The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.

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Scientists studying Mars rocks have found a metal-rich mineral. This raised news question about whether the red planet once ...

In March 2026, SETI Institute researchers contributed to a wide range of conversations about our solar system and the search ...

As the New Scientist Book Club reads Kim Stanley Robinson’s science-fiction novel in April, George Bass digs into why this ...

New research suggests that the thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars could hold the key to understanding whether the Red Planet ever harbored life. These layers, thought to have formed ...

From Calle’s habitat, known as MDRS, the cotton candy sky against the red rocks of the Western United States “felt like Mars, ...

Call it Spud-nick. An image of a tentacled growth in space has caused an uproar online with freaked-out viewers imploring ...

A new scientific framework suggests that even if signals or physical traces from alien civilizations reached Earth, detecting ...

A three-sided formation spotted in Nasa imagery is drawing comparisons to the Great Pyramid of Giza. Researchers say the real culprit is rather more mundane ...

As technologies to grow food in space see increasing popularity, NASA astronaut Don Pettit sheds more light on his space ...