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>Triple Solar Storm Alert - X5 Solar Flare/BIG CME
Sun unleashes strongest solar flare of 2025, sparking radio blackouts across Africa and Europe
November 11, 2025
The sun erupted in spectacular fashion this morning (Nov. 11), unleashing a major X5.1-class solar flare, the strongest of 2025 so far and the most intense since October 2024.
The eruption peaked at 5 a.m. EST (1000 GMT) from sunspot AR4274, which has been bursting with activity in recent days.
The blast triggered strong (R3-level) radio blackouts across Africa and Europe, disrupting high-frequency radio communications on the sunlit side of Earth.
This outburst is the latest in a series of intense flares from AR4274, which also produced an X1.7 flare on Nov. 9 and an X1.2 on Nov. 10.
Those flares were accompanied by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that could combine and impact Earth overnight tonight, possibly triggering strong (G3) geomagnetic storm conditions and widespread auroras, according to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.
While analysis of today's eruption is ongoing, scientists are monitoring coronagraph data to determine whether the X5.1 launched a CME directly toward Earth.
With AR4274 in an Earth-facing position, any associated outburst is likely to be heading for us.
Solar flares are ranked by strength in five classes, A, B, C, M and X, with each step representing a tenfold increase in energy output.
X-class solar flares are the most powerful kind and the number following the X describes the flare's intensity. At X5.1, this latest eruption sits toward the top of the scale.
The eruption sent a surge of X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation toward Earth, ionizing the upper atmosphere and causing widespread radio signal degradation. Strong (R3) radio blackouts were recorded over Africa and Europe.
This active region has become one of the most prolific solar flare producers of Solar Cycle 25, marking a fiery peak in what's already been an extraordinary week for solar activity.
This is a developing story and will be updated later today as more data on the flare and associated CME becomes available.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/sun/sun-unleashes-strongest-solar-flare-of-2025-sparking-radio-blackouts-across-africa-and-europe
https://www.space.com/stargazing/auroras/northern-lights-may-be-visible-in-these-us-states-tonight-nov-10-to-12
https://www.space.com/live/aurora-forecast-will-the-northern-lights-be-visible-tonight
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
https://www.SpaceWeatherNews.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C71NfKEkvm4 (The Real BPEarthWatch: Strongest X Flare Of 2025 Incoming/G4 Solar Storm/CERN Update!)
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/as-the-government-shutdown-ends-can-nasa-please-release-the-40-day-old-hirise-images-of-3i-atlas-a7a37f3ec177
https://medium.com/@davidsereda/3i-atlas-exhibits-a-single-jet-at-26-3-f7f2efd1fb99
https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/11/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-aka-c-2025-n1-atlas-the-ion-tail-is-getting-longer-11-nov-2025/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15278077/signal-detected-interstellar-visitor-3I-ATLAS.html
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/avi-loebs-alien-anomalies-3i-atlas-are-statistical-quirks-expert-1754153
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/dr-michio-kaku-3i-atlas-top-physicist-counters-avi-loeb-alien-spacecraft-theory-its-garbage-1754089
https://usaherald.com/meerkat-radio-telescope-detects-the-first-confirmed-signal-from-3i-atlas-at-1665-1667-mhz-why-a-comet-is-a-perfect-natural-transmitter/
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3i-atlas-update-avi-loeb-claims-michio-kaku-trying-liked-wrote-no-scientific-papers-1754125
As the Government Shutdown Ends, Can NASA Please Release the 40-Day-Old HiRISE Images of 3I/ATLAS?
November 11, 2025
Lets be honest. We are born for a short time on a rock we call Earth, a tiny relic from the formation of a nearby star we call the Sun, which formed in the last third of cosmic history.
Most of the 100 billion stars in our Milky-Way galaxy formed billions of years before the Sun. Our record is not very impressive in the cosmic scheme of things.
There is a vast amount of space and time that we have never explored. We can learn new things as long as we maintain humility and an open mind.
The main threat to new knowledge is the arrogance of expertise. When I was asked yesterday by eight podcasters and reporters (including Gadi Schwartz on NBC News here and Elizabeth Vargas on NewsNation here), why comet experts are so dismissive of an alternative interpretation of the puzzling anomalies of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, I made an analogy between unimaginative scientists and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Both are saying things that reflect their training data sets.
If you were to train AI systems only on data regarding comets, they would argue that any object in the sky is a comet — irrespective of the anomalies it displays.
This is why 1I/Oumuamua is regarded by comet experts as adark comet’, namely a comet that does not display the characteristics of a comet: it exhibited non-gravitational acceleration without any trace of gas or dust around it.
The fact that space objects like 2020 SO which was launched by NASA or the Tesla Roadster Car which was launched by SpaceX, behave like dark comets because they are technological in origin, is irrelevant because comet experts refuse to include these examples in their training data set.
On top of that, we must add the Pavlovian resistance of experts to new ideas, as a means of protecting their turf of past knowledge.
These two elements explain the violent insistence of comet experts that the seven jets observed around 3I/ATLAS in recent days (as reviewed here) must have originated from sublimation of pockets of icy volatiles on a rock rather than thrusters on a spacecraft.
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Gladly, there is a better path forward.
In the coming weeks leading to the closest approach of 3I/ATLAS to Earth on December 19, 2025, we will be able to measure the speed, mass density and composition of these jets and search for multiple fragments from the fireworks of perihelion — as expected if 3I/ATLAS is a natural comet.
Seeking scientific data is key to learning the truth. By staying curious and humble while collecting clues in this detective story, science brings us together. When egos get in the way, politics and social media set us apart.
On October 2–3, 2025, the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took side images of 3I/ATLAS with 30 kilometers per pixel resolution, as 3I/ATLAS passed within 29 million kilometers from Mars.
Following the submission of an official letter to NASA (accessible here), the brilliant congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna tweeted the following message:
As the government shutdown is about to end, can NASA please release the data that was held hostage by politics for 40 days? Scientific knowledge should not be second in priority to bureaucracy.
The public interest in the mysteries of 3I/ATLAS is unprecedented. After the old dishwasher at my home broke down yesterday, I called the company to order a new one.
The attendant with whom I never spoke before recognized my voice and said: “Is this Avi Loeb? I have been following you in podcasts and television interviews about 3I/ATLAS.
It is a great honor to speak with you. What are the latest updates on 3I/ATLAS?”
