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TYB

https://studyfinds.com/jupiter-reason-asteroid-dust-like-sun/

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aei9107

other space objects

https://consequence.net/2026/09/weird-al-yankovic-asteroid/

https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/09/asteroid-mining-spacecraft-fly-on-its-own/

https://astrobiology.com/2026/09/24/1i-oumuamua-like-objectss-sfds-with-older-current-and-future-surveys/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCXsp3dnD8E (Dobsonian Power: LIVE AVI LOEB: THEY'RE TECHNOLOGICAL ENTITIES)

Jupiter May Be the Reason This Asteroid’s Dust Looks Like The Sun

Sep 25, 2026

This Asteroid’s Chemistry Shouldn’t Make Sense, Until Jupiter Enters the Picture

In A Nutshell

Bennu’s rock and dust carry chemical fingerprints from both the inner and outer solar system, not just one region

Researchers say Jupiter’s growth carved a gap in the early solar system’s dust disk, blocking large rocks while letting fine dust keep mixing

Five Bennu samples tested at two independent labs showed nearly identical iron and titanium signatures, while chromium showed small, only partly explained variations

The findings point to a formation site near the water ice line, just inside Jupiter’s orbit, though researchers describe this as their leading explanation rather than a settled fact

Asteroid Bennu’s rock and dust carry chemical fingerprints from both the inner and outer solar system, and scientists now have a leading explanation for why:

the asteroid’s parent body may have formed in a narrow zone just past the water ice line and just inside a still growing Jupiter’s orbit.

That scenario, laid out in a new study in Science Advances, helps explain why Bennu, its cousin Ryugu, and a rare group of meteorites called CI chondrites all share elemental abundances that closely mirror the sun itself.

This mixed origin solves a puzzle that has divided researchers for years.

Bennu’s parent asteroid seems to have swept up material from far more of the solar system than one small body should reasonably contain, and researchers now think Jupiter is the reason.

As the giant planet grew, it began sorting the debris drifting past it, holding some back while letting the rest continue on.

To trace where the dust came from, scientists measured leftover signatures from ancient exploding stars, preserved as slightly different ratios of iron, titanium, and chromium depending on where material ended up in the early solar system.

Testing five separate Bennu samples in two independent labs, researchers found iron and titanium signatures that stayed nearly identical across every sample, while chromium showed small variations that only partly line up with signs of past water alteration inside the asteroid.

Five Bennu Samples Reveal Nearly Identical Chemical Fingerprints

Bennu is what scientists call a rubble pile, a loose cluster of rocky fragments held together mostly by gravity rather than forming one solid chunk.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission scooped material off Bennu’s surface and parachuted it back to Earth in 2023.

For this study, researchers examined five samples of different sizes and textures, including two powdered batches weighing about 20 and nearly 1,300 milligrams.

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Two separate labs, one at ETH Zurich and one at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ran the same samples through independent testing methods.

Their results matched closely, giving the team confidence the numbers reflected real chemistry rather than lab error.

Iron and titanium signatures came back nearly identical across every sample, regardless of size or texture. Chromium was the exception.

It showed small but real variations from sample to sample, and some of those differences lined up with signs that water once moved through the rock and altered it unevenly in certain spots.

One small sample, though, fell outside that pattern entirely, and the researchers say another process they do not yet fully understand may also be at work.

That shared chemistry is the real discovery here. Bennu’s iron signature ties it and its relatives more closely to material usually associated with the inner solar system, the same neighborhood that eventually built Earth.

That is surprising, since other chemical clues had always placed these objects with material from far out in the solar system instead.

Jupiter’s Growth Filtered Large Rocks from Fine Dust

To explain how dust from opposite ends of the solar system ended up in the same asteroid, researchers turned to models of how a young, growing Jupiter reshaped the disk of gas and dust around it.

Those models suggest Jupiter reached a large size within the first few million years after the solar system’s oldest solid material formed. A planet that size would have carved a gap in the surrounding material, and that gap would have worked like a filter.

Big chunks of rock and ice from farther out got stuck outside that gap, unable to drift any closer to the sun. Fine dust, grains smaller than a fraction of a millimeter, stayed light enough to remain mixed across the disk even as Jupiter grew.

Larger, solid rock fragments were mostly blocked from crossing the gap, which is why Bennu’s parent body accreted mostly fine dust and shattered mineral fragments rather than whole, coarse rocks.

Recent dating of Ryugu points to formation as early as roughly 2 million years after the solar system’s oldest solid material, and Bennu’s own chromium measurements in this study are consistent with that early timeline.

That timing sits earlier than several other meteorite families and is difficult to square with models in which comet forming regions produce bodies only late in the solar system’s history.

