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For decades, sightings clustered near bases and nuclear sites fed a theory that something is monitoring our weapons. NASA's 2023 study team found the pattern mostly reflects where the cameras, radars, and trained observers are - a reporting bias, not a beacon.
For decades, any scientist who took UFOs seriously risked their career. A former NASA senior official says the agency didn't mean to build that wall - but helped build it anyway. Here's the history, and what's changing.
The first PURSUE release included official NASA post-mission debriefs from Apollo 11, 12, and 17 in which trained astronauts logged unexplained sightings - from an object near the Moon to three lights photographed in triangular formation above the lunar surface.
A committee including a former NASA senior official and the first Chief Scientist of the Pentagon's UAP unit will use AI to mine NASA's public archive - acting on a 2023 NASA recommendation no government agency had yet implemented.
NASA's TESS mission has confirmed two Jupiter-sized planets orbiting a star 1,110 light-years away that are so diffuse they are lighter than cotton candy, setting a new density record for gas giants.
The nearly 18,000-pound observatory completed its barge journey from Maryland to Florida on June 21, beginning weeks of fuelling, solar panel tests, and clean-room checks before its August 30 target launch.
The Lucy spacecraft's 2025 flyby of a main-belt asteroid has produced a detailed portrait of a doubly-tumbling, bilobate rock with iron-rich clays - evidence of liquid water from 155 million years ago.
A commercial robotic spacecraft is days from launching to perform the first-ever in-orbit servicing of an uncrewed U.S. government telescope - potentially extending Swift's mission into the 2030s.
Four astronauts will spend two weeks in Earth orbit docking with both SpaceX Starship and Blue Origin's Blue Moon pathfinders - a critical rehearsal before the first crewed lunar landing on Artemis IV in 2028.
After five decades of overland supersonic flight being banned in the United States, NASA's experimental X-59 aircraft achieved Mach 1.1 on June 5, 2026 - a milestone that could let future passengers experience only a quiet thump instead of a disruptive boom.
NASA confirmed August 30, 2026 as the launch date for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - eight months early. The wide-field infrared observatory will survey 100 million stars and is expected to catalogue approximately 2,500 new exoplanets.
Sensor artifacts, data gaps, and rigorous methodology - what does it really take to turn a puzzling sky sighting into a scientifically useful data point? Researchers explain.