Starting today, November 11, 2025, Earth-based observatories can focus again on 3I/ATLAS as its angular separation from the Sun grows beyond 30 degrees in the sky.
Yesterday, I placed an official bet with Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptics Society, that within five years (by December 31, 2030) there will be undisputable scientific evidence for a technological artifact from an extraterrestrial civilization.
The bet money will go to the non-profit Foundation of the Galileo Project — of which both Michael and I are members. My statement to the Long Now Foundation which is officiating the bet, reads as follows:
“The search for technological artifacts has just started in earnest in 2025 with the discovery of the anomalous interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, the launch of the Rubin Observatory and the construction of three Galileo Project Observatories.
Given that there are billions of Earth-Sun analogs in the Milky-Way galaxy — most of which are billions of years older than the solar system, and that it will take less than a billion years for our Voyager spacecraft to cross the Milky-Way disk, we must engage in the scientific search for extraterrestrial technological artifacts.
It is better to be an optimist because life is sometimes a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is why I am engaged in the search with the hope that we will find a partner on our blind date with interstellar objects.”
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7 Jets Found on 3I/ATLAS — New Images
November 10, 2025
New telescope observations between November 5th and November 9th have captured unprecedented images of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, revealing a complex multi-jet structure that has scientists questioning whether this is a natural comet or something else entirely.
According to reports shared by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, astronomers Frank Niebling and Michael Buchner captured what may be the most detailed ground-based image yet using two telescopes and stacked five three-minute exposures.
The images show at least seven distinct jets emanating from 3I/ATLAS in multiple directions, with some pointing toward the sun as anti-tails and others spreading in various directions, creating a network rather than the single tail expected from a normal comet.
The behavior of 3I/ATLAS continues to challenge conventional understanding. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed the object showed non-gravitational acceleration, meaning it sped up beyond what gravity alone could cause.
In reference to this finding, Avi Loeb calculated in his recent analysis that 3I/ATLAS should have lost more than 13 percent of its original mass during its October 29th perihelion passage.
According to Loeb in his Newsmax interview, “the amount of boost to its velocity was equivalent to a jet carrying 5 billion tons of matter that would give it a recoil.”
That kind of mass loss should create a massive visible tail pointing away from the sun, but observers are not seeing it.
Instead, what emerged is this unprecedented seven-jet structure with a glowing halo extending half a million kilometers.
Adding to the mystery are the color changes observed throughout 3I/ATLAS’s journey.
The object appeared red in early observations, shifted to green, and then after passing closest to the sun became bluer than the sun itself, which is backwards from what scientists expect.
On October 24th, the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa made the first radio detection of 3I/ATLAS, picking up absorption lines from hydroxyl molecules.
These molecules indicate the object is shedding water-related material, which fits with a natural comet explanation. However, physicist Michio Kaku offered an alternative theory in his News Nation interview, suggesting
3I/ATLAS could be a very old object, perhaps 7 billion years old, that has accumulated unusual chemical composition over time, which would explain why its nickel content is off scale compared to ordinary comets.
The scientific community remains divided on what 3I/ATLAS actually is.
According to Loeb’s published analysis, he calculated the odds of this being a random natural comet from interstellar space at one in 100 million when factoring in its massive size and unusual orbital characteristics.
The James Webb Space Telescope will measure exactly how fast material is shooting out of those jets and what it is made of in the coming weeks.
Natural comets eject material at relatively slow speeds around half a kilometer per second, while rockets and advanced propulsion systems work at much higher speeds.
3I/ATLAS reaches its closest point to Earth on December 19th, about five weeks away, passing within 269 million kilometers.
He has asked his Galileo Project team to analyze data in the coming months, watching for any smaller objects that might have separated from 3I/ATLAS.
The next five weeks represent a unique opportunity to gather definitive data that will either confirm this as an unusual natural visitor or present observations that cannot be explained by conventional comet behavior.
Meanwhile, high-resolution images captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on October 2nd using the HiRISE camera remain unreleased.
According to NASA’s communication with Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, these images will be made available once the government shutdown ends and operations resume, though scientists remain eager to see what that clearest view yet of 3I/ATLAS might reveal.
https://www.ufonews.co/post/7-jets-found-on-3i-atlas-new-images
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKFqSCWzg4w
https://x.com/admpubmx/status/1987931815223476274
https://x.com/UAPWatchers/status/1988042358521311668
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LglpLV9NzOw (Ray's Astrophotography: Comet 3i Atlas is racing FAST and getting BRIGHT - I took a picture)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q8W1PvDWRk (Caspersight: Avi Loeb Interview - The Strangest 3i Atlas Anomaly Ever Found)
>How about the 3 smaller objects that left the main one (just as it was going behind the sun) and are now headed toward Earth?
You're gonna have to settle for an Economic Times article
3I/ATLAS exploded? Scientists say the interstellar comet may have broken into 16 pieces after perihelion, and related comet stuff
Updated: 10 November, 2025 10:50 AM -8 GMT
3I/ATLAS exploded into 16 pieces? A recent post-perihelion image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS suggests that it might have exploded or broken into pieces.
The mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, only the third known visitor from beyond our solar system, has stunned astronomers after recent images suggested it may have exploded or broken into more than a dozen fragments.
As the comet-like body made its closest pass to the Sun, or perihelion, it brightened dramatically while shedding gases at an immense rate.
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who has been closely tracking the object, said the intense solar heating may have caused a catastrophic breakup.
“Was the dramatic mass loss and brightening of 3I/ATLAS at perihelion evidence that it disintegrated?” Loeb asked. “Breakup into fragments would have increased the surface area of its material.”
How scientists knew 3I/ATLAS might have exploded
New images captured by British astronomers Michael Buechner and Frank Niebling reveal 3I/ATLAS developing a massive “anti-tail” and a long “smoking” trail of jets extending about one million kilometers toward the Sun and nearly three million kilometers in the opposite direction.
“For a natural comet, the outflow velocity of the jets is expected to be [0.248 miles] per second,” Loeb wrote in his latest analysis.
“At that speed, the jets must have persisted over a timescale of 1–3 months.”
However, Loeb’s calculations suggest that the comet would have needed to absorb far more energy from the Sun than its surface area allows, meaning something doesn’t add up if it’s just a normal comet.