Bennu Bridges Two Distinct Regions of the Solar System

Bennu is not simply a leftover piece of the outer solar system, and it is not a stand-in for the inner planets either.

Researchers describe it as something in between, built from a pool of fine dust that Jupiter helped assemble by blocking larger rocks while letting small grains keep mixing from both regions.

That remains the team’s favored explanation rather than a settled fact, since a similar dust reservoir could, in principle, have formed elsewhere in the outer disk.

Even so, this mechanism accounts for why Bennu, Ryugu, and CI meteorites all carry elemental chemistry that echoes the sun so closely, despite rock that clearly experienced heavy water damage over time.

Pinning down where these asteroids formed does more than settle an old classification argument among scientists.

It sharpens the picture of how raw material, including water and organic molecules, moved through the early solar system, with Bennu offering one clue to how such material could have reached the inner planets.

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NASA Welcomes Côte d’Ivoire as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

Sep 24, 2026

Côte d’Ivoire signed the Artemis Accords on Thursday, becoming the 75th signatory and marking a major milestone for this growing coalition.

With the signing ceremony in the nation’s largest city, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire joined other like-minded nations and committed to the peaceful, transparent, and responsible exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

“The United States and Côte d’Ivoire already cooperate on Earth,” said NASA’s Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson. “Today, we expand that partnership beyond it.

Joining the Artemis Accords opens new opportunities for our scientists, engineers, and institutions to work together as humanity returns to the Moon and prepares for what comes next.

We’ve aligned on the principles. The opportunities are in front of us. And now we can get to work.”

The nation’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Adama Diawara signed on behalf of the country in a ceremony held during Africa Space Expo ASPEX 2026. Chargé d’affaires Junaid Munir from the U.S. Department of State witnessed the ceremony.

“This is a great achievement, and important for Côte d’Ivoire’s ambitions and for the rest of the African Union members,” said Director General of the Space Agency of Côte d’Ivoire Tidiane Outtara.

Côte d’Ivoire has expanded its involvement in space science and technology through years of international cooperation.

Since 2019, the National Office of Technical Development of Côte d’Ivoire and NASA have collaborated on Earth observation and geodesy, a field that measures Earth’s shape, gravity, and movement.

Together, the partners have advanced global geodetic networks, improved space‑based measurement techniques, and increased understanding of how Earth’s systems interact.

The country later established the Space Agency of Côte d’Ivoire in 2025 to coordinate national efforts in Earth observation, space weather, astronomy, satellite navigation, and communications.

In 2020, NASA and the State Department joined with seven other founding nations to establish the Artemis Accords, responding to the growing interest in lunar activities by both governments and private companies.

The Artemis Accords are the first set of practical principles aimed at enhancing transparency, safety, and coordination among nations as they explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond, committing nations to:

Explore peaceably and transparently

Render aid to those in need

Enable access to scientific data

Ensure activities do not interfere with those of others

Preserve historically significant sites and artifacts by developing best practices

By signing the Artemis Accords, nations open the door to opportunities for future lunar exploration with NASA, advancing humanity’s return to the Moon, and shaping the Golden Age of exploration and innovation.

https://www.nasa.gov/organizations/oiir/nasa-welcomes-cote-divoire-as-newest-artemis-accords-signatory/

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-accords/

moar

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/commercialcrew/2026/09/25/nasas-spacex-crew-13-flight-readiness-review-underway/

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-shares-spacex-crew-14-assignments-for-space-station-mission/

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/prizes-challenges-crowdsourcing-program/centennial-challenges/nasa-unveils-winning-designs-for-mars-space-food-systems-challenge/

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/practicing-for-safe-landings-on-the-moon-and-beyond/

Famed spy plane disappears from California air base as mystery grows

Sep. 25, 2026, 6:30 a.m. PT

A legendary spy plane has vanished from a California military base — it comes as NASA teases a mysterious new aircraft sparking speculation the two could be related.

The SR-71 Blackbird, tail No. 844, had been displayed for years at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, which is collocated with Edwards Air Force Base.

Satellite imagery indicates it has not been seen since at least May 17, according to Aviation Week defense editor Steve Trimble, who first reported the disappearance.

The timing is hard to ignore.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman unveiled a silhouette resembling an SR-71 during last week’s All-In Summit in Los Angeles while promising that the agency is rebuilding its fleet of experimental X-planes and pushing back into extreme-speed and high-altitude flight research.

“In the service of the first A [aeronautics] in NASA, we are rebuilding our X-plane fleet. The X-59 is researching quiet supersonic flight, but it’s just the beginning,” Isaacman told TWZ.

“It will not be long before NASA once again is flying as high and as fast as we had in decades past, and then even more.”

