Interstellar

Something much closer to home may be behind the seismic signals purported to be caused by an interstellar meteor falling to Earth 10 years ago.Last year, the meteor made headlines when a team of scientists visited what they considered to be the impact location of the space rock and dredged tiny spherules from the seafloor; debris, they speculated, that contains evidence of alien technology.A new problem with that claim has now arisen. Seismic monitoring data used to track the hypothetical object's path into the sea off…

Researchers led by Johns Hopkins University have debunked claims that sound waves from a 2014 meteor fireball were responsible for vibrations near Papua New Guinea, revealing the actual cause to be a truck. This discovery casts doubt on the supposed recovery of “alien materials” from the ocean floor related to the meteor, with further analysis showing the materials to be ordinary meteorites or terrestrial contaminants.Sound waves thought to be from a 2014 meteor fireball north of Papua New Guinea were almost certainly…

The saga of Avi Loeb’s alien materials claim continues. Loeb claims that small balls found at the bottom of the ocean are alien in nature and are made of materials not found anywhere in our solar system. However, new findings could debunk an important factor for the claims of alien technology.Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have taken a closer look at an “interstellar” signal used by Loeb to help aid in the search for alien debris in the ocean. Sound waves believed to have been made by a meteor…

Interstellar travel is only something humanity has achieved in science fiction — like Star Trek's USS Enterprise, which used antimatter engines to travel across star systems.But antimatter isn't just a sci-fi trope. Antimatter really exists. Elon Musk has called antimatter power "the ticket for interstellar journeys," and physicists like Ryan Weed are exploring how to harness it.Antimatter is made up of particles almost exactly like regular matter but with opposite electric charge. That means when antimatter contacts…

On October 19th, 2017, astronomers with the Pan-STARRS survey detected an interstellar object (ISO) passing through our Solar System for the first time. The object, known as 1I/2017 U1 Oumuamua, stimulated significant scientific debate and is still controversial today.One thing that all could agree on was that the detection of this object indicated that ISOs regularly enter our Solar System. What's more, subsequent research has revealed that, on occasion, some of these objects come to Earth as meteorites and impact the…

Christopher Nolan, a very well-known name in the entire world of filmmaking, he is one of the first-rated filmmakers in the world. He has created the finest content pieces, like “Inception”, “Memento”, “Insomnia”, “The Prestige” and a very recent movie, “Oppenheimer”. Many actors from Hollywood as well as Bollywood are willing to work with Nolan. But only a few get this opportunity. And our beloved Irrfan Khan was one of them. Well, things really couldn’t work well and we missed this outstanding collaboration. …

IMAP will study the protective magnetic bubble that surrounds our solar system, called the heliosphere, and the particle acceleration that occurs across it. Credit: NASA/Princeton/Johns Hopkins APL/Josh Diaz IMAP, set for launch in late April to May 2025, marks a key phase in space exploration, focusing on mapping solar wind interactions and the heliosphere’s boundary. This NASA-led mission, with broad international collaboration, also features a unique public live feed of its development. The Interstellar Mapping and…

Posted in: Comics, Heritage Sponsored, Vintage Paper | Tagged: Harvey Comics, pre-code horrorTomb of Terror #16 from Harvey Comics in 1954 features an unusual mix of science fiction and horror behind a lurid Lee Elias cover.Many Harvey comics began with an editorial at the front of the comic book during this 1950s era, and Tomb of Terror #16 started like this: "Dig in a messy grave, and you'd find terror, wouldn't you? Well, that's what we offer! Crawl through a dark dungeon with time-gnawed walls and you're bound to come…

Avi Loeb, a physicist from Harvard University in the US, has recovered 50 tiny spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that he claims may be material from an interstellar alien spaceship.Loeb is linking his finding with the passage of a fireball in January 2014. The meteor was observed by sensors of the US Department of Defense that track all objects entering the Earth's atmosphere. It was recorded as travelling faster than most meteors and eventually broke up over the South Pacific Ocean near Papua…

Space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has started construction on a large nuclear fusion chamber in England, as it races to become the first firm to fire a nuclear fusion-powered propulsion system in space. Nuclear fusion propulsion tech, arguably a golden goose of the space industry, could reduce the travel time to Mars by half and cut the travel time to Titan, Saturn’s moon, to two years instead of 10. It sounds like science fiction, but Pulsar CEO Richard Dinan told TechCrunch in a recent interview that fusion…