“At its perihelion distance, the Sun provided 700 Joules per square meter per second,” Loeb noted. “This means that the absorbing area of 3I/ATLAS must have been larger than [617 square miles],” roughly equivalent to a sphere with a diameter of 14.3 miles, four times larger than earlier estimates.
Why astronomers think 3I/ATLAS exploded
Between August and its closest solar approach, 3I/ATLAS’ mass loss skyrocketed from about 150 kilograms per second to nearly two million kilograms per second, according to Loeb.
The only plausible natural explanation, he argues, is that it fragmented into at least 16 pieces. “This would mean that 3I/ATLAS exploded at perihelion and we are witnessing the resulting fireworks,” he wrote.
If that’s not the case, Loeb warns, it could mean 3I/ATLAS isn’t a natural comet at all. He has previously suggested that it may even be a technological object, possibly an ancient or active alien spacecraft.
“Technological thrusters require a much smaller mass loss to produce the observed jets,” he explained. “Alien-tech thrusters might employ yet higher exhaust speeds, reducing the required mass loss by several orders of magnitude and making the required fuel a small of the spacecraft mass.”
When we will know if 3I/ATLAS exploded or not
Astronomers worldwide are now watching closely as 3I/ATLAS moves toward its closest approach to Earth on December 19 and to Jupiter in March 2026.
Upcoming observations by the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes could confirm whether 3I/ATLAS exploded or if it remains a single, intact object defying conventional explanations.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/3i/atlas-exploded-scientists-say-the-interstellar-comet-may-have-broken-into-16-pieces-after-perihelion-heres-when-well-know/articleshow/125244266.cms
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/did-3i-atlas-just-break-up-near-the-sun-c27f7479f3e0
https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/11/comet-c-2025-r2-swan-fragmentation-5-6-nov-2025-images/
https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/11/comet-c-2025-k1-atlas-fragmentation-10-11-nov-2025-images/
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/another-comet-mysteriously-appears-in-solar-system-between-3i-atlas-and-earth-and-is-it-linked-to-interstellar-visitor-heres-complete-truth-and-when-will-it-reach-near-earth-c/2025-v1-borisov-perihelion-november-16-harvard-astrophysicist-avi-loeb/articleshow/125237532.cms
Comet Lemmon lights up the sky over Spain
November 11, 2025
Comets of this type aren't everyday sightings. The opportunity to observe objects that might have orbital periods measured in thousands of years is fleeting.
So when Comet Lemmon recently appeared in the night sky, eager skywatchers looked up to observe it move across the heavens.
What is it?
Comet Lemmon, or C/2025 A6, was discovered by the Arizona-based Mount Lemmon Survey, which observed it as an almost asteroid‐like object; it was later re-classified as a comet once coma and tail features became evident.
Comets are often described as "dirty snowballs" — icy bodies laced with dust and rock — from the fringes of the solar system.
When they approach the sun, they heat up, releasing gas and dust that form the coma (the glowing cloud around the nucleus) and the tail(s) that stream away from them.
Studying these phenomena gives insight into primordial solar system material.
In recent years, improved survey telescopes (like those used in the Mount Lemmon Survey) and more frequent astrophotography mean we're discovering and documenting more comets than ever.
Yet, large and bright comets visible even to the unaided eye remain uncommon.
Where is it?
This photograph was taken near Pedraforca mountain in the Bergueda region in Spain.
Why is it amazing?
The image provides more than just a beautiful view; it records a moment of active sublimation: dust and gas escaping the nucleus due to solar heating.
The color of a comet's coma often indicates what gases may be fluorescing under solar UV radiation, offering clues to the icy body's composition.
Capturing the tail and coma structure helps astronomers model the dust production rate, tail shape and size, and how the comet is interacting with the solar wind and radiation pressure.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/comet-lemmon-lights-up-the-sky-over-spain-space-photo-of-the-day-for-nov-11-2025
NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy
@SecDuffyNASA
Today, we honor all who have served our nation—both here on Earth and in the great beyond.
From engineers to mission control to astronauts, veterans continue to strengthen @NASA’s mission through their service, skill, and sacrifice.
We’re proud to highlight our Astronaut Corps who have served and are currently serving in uniform this Veterans Day! 🇺🇸🚀
6:27 AM · Nov 11, 2025
https://x.com/SecDuffyNASA/status/1988252255817007188
https://x.com/SecDuffyNASA/status/1988287007869604337 (thread cont.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vjh7pbMJI0 (Secretary Sean Duffy - NASA is Going Back to the Moon for the First Time in 54 Years | SRS #251)
Key antenna in NASA’s Deep Space Network damaged
November 11, 2025
The 70-meter antenna, designated DSS-14, at the Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, California. Credit: NASA
WASHINGTON — One of the largest antennas in NASA’s Deep Space Network was damaged in September and may be out of service for an extended period, further straining the system.
paywall
https://spacenews.com/key-antenna-in-nasas-deep-space-network-damaged/
House Demands Answers Over Goddard Changes
November 10, 2025
According to a House Science Democrats press release:
“Today, Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) sent a letter to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Acting Administrator Sean Duffy demanding that NASA immediately halt plans to close and move laboratories and mission-critical facilities at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The Ranking Member states NASA must respond within 24 hours and emphasizes the threat these chaotic and veiled moves and closures, partially carried out during a government shutdown, pose for flagship NASA missions.
Committee staff obtained new information late last week that Goddard has told staff additional facilities would need to be emptied by Wednesday, November 12.”
“In recent days, my staff has received disturbing reports that NASA is directing the imminent closure of laboratories and facilities hosting mission-critical capabilities at the Greenbelt, Maryland, campus of the Goddard Space Flight Center,” said Ranking Member Lofgren in the letter.
“These actions put essential hardware and capabilities at great risk.
The laboratories and facilities facing closure support many NASA flight missions, and they include laboratories essential to the completion of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
The agency’s hastily planned moves and closures – some of which I understand are already well underway – risk causing significant delays for multi-billion-dollar missions under development such as Roman and could heighten the risk of mission failure altogether.”
“NASA must halt any and all laboratory, facility, and building closure and relocation activities at Goddard as well as the relocation, disposal, excessing, or repurposing of any specialized equipment or mission-related capabilities, hardware, and systems, and it must do so now,” continued Ranking Member Lofgren.
“Further, NASA must ensure the continuing operation of the laboratories and facilities needed to sustain the ongoing, excepted work occurring at the Goddard campus, especially work on the Roman Space Telescope.