When the Blackbird-like image came up during a live interview immediately afterward, Isaacman added fuel to the mystery by asking, “You sure that’s a Blackbird?” He offered no further clarification.

The missing jet is no ordinary exhibit. Originally designated US Air Force serial No. 61-7980, it was the last SR-71 produced and the last one to fly, making its final flight in 1999.

Its current whereabouts are unclear, although Aviation Week sources said the aircraft was moved into a hangar earlier this year for an inspection.

The report said the combination of the jet’s disappearance and Isaacman’s presentation raises the possibility of a return-to-flight program after more than 26 years.

NASA has not confirmed that scenario, instead pointing to Isaacman’s broader push for more experimental aircraft capable of advancing high-speed and high-altitude flight.

The California desert has long been a proving ground for aviation’s wildest experiments, and NASA is once again pushing the limits there.

The agency’s experimental X-59 has been ripping across the skies above the Mojave as part of its effort to make supersonic flight over land quieter.

The sleek aircraft has already reached more than Mach 1 during testing at Edwards, with NASA planning further flights to study the “quiet thump” it produces instead of the ear-splitting sonic boom associated with traditional supersonic jets.

The ultimate goal is to gather enough data to help clear the way for commercial aircraft that could someday slash cross-country flight times.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/25/us-news/sr-71-spy-plane-vanishes-from-california-base-as-nasa-offers-clues/

https://www.twz.com/air/a-sr-71-blackbird-has-vanished

moar

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/09/25/nasas-roman-team-confirms-ground-stations-receiving-data/

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/09/25/nasa-northrop-grumman-complete-cygnus-xl-space-station-reboost-2/

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-spots-chaotic-secret-in-galaxy/

https://x.com/NASAMoonBase/status/2103502402221441441

NASA JPL

@NASAJPL

An image processing method developed at JPL – for Mars – is helping uncover ancient rock art, buildings, and even tattoos on mummified human remains on Earth.

See more (literally): https://go.nasa.gov/4j1Wl3S

4:07 PM · Sep 24, 2026

https://x.com/NASAJPL/status/2103260187192947160

moar NASA and frens

https://x.com/ESA_Webb/status/2103484733938081874

https://x.com/Space_Station/status/2103499768714383388

https://x.com/NASAJohnson/status/2103490652994675097

https://x.com/csa_asc/status/2103212210491404483

US must beat China to the moon, NASA chief says

Updated: Sep 24, 2026 / 06:28 PM CDT

The U.S. must meet its timeline to beat China in sending astronauts to the moon by decade’s end, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman tells NewsNation.

“We have a real rival here in China,” he told “The Hill” on Thursday. “They intend to put their astronauts on the surface of the moon in 2029.

Our intention is to do it in 2028. That means, no matter what, it’s coming down to months, not years. That is way too close.”

Isaacman’s comments came as Chinese President Xi Jinping was on the second day of a three-day visit to Washington, D.C., that has been framed as an attempt by the Trump administration to stabilize U.S.-China relations.

The cordiality is underscored by intense economic and technological competition between the two superpowers.

Isaacman said the U.S. would enjoy a major symbolic victory if it can stay on target and land astronauts on the moon before Beijing. Both countries, he noted, intend to build bases on the Lunar South Pole.

NASA’s first manned mission to the moon in 1969 prompted adversaries to think, “I wonder what else America is capable of doing, and maybe we should think twice before encroaching on their interests,” Isaacman said.

“Well, the inverse is also true,” he added.

NASA chief stays ‘open-minded’ about UAPs

Isaacman said he tends to think UAPs documented in government videos are likely natural phenomena or covert technology rather than extraterrestrial visitors.

NASA is among agencies helping sort through declassified materials, under a Trump administration effort to be more transparent about UFOs.

Isaacman added he is being “open-minded.”

“It is kind of our job to go out and try and answer the question, ‘Are we alone?’” he said.

“If it’s aliens, I think NASA should have a seat at the table in this, for sure, and if it’s a Sputnik moment, we did really well the last time that happened.”

Space data centers a matter of economics, NASA boss says

Asked whether data centers will one day routinely be deployed in space instead of on Earth, Isaacman said the prevalence of low-orbit models will come down to economics.

“Your data center is eventually going to burn up and come back home, and then the cost to potentially replace that — does that close? And I think it will. It may not for the first few years, but over time it will.”

U.S. communities have increasingly opposed development of data centers to support AI in part because of the scale of energy and water the facilities require.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/the-hill/us-china-moon-race-timeline/

https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2103486015046369302

https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2103523259572727865

moar

https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2103522100950478947

https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2103174729410781691

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-particle-accelerator-could-create-dark-matter-from-empty-space

https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/4nc7-cw6l

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7yXqF32Yvw (PBS Space Time: Are Axions Dark Matter?)

