The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.
Astronomy on MSN
Could this telescope find life on alien worlds?
The ExoLife Finder (ELF) looks like no telescope ever built. A spectacular crown of 15 five-meter mirrors perches atop a ...
An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps ...
Isaac Arthur on MSNOpinion
The future was supposed to be alien worlds - until we started building better ones
For generations, humanity imagined its future among the stars as a search for new planets to colonize. But this episode turns ...
Alien, a startup looking to build trust infrastructure for the internet as the era of artificial intelligence agents changes ...
These findings suggest that the absence of past detections does not mean discovery is imminent. If extraterrestrial ...
New Scientist on MSN
Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens'
As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...
An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps ...
A strange, tentacled object that went viral online was revealed to be a space-grown purple potato. Astronaut Don Pettit ...
PRIMETIMER on MSN
Arrival ending explained: How does Louise know the future?
Arrival ending explained explores how Louise knows the future, what the heptapods mean, and why she still chooses Hannah ...
SETI Institute researchers suggest solar winds may have obscured alien signals by widening their frequency bands, potentially causing us to miss evidence of extraterrestrial life. This discovery, ...
Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.
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