The agency must respond to this letter, in writing, within 24 hours to confirm that all such activities at Goddard have been put on hold indefinitely.”
https://nasawatch.com/shutdown/house-demands-answers-over-goddard-changes/
https://democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2025-11-10_letter_to_acting_administrator_duffy.pdf
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-plan-written-by-trump-s-nasa-pick-was-leaked-here-s-what-to-know-about-project-athena/ar-AA1Q9IU5
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/science/nasa-jared-isaacman-project-athena
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/03/jared-isaacman-confidential-manifesto-nasa-00633858
https://nasawatch.com/ask-the-administrator/project-athena-summary-from-jared-isaacman/
A plan written by Trump’s NASA pick was leaked. Here’s what to know about ‘Project Athena’
November 10, 2025
A 62-page document written by President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again pick to run NASA, billionaire Jared Isaacman, outlines a sweeping, ambitious, and at times controversial plan for the space agency.
Isaacman, who was tapped to be NASA administrator after Trump was elected in 2024, only to see his nomination retracted months later, was renominated for the top job last Tuesday.
While Isaacman has publicly acknowledged the leaked document, which is labeled May 2025 but was recently leaked to several news outlets, he said in a social media post that “parts of it are now dated.” He did not specify which portions were obsolete.
It nonetheless set off a flurry of speculation about how the space agency would function with Isaacman at the helm. A copy of the document was obtained and authenticated by CNN.
In his statement, which was posted the day of his renomination, Isaacman said that “Project Athena,” as the paper is titled, “was always intended to be a living document refined through data gathering post-confirmation.”
“I would think it is better to have a plan going into a responsibility as great as the leadership of NASA than no plan at all,” the statement reads.
Among the proposed goals are revamping some NASA centers to focus on nuclear electric propulsion, establishing a new Mars exploration program, and embracing an “accelerate/fix/delete” philosophy to reshape the agency.
If enacted, many of the policies laid out could significantly alter the day-to-day lives of NASA workers and transform the 67-year-old agency.
“I think it is presenting a more dramatic set of changes than many in the space community were expecting,” said Casey Dreier, the chief of space policy at the nonprofit exploration advocacy group Planetary Society, of the document.
Some lawmakers have also expressed concern about how Isaacman might seek to reform NASA campuses across the country.
Isaacman still faces a confirmation vote in the Senate and would need Congressional approval for many of the objectives mapped out in the document.
As a tech CEO — who made his fortune by founding payments company Shift4 at age 16 and has twice flown to orbit on self-funded SpaceX missions — Isaacman is an unorthodox pick for NASA’s top role.
Space agency administrators are typically selected from a pool of scientists, engineers, academics and public servants.
But Isaacman has also garnered broad support within the commercial space industry, where he’s perceived as an energetic outsider ready to usher NASA into a new era.
A power struggle
According to a source familiar with the matter, the original Project Athena document was more than 100 pages.
Isaacman made only three hard copies of a truncated 62-page version and distributed them to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and his chief of staff.
The leak — according to a recent Ars Technica report and a source who confirmed the account to CNN — looked to have been part of an effort by Duffy, who is temporarily running NASA, to spur controversy and potentially thwart Isaacman’s renomination.
CNN previously reported that Duffy has said privately that he would like to hold the space chief title permanently, according to a source familiar with the matter.
A spokesperson for Duffy previously denied that he’s said he wishes to remain in the NASA administrator job, and Isaacman said in his social media statement, posted after the “Project Athena” document was leaked, that he believes Duffy has “great instincts and is an excellent communicator.”
(The spokesperson for Duffy did not offer comment for this story.) “If there is any friction, I suspect it is more political operators causing the controversy,” Isaacman said.
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Isaacman was renominated for the NASA post on November 4, one day after reports about the Athena document began circulating in the news.
“I think (the people who leaked Project Athena) thought this would ruffle feathers amongst the delegations that care about human spaceflight,” said one former NASA official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a private document. “I will tell you — it hasn’t worked.”
CNN reached out to nearly a dozen senators whose home states have NASA centers that could be pegged for major changes, according to the Project Athena document.
Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia and Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland — the home of Goddard Space Flight Center — offered the most detailed responses.
Van Hollen said in a statement that he had met with Isaacman earlier this year and he “looks forward to another hearing to discuss further with him why the next space race and the search for habitable planets runs through Maryland.”
“To protect our nation’s innovation leadership, he must be more than a rubber stamp for the Administration’s chainsaw approach to our space science initiatives,” Van Hollen said.
Warner, whose state houses NASA’s Langley campus, urged Isaacman to “engage with Congress and reconsider any plan that threatens these world-class facilities and the communities that depend on them.”
“The reported proposals to downsize or privatize key missions at Langley and Wallops would be a serious mistake, jeopardizing critical scientific capabilities and the talented workforce whose expertise keeps the United States at the forefront of aerospace research,” Warner’s statement reads.
No lawmaker reached by CNN indicated how they intended to vote on Isaacman’s confirmation.
A Mars shot and nuclear propulsion
One eye-popping proposal in Project Athena is to set up a new Mars program, dubbed “Olympus.”
Much of that vision, the source familiar with the document told CNN, was intended to align NASA with SpaceX’s goal of sending an uncrewed Starship spacecraft to the Martian surface next year.
SpaceX’s plan, which CEO Elon Musk discussed publicly in May, “was going to be a more-or-less free mission that SpaceX was going to do anyway,” the source said.
The thinking was that NASA could step in to provide support through the Olympus program at minimal cost to taxpayers, according to the source.
The document also includes numerous mentions of setting up an expansive program to pursue nuclear electric propulsion — which involves powering spacecraft engines with electricity from small nuclear reactors.
The technology could one day provide steady, long-lasting power for faster and more flexible deep-space missions, including Mars travel.
Isaacman has pushed publicly for expanding such research, writing in an August op-ed for RealClearScience that he coauthored with Newt Gingrich that the space agency should focus on tasks and research “no other agency, organization, or company is capable of accomplishing.”
Nuclear electric propulsion is an example of such a focus area, the op-ed argues.
“Our competitors are not waiting. China and Russia are investing heavily in nuclear space technologies. If America wants to lead, NASA must take on the hard problems again and do the near-impossible,” Isaacman and Gingrich wrote in the article.
