Claim: NASA technology has discovered a ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet that emits ‘strange signals’. Rating: Rating: Mostly true What is true: Scientists using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite have discovered an exoplanet, which NASA defines as any planet beyond our solar system. What is fake: However, the phrase “strange signals” came from reports and social media posts … Read more
Claim: A secret NASA document titled “Project Anchor” surfaced in November 2024, revealing that the agency believed Earth would “lose gravity” for seven seconds on August 12, 2026. Rating: Rating: false In early January 2026, a rumor circulated online that the Earth would “lose gravity” for seven seconds on August 12, 2026 – leading to … Read more
Four astronauts are on the verge of becoming the first humans to venture near the moon in more than half a century since the end of NASA’s iconic Apollo era. As early as February, the crew of a mission known as Artemis 2 will board the US space agency’s Orion capsule atop NASA’s Space Launch … Read more
The most sensational story of the year for astronomers was the discovery of comet 3I/ATLAS, which was first observed on July 1, 2025 by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Although comets pass by Earth regularly, the most famous being Halley’s Comet, there is something extra special about this new discovery. Halley and other … Read more
Weeks after a rare interstellar comet made its closest pass to the Sun, it will make its closest pass to Earth. Comet 3I/ATLAS was first discovered in July by a regular survey of the sky by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Alert System (ATLAS), after which the comet was named. The name “3I” means “third interstellar” … Read more
The universe has no shortage of mysteries, many of which have puzzled us for centuries. One of the biggest is the existence of something called dark matter. First theorized in 1933 by Fritz Zwicky, dark matter is a theoretical type of matter that cannot be seen because it does not interact with light or any … Read more