, either July 9, July 22, or August […]
Strange Radio Pulses Detected Coming from Ice in Antarctica
June 15th, 2025Via: PennState: A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle physics, according to an international research group that includes scientists from Penn State. The unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, a range of instruments flown on […]
Newly Identified Cosmic Object Sends Out Blast of Radio Waves and X-Rays Every 44 Minutes
May 30th, 2025Via: Study Finds: Something deep in the Milky Way is pulsing like clockwork, and no one knows what it is. Every 44 minutes, a mysterious space object nearly 15,000 light-years away sends out a blast of radio waves and high-energy X-rays, defying everything astronomers thought they knew about how stars behave. It’s not a pulsar, […]
Trump Announces Golden Dome Missile Shield
May 21st, 2025[???] Via: The War Zone: The Golden Dome missile defense system will cost about $175 billion and be operational “in less than three years” with “a success rate close to 100%,” President Donald Trump declared Tuesday afternoon as he shared new details about his ambitious, very expensive, and controversial missile defense shield for the U.S. […]