Project Athena also suggests setting up a demonstration mission to dock a nuclear electric propulsion spacecraft with a crewed vehicle in orbit, according to the leaked paper.
Isaacman’s nuclear vision also proposes that NASA centers working on projects like the Space Launch System rocket — including the Marshall and Michoud facilities in Alabama and Louisiana — shift their focus to nuclear electric propulsion development when the SLS program concludes.
When contacted for comment, a spokesperson for Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said Tuberville had not met with Isaacman yet but he “will, of course, ask about Marshall.”
The source familiar with the document noted that it was crafted around the same time the Trump White House drafted the President’s Budget Request, or PBR, which called for canceling NASA’s SLS rocket and some other major projects that could have left multiple NASA centers without a cornerstone program.
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The source said that Isaacman began compiling the Project Athena document in late 2024 and updated it as he had conversations with policymakers. The source also said that Isaacman did not help draft the PBR.
With this summer’s “Big Beautiful Bill” expressly extending the SLS program through at least the next four missions, it appears Isaacman may delay implementing a bold new focus on nuclear electric propulsion research.
Isaacman said November 4 on social media that he hopes to zero-in on those pursuits only after a “foundation” of lunar exploration has been built.
To the moon
When the Project Athena document was drafted in early 2025, Trump had already signaled a renewed interest in Mars — even mentioning exploration of the planet in his inaugural address while staying silent on NASA’s ongoing efforts to return astronauts to the moon.
Isaacman echoed Trump’s Mars ambitions during a confirmation hearing in April, saying he intended to pursue exploration of the red planet in tandem with NASA’s moon program. However, questions about how he would fund such projects loomed.
n the months since, however, the moon has emerged as the clear policy priority amid a renewed space race with China, which is aiming to land its taikonauts on the lunar surface by 2030.
The recent push to bolster NASA’s moon missions, including a $10 billion influx Congress gave the agency’s human spaceflight efforts in July, “brings clarity to the topic,” Isaacman said in his social media statement.
But Isaacman is back in the running for the top NASA job at a time when the agency’s plans for a crewed moon landing, called Artemis III, are in flux.
Shifting lunar plans
The Artemis III mission, which is slated to launch later this decade, currently hinges on SpaceX’s Starship ferrying NASA astronauts down to the lunar surface.
But some policy experts have grown increasingly concerned that Starship — the most powerful rocket ever built — is too large, novel and complex to meet NASA’s urgent timeline.
Duffy recently signaled a willingness to boot SpaceX off the project, saying he would ask the company and its chief competitor, Blue Origin, to show how they could expedite development of their respective lunar landers.
Those remarks prompted an acerbic response from Musk, a friend of Isaacman’s, who referred to the interim NASA leader as “Sean Dummy.”
Isaacman has not publicly said whether he would support sidelining SpaceX from the Artemis III mission. But a source familiar with the matter said that Isaacman has expressed an intention to partner with whichever company most quickly produces an astronaut-worthy lunar lander.
The Project Athena “plan never favored any one vendor, never recommended closing centers, or directed the cancellation of programs before objectives were achieved,” Isaacman said in his social media statement.
“The plan valued human exploration as much as scientific discovery,” Isaacman said. “It was written as a starting place to give NASA, international partners, and the commercial sector the best chance for long-term success.”
Uncertainty for science
The source familiar with the Project Athena document said some of the more controversial aspects of the plan warrant more explanation.
One line item in the document, for example, states that Isaacman intends to take “NASA out of the taxpayer funded climate science business and leave it for academia to determine” — a proposal that critics say said could impede the nation’s ability to gather crucial environmental data.
The document also maps out similar policies that could be applied across many of NASA’s initiatives, such as recommendations to embrace “science-as-service” for future projects.
Such measures, calling for researchers to focus on purchasing data from the private sector, could mark a significant change for the agency.
Similar policy philosophies have been tried at NASA, particularly in the 1990s during a “better, faster, cheaper reformulation,” Dreier noted. But enthusiasm waned for that approach when a pair of Mars missions were lost.
And the commercial space industry may not be in a position to take up all the tasks Isaacman’s Athena document suggests it can, he said.
“It places a lot of faith on the commercial marketplace to deliver in ways that it hasn’t had the chance to fully be tested on,” Dreier said.
Isaacman’s social media statement also acknowledges his “science-as-a-service” concept “got people fired up” but clarified that he intended to focus on purchasing data from Earth observation satellites:
“Why build bespoke satellites at greater cost and delay when you could pay for the data as needed from existing providers and repurpose the funds for more planetary science missions (as an example)?”
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Isaacman has also publicly defended science programs such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was slated for budget cuts in the PBR. And he stated he’d be willing to spend his own money to get the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope off the ground.
“I was prepared to personally cover the cost to launch Roman — if that’s what it took to get to the science,” Isaacman said in a June social media post. (That same promise appears in the Project Athena document.)
“Anything suggesting that I am anti-science or want to outsource that responsibility is simply untrue,” Isaacman’s November 4 statement reads.
A rankled workforce
Among the other proposals in the Project Athena document are plans to hasten NASA’s reorganization. The agency has already lost roughly 4,000 of its 18,000 employees as part of the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program.
Isaacman said in his social media statement last week that he wishes to move away from rolling out piecemeal change and instead implement “a single, data-driven reorganization aimed at reducing layers of bureaucracy between leadership and the engineers, researchers, and technicians.”
Extensive changes, however, could further disgruntle a workforce that has been reeling from looming budget cuts and what employees have described as political distractions and discordant communication from leadership.
Isaacman’s document also details myriad other plans to change how the agency operates — such as conducting a sweeping review of NASA’s boards and committees to suspend any that “delay decision making,” and reimagine the space agency’s approach to risk assessment.
“We will ensure safety is at the forefront of our decisions but achieving the mission of NASA means accepting that some risks are worth taking,” the document reads.
Former NASA astronaut and SpaceX advisor Garrett Reisman, who has long said he believes NASA may have become too risk-averse in the wake of the 2003 Columbia disaster, told CNN in a November 8 phone interview he was encouraged to see that Isaacman hopes to reevaluate that aspect of the agency.
It would be unwise, he added, to start eliminating safety organizations — but they could be revamped to create a “healthy tension” between risk assessors and engineers seeking to push boundaries.
However, he cautioned that “it’s really hard to know in the moment if you’re going too far or not,” Reisman said. “It’s a very difficult thing to do, so I wish him good luck.”
