An unusual collaboration between Kyoto University and Japanese homebuilder Sumitomo Forestry has delivered the world’s first orbital satellite made primarily of wood to the International Space Station, as the focus of an experiment that may herald the end of the use of aluminum as the main ingredient in spacecraft construction.read more
Earth may have had a Saturn-like system of rings in the distant past, according to a recent study that suggests that our home planet may have possessed such a magnificent feature. Typically associated with the Solar System’s large outer planets, the temporary presence of these rings may explain not onlyread more
The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office has released the unclassified version of their annual report for 2024, the second such report released since the office’s establishment in July 2022, and the first since the departure of the office’s controversial head, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, in December of last year, with Dr. Jonread more
A series of emails sent between Canadian military leaders discussing the release of an image of one of the mysterious balloons shot down over North America during February 2023 has been released, including not only a description of the object, but also a copy of the image in question—along withread more