The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.

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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 ...

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For generations, humanity imagined its future among the stars as a search for new planets to colonize. But this episode turns ...

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, ...