A leader of change
Isaacman is generally well regarded across the space industry, where he has largely been viewed as a passionate leader who can enact visionary change.
In an emailed statement, Dreier, the Planetary Society executive, acknowledged that the Project Athena document “was prepared in a different era.”
NASA has since received billions of dollars for projects including lunar exploration, Dreier noted, and science advocates have demonstrated an outpouring of opposition to Trump’s proposed cuts to research.
Isaacman’s renomination to the NASA chief job now presents “a good opportunity to engage on some of these proposals, particularly as they relate to science,” Dreier added.
In his social media post, Isaacman said that, if the Project Athena document becomes public, “I will stand behind it,” adding that he believes “there are many elements of the plan that the space community and NASA would find exciting.”
But he did not wish to debate the plan “line-by-line while NASA and the rest of the government are going through a shutdown,” according to the November 4 post.
More broadly, Isaacman has suggested he intends to enter the NASA job with an open mind and adjust course based on feedback.
In a social media post in June, for example, Isaacman wrote that he “didn’t love” being approached by “people who thought they were uniquely NASA’s savior.” He added: “I have little interest in doing the same.”
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https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/space-rescue-services-needed-2-stranded-astronaut-incidents-are-a-massive-wake-up-call-experts-say
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3332295/china-preparing-bring-home-astronauts-stranded-tiangong-space-station
Space rescue services needed? 2 'stranded' astronaut incidents are a 'massive wake-up call,' experts say
November 11, 2025
China's decision to delay the return of its Shenzhou 20 astronauts from the country's space station due to a possible space debris impact has led to yet another "stranded in space" state of affairs.
The situation is also sparking discussion of space rescue planning — or lack of it.
That trio of Chinese astronauts — Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie — have been orbiting Earth for more than six months.
Prior to the landing delay, the Shenzhou 20 trio had handed over operation of the Tiangong space station to the newly arrived Shenzhou 21 crew.
They were due to return back to Earth under parachute on Nov. 5., but the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced the landing wave-off the same day, explaining that the crew's spacecraft "is suspected of being struck by small space debris and impact analysis and risk assessment [s] are underway."
The CMSA provided a brief on the status of the crew on Nov. 11, writing that "Following the postponement of the Shenzhou-20 manned spacecraft return mission, the project team, adhering to the principles of 'life first, safety first,' immediately activated emergency plans and measures" and that "All work is progressing steadily and orderly according to plan."
However, the statement does not elaborate on what specific issue the Shenzhou 20 encountered or where the problem lies.
Some speculation revolves around a possible launch, if needed, of an uncrewed Shenzhou 22 spacecraft as a replacement vehicle for the damaged spacecraft.
In light of details provided by China's space agency, experts are now left to wonder what the state of the Shenzhou 20 relief efforts might be.
Lack of communications
"I wonder out loud why they would not be more forthcoming about specifics of the event," responds Darren McKnight, an orbital debris specialist and senior technical fellow of LeoLabs, a group dedicated to space domain awareness.
McKnight observes that the Chinese are not usually forthcoming about anything where they would 'lose face,' a very Eastern philosophy.
"However, we are all now citizens of the space environment and lack of communication about events such as this hurts everyone," McKnight told Space.com.
The space debris expert has been trying to tally debris impact events in low Earth orbit for years, especially those that cause mission-degrading or mission-terminating effects. McKnight's on-going work is a way to map the evolution of the space environmental effects.
"These low-level indicators will be precursors for more significant events, events that many people call the Kessler Syndrome," said McKnight. He has been working on what he terms the "four waves" of the Kessler Syndrome as a means to anticipate how quickly the environment is evolving.
In regards to China's Shenzhou spacecraft reentry predicament, "the lack of transparency of these events makes it difficult to model the future," McKnight said.
"By the way, it is not just this case. I know of several mission-degrading events happening with commercial satellites over the last couple of decades," that deserve to be detailed, McKnight said, events that would also help better assess the space debris-riddled environment.
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Wake-up call
Jan Osburg is a senior engineer for the RAND Corporation's engineering and applied sciences department in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. RAND is a global policy think tank. Osburg spoke to Space.com to share his personal take, not as a representative of or spokesperson for RAND.
"I was positively surprised that the Chinese made even the initial public announcement, since they generally have not been all that forthcoming with information about their program," Osburg said. "But it certainly is a bad situation. Hopefully the astronauts can come safely back to Earth soon."
But Osburg said his "big-picture takeaway" is that two separate "stranded in space" incidents within about a year of each other "should be a massive wake-up call that a space rescue capability/organization is needed."
Starliner woes
Last year's Boeing Starliner mission was flown by NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams in June 2024 to the International Space Station (ISS) for what was slated to be approximately a 10-day stay.
While Starliner did get to the ISS safely, the craft did experience propulsion-system helium leaks and thruster failures en route. Those problems pushed NASA to extend the Wilmore and Williams stay aboard the ISS. Starliner returned to Earth uncrewed in September 2024.
Williams and Wilmore were reassigned to a long-duration ISS mission, later to return back to Earth in March 2025 in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. But the Boeing Starliner situation and now the China Shenzhou episode were lucky events, said Osburg.
"Both incidents have occurred during missions to a space station, where the station can act as a safe haven until a rescue plan can be put in place," Osburg pointed out.
"But especially on the commercial side there are 'free-flyer' missions where docking with a station is typically not an option, and rescue has to happen quickly due to limited on-board supplies in those capsules," he said.
Osburg said a "big enabler" would be compatible docking systems - or another way to transfer spacefarers from a vessel in distress to another vehicle.
So too would be compatible communications systems, as well as established rescue coordination procedures — similar to what has evolved in the maritime world over the last few decades, he said.
Standing ready
"One of the points I've been trying to make," Osburg continued, "is that creating an initial space rescue capability does not have to be expensive or involve setting up a new government agency or the like. It could be done with a few million dollars per year, which is 'in the noise' for human spaceflight costs."
Those monies could fund a small independent non-profit organization with a handful of people, said Osburg, working on the topic at the strategic level by advocating standardization, performing planning exercises, but also standing ready to provide operational coordination in case of an actual space rescue incident, he said.
"But whatever the way forward, hopefully something is set up soon, before the next incident happens," Osburg concluded.
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https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/shocking-vulnerabilities-satellite-communications-study
https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/
'Shockingly large' amount of sensitive satellite communications are unencrypted and vulnerable to interception, researchers find
November 10, 2025
Cybersecurity researchers have intercepted vast quantities of private voice calls and text messages, including potentially sensitive communications of government and military officials, transmitted over completely unprotected satellite communication links.
When the researchers decided to put satellite communications under scrutiny, they thought they would find some flaws. What they discovered was much worse than their wildest dreams.
Using a commercial off-the-shelf satellite dish mounted on the roof of a university campus in San Diego, they scanned internet traffic routed via 39 geostationary satellites visible from southern California.
They soon realized that sensitive messages including those involving critical infrastructure and internal corporate and government communications were broadcast via those satellites completely unprotected.
The experiment could be easily replicated by hackers using commercially available equipment, the researchers warn, saying the results were "as bad as one could hope."
"A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, internal corporate and government communications, private citizens' voice calls and SMS, and consumer Internet traffic from in-flight wifi and mobile networks," the researchers wrote in a statement.
"This data can be passively observed by anyone with a few hundred dollars of consumer-grade hardware."
It turns out that many of these satellites are using outdated equipment, the researchers say.
"Geostationary satellites are a somewhat older technology so our expectation was that they will be using some older, outdated cryptography," Dave Levin, an associate professor in computer science at the University of Maryland who led the research, told Space.com.
"So, we thought we would try to listen and then see whether we could break this cryptography. It turned out we didn't have to because the cryptography wasn't used at all in large part."
Geostationary satellites orbit Earth at a distance of 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers). At this distance, the orbital velocity of a satellite matches the speed of Earth's rotation.
As a result, the satellite appears suspended above a fixed spot on the equator, having a stable view of a large portion of the globe.
Before the advent of low-Earth-orbit internet-beaming megaconstellations such as SpaceX's Starlink, geostationary satellites were the dominant solution for satellite communications. They are still widely used today, including for military purposes.
The satellites scrutinized in the new study make up only about 15 percent of the world's entire geostationary fleet, Wenyi "Morty" Zhang, a PhD researcher at the University of California, San Diego, and co-author of the study, told Space.com.
He thinks the scope of the problem is likely much worse.
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Levin said that what the team found was "as bad as one could hope." The researchers could listen to private phone calls, read text messages, but also see sensitive traffic transmitted by companies and government and military organizations.
Data of passengers using in-flight WIFI provided onboard of commercial airliners were also easily visible. "There were way more things in the clear than we had anticipated," Levin added.
"Moreover, there were also more sensitive things than we had anticipated."
Zhang said the transmissions included messages sent by Mexican military and the police, and even some communications by the U.S. Government.
"It was quite shocking to us," said Zhang, who built the eavesdropping antenna and led the technical side of the project.
The entire set-up, he said, cost a few hundred dollars and consisted of commercially available equipment. The complete absence of encryption of the satellite links was only one part of the problem, added Levin.
Hundreds of companies, frequently unaware of the workings of satellite communications systems, were sending their data via those satellites without end-to-end encryption, which is a standard in today's secure internet communication.
Data being transmitted by hundreds of companies including mobile telephone operator T-Mobile were thus in plain sight of the researchers. The team has not yet disclosed the names of all the affected companies.
They are bound by responsible disclosure rules that require them to give the affected parties time to fix the problems before making their issues public, but they stated that millions of users have been made vulnerable through the complete lack of encryption.
The researchers spent mere days investigating each of the satellites. Still, the amount of intercepted communications was mind-boggling.
A dedicated attacker could easily harvest even more data. And in addition to gathering sensitive information, attackers could find many ways to actively exploit those vulnerabilities.
"Just from being able to see people's text messages, you might be able to get their two-factor authentication codes and then log into systems as them," said Levin.
"But an adversary could step up to another level and begin interjecting their own messages. They could, for example, try to interfere with critical infrastructure."
Levin added that although the affected companies first didn't want to believe they had a problem of such a scope at their hands, they all responded "positively" and in many cases were not even aware how much of their data was transmitted via satellites.
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Scientists 3D printed muscle tissue in microgravity. The goal is to make human organs from scratch
November 10, 2025
You may not be able to grow bigger muscles out of thin air, but you can 3D print them in microgravity, scientists at ETH Zurich have now established.
"3D printing" refers to a type of manufacturing that builds physical objects layer by layer. Different types of objects have been successfully 3D printed in space, but making functional human tissue from scratch — blood vessels, for example — requires special innovation.
Achieving this, however, is viewed as a transformative step toward a future where organs can be 3D-printed for transplantation into humans who need them. The ability to 3D print human tissue in space also opens up the door for future medical research and testing.
You may be wondering, though: Why does the 3D printing of these organs need to happen in space?
Well, One problem with manufacturing body tissue on Earth is that gravity adds stress to the materials being used in the process (aka, bioink), which poses a major challenge to producing muscle fibers exactly as they are in the human body, according to a press release from Zurich's Department of Health Sciences and Technology.
To work toward getting around this issue, researchers used parabolic flights to simulate microgravity conditions, then 3D printed muscle tissue in weightlessness with a biofabrication system they call G-FLight (Gravity-independent Filamented Light).
The latest research is another step toward a reality where it may be possible to manufacture functional human organs for transplantation, which could be a big deal because the current standard of relying on donors and the right blood match has made transplant wait lists tremendously long.
3D printing tissue in microgravity has been a budding field as of late; for instance, some scientists are working to manufacture artificial retinas in space, leveraging the microgravity environment to make better implants and help people regain sight.
Furthermore, other types of vascularized tissue, including liver tissue, have been successfully 3D printed in general. In terms of organ donation, scientists have also grown replacement bladders using bioprinting, and have successfully transplanted a 3D printed windpipe.
On the space and gravity front, the news from Switzerland may also offer hope to astronauts’ muscle-mass problem.
Microgravity is known to wreak havoc on muscle mass, and having the ability to manufacture and test muscle tissue in space may advance space medicine for future travelers aboard the International Space Station and beyond.
For instance, 3D printed artificial hearts are slated to be sent to the orbiting laboratory to test how the environment of space may impact astronauts who may someday embark on long duration space missions.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/scientists-3d-printed-muscle-tissue-in-microgravity-the-goal-is-to-make-human-organs-from-scratch
https://hest.ethz.ch/en/news/news-and-events/2025/10/muscle-tissue-from-a-3d-printer-produced-in-zero-gravity.html
Extreme 'paradise' volcano in Costa Rica is like a piece of ancient Mars on our doorstep — Earth from space
November 11, 2025
This striking satellite photo shows a barren Mars-like volcano lurking in the heart of the Costa Rican rainforest.
The alien landscape contains a super-acidic lake that is a "paradise" for extreme microbes and provides researchers with an excellent analog for studying potential lifeforms on the Red Planet.
The unique volcano, named Poás, is the focal point of the Poás Volcano National Park in Costa Rica's Alajuela province.
It is a stratovolcano that formed between 1.5 million and 700,000 years ago, with a summit that reaches 8,848 feet (2,697 meters) above sea level.
Satellite images make it look like Poás is situated in the middle of nowhere.
However, around 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of the volcano (just out of shot in this photo), lie the suburbs of Costa Rica's capital San José, which is home to around 1.5 million people.
As a result, the volcano is a popular tourist destination, despite being one of the most active volcanoes in Central America.
Poás has had dozens of major eruptions in the last 200 years, but also experiences many more smaller outbursts, where it puffs out a mix of steam, smoke and toxic gases, as well as the occasional ash cloud.
Since 2005, the volcano has had 13 of these minor eruptive phases, according to the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program.
Its most recent eruption began on Jan. 5 and persisted for the majority of 2025, although it has likely now come to an end.
This phase's activity peaked in early May, when sulfur dioxide levels briefly impacted air quality in San José and ashfall damaged some nearby crops, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
The main crater of Poás contains a highly acidic volcanic lake, named Laguna Caliente, which has an average pH value of just over 0, which is roughly equivalent to battery acid, according to the Earth Observatory.
This crater, which is around 0.8 miles (1.3 km) wide, is also home to sporadic geysers.
While these extreme conditions mean no animals or plants live within the crater, the lake's acidic waters are home to a thriving microbial community dominated by extremophile bacteria in the genus Acidiphilium, which feast on metal compounds dissolved in the water.
"We have a very human-centric bias for what a nice, happy, temperate environment is to grow in," Rachel Harris, a microbial ecologist and geochemist at Harvard University who is currently involved in devising NASA's Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration Strategy, told the Earth Observatory.
"The Poás system may be hostile to most forms of life we are familiar with. But for a microbe adapted to acid, heat and toxic metals, it's paradise," Earth Observatory representatives added.
Researchers are interested in Poás' extreme ecosystem because it is very similar to volcanic environments that likely existed on Mars more than 3 billion years ago, when the Red Planet was more similar to our own.
A 2022 study, for example, revealed that the low biodiversity and high resilience within Laguna Caliente's microbial community is very close to what researchers expect could have developed within potential Martian ecosystems.
Poás is particularly similar to a region of Mars, known as Home Plate, which was surveyed by NASA's Spirit rover in 2009.
This 300-foot-wide (90 m) plateau likely had an acidic hydrothermal system that may have been almost identical to Laguna Caliente, according to the Earth Observatory.
Other types of extremophiles may also have once thrived on Mars, including lifeforms similar to lichens or photosynthetic algae.
However, despite some promising recent findings from NASA's Perseverance rover, there is no hard evidence that the Red Planet has ever supported alien life.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/extreme-paradise-volcano-in-costa-rica-is-like-a-piece-of-ancient-mars-on-our-doorstep-earth-from-space
India focusing on terror angle in Delhi blast – RT sources
11 Nov, 2025 12:19
Indian authorities are focusing on a terrorist motive as potentially being behind the blast that claimed the lives of at least 12 people in Delhi on Monday, sources have told RT.
The rush-hour explosion occurred in a car near a metro station in the vicinity of the Red Fort, a 17th-century monument popular with tourists.
Home Minister Amit Shah said investigators were looking at “all angles.”
Local media have reported that police have filed a case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, a law usually invoked to probe cases linked to terror attacks.
Recently, reports have emerged about a series of arrests and seizures linked to terror plots that have been foiled by Indian security agencies.
On Monday, two people were arrested and 2,900kg of material used to make Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) and bomb-making components were seized in Faridabad, which is part of the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR).
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) stated on Sunday that it had arrested three terrorists allegedly linked with Islamic State from Ahmedabad, IANS reported.
The ATS of the western state of Rajasthan said on November 7 it had arrested a cleric with alleged links to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, a terror outfit.
In April, a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 26 people escalated to clashes between India and Pakistan. New Delhi said at the time that any future terror attack in India would be considered an act of war.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in Bhutan for an official visit, said on Tuesday that he was in touch with agencies investigating the blast in Delhi.
“Our agencies will get to the bottom of this conspiracy,” he said. “Those responsible will not be spared. All those responsible will be brought to justice.”
https://www.rt.com/india/627624-terror-angle-new-delhi-blast/
Pakistani Taliban claims deadly Islamabad suicide attack
11 Nov, 2025 09:28
The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday. The attack left at least 12 people dead and 27 injured, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has said.
The incident occurred outside a court building in the G-11 sector of the city. Naqvi said the attacker had planned to enter the court building, but blew himself up near a police van outside the complex after he was unable to gain access.
An investigation has been launched to determine the identity of the attacker.
The Pakistani Taliban (TTP), a jihadist terrorist organization operating primarily along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, has since claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying it was targeting “judges, lawyers, and officials who carried out rulings under Pakistan’s un-Islamic laws,” according to Al Arabiya.
The TTP vowed more attacks until Islamic law is fully implemented in the country.
Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has condemned the attack and ordered a thorough investigation into the incident, vowing that the perpetrators will be brought to justice.
He also linked the attack to a separate incident in the city of Wana on Monday where a suicide bomber attempted to blow himself up inside a school. Sharif claimed that while both attacks originated from Afghanistan, they were instigated by India.
Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif also linked the blast to Afghanistan. In a post on X, he said the “suicide attack” on the Islamabad District Court is a “wake-up call” that the conflict in the Afghan-Pakistan border region of Bаlochistan is “a war for all of Pakistan.”
“The rulers of Kabul can stop terrorism in Pakistan, but bringing this war all the way to Islamabad is a message from Kabul, to which – praise be to God – Pakistan has the full strength to respond,” he said.
https://www.rt.com/news/627614-pakistan-blast-car-islamabad/