A Particle Accelerator Could Create Dark Matter From Empty Space

25 September 2026

There's something hinky about the amount of gravity in the Universe.

When all the normal matter and the gravity that should come with it have been totted up, a discrepancy emerges in the final numbers.

Not just a smidge, a little skimming off the top, a one here or a zero there: there's way more gravity than there is normal matter to make it.

We call the unknown source of the gravity excess dark matter, and scientists estimate there's roughly five times as much of it as there is normal matter in the Universe.

That means the mystery matter should be absolutely everywhere, and so it is, as far as physicists can tell. But we still don't know what it is, let alone how to make it.

Now, a theoretical paper has identified a new recipe we could try.

What if, ask theoretical physicists Stefan Evans and Ralf Schützhold of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in Germany, we just took a bunch of atomic nuclei and gave them a good, hard shake?

OK, not literally – and obviously there's a good bit more to it than a nucleus maraca.

But the pair proposes that if nuclei are accelerated hard enough in a particle accelerator, they could disturb the quantum vacuum in just the right way to produce pairs of axions – hypothetical particles that could make up dark matter.

"Accelerated nuclei such as in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions can create entangled pairs of axions in analogy to the dynamical Casimir effect which can also be interpreted as signatures of the Unruh effect," they explain.

Well, duh. But let's elaborate a bit anyway.

We'll start with axions.

These hypothetical particles have been kicking around for nearly half a century, although dark matter wasn't the problem they were originally proposed to solve.

That problem lies in quantum chromodynamics, or QCD, the theory that describes the strong force binding quarks together to form protons and neutrons, which cluster together in atoms to form the nucleus.

QCD allows for a particular kind of symmetry violation that, for reasons physicists don't understand, simply doesn't seem to happen. That part isn't really relevant to this paper, so we won't go further into it.

What is relevant is that the axion emerged from a proposed solution to this puzzle. As an unexpected bonus, the properties of the hypothetical particle also made it a compelling dark-matter candidate.

Which gives the axion a foot in two worlds: QCD and dark matter.

It's the QCD foot that's pertinent here.

One of the many weird things about QCD is that even apparently empty space isn't truly empty. The quantum vacuum contains a background called the quark condensate, made up of quark-antiquark pairs.

Inside an atomic nucleus, however, that condensate is weaker – and that's important because the strength of the quark condensate helps determine the effective mass of an axion.

This means that if axions exist, they should be effectively lighter inside an atomic nucleus than outside it – making the nucleus a different kind of medium for axions, a little like water is a different medium for light than air.

This still makes a difference even when no axions are hanging around.

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Quantum mechanics doesn't allow even completely empty space to be perfectly featureless and still. Instead, the fields that permeate space retain an irreducible background of quantum activity, known as vacuum fluctuations.

One strange consequence of those fluctuations is known as the Casimir effect. Place two objects extremely close together, and they can change which fluctuations are possible in the space between them compared with the space outside.

The resulting change in the field's vacuum energy can produce a measurable force between the objects.

In its best-known form, the Casimir effect involves the electromagnetic field and two closely spaced conducting plates – but the same underlying physics can, in principle, arise with other quantum fields, too.

Evans and Schützhold reasoned that something similar should happen with the axion field. Since a nucleus changes an axion's effective mass, it should also change the vacuum fluctuations of the axion field around it.

Their calculations suggest that if you put two nuclei close together, those altered fluctuations should generate an attractive Casimir-like force between them.

OK, so we have two nuclei sitting still, feeling a little attracted.

But the Casimir effect does something even weirder when stuff starts moving in just the right way.

If the thing disturbing a quantum field changes sufficiently rapidly, that disturbance can inject energy into the field, converting its vacuum fluctuations into pairs of real particles.

That's the dynamical Casimir effect, and it's not just theory. Physicists have seen it produce real photons. This is where our nucleus maraca comes back in.

A nucleus already changes the vacuum fluctuations of the axion field simply by existing. But if you accelerate that nucleus hard enough, the region of the altered axion field moves in just the right way to produce the dynamical version of the Casimir effect.

Some of the energy involved in rapidly accelerating the nucleus can then emerge as a pair of real, entangled axions. Strangely, there's another way of understanding the same process.

According to the Unruh effect, an observer undergoing constant acceleration should experience what looks like empty space to an unaccelerated observer as a warm bath of particles.

he harder the acceleration, the hotter that apparent bath becomes.

So, from the perspective of an accelerated nucleus, the empty vacuum would appear to contain a nice warm bath of axions. The nucleus could scatter an axion from that bath.

From our unaccelerated perspective, however, there is no axion bath – so we would instead see a hurtling nucleus appear to pop a pair of entangled axions out of the vacuum.

It sounds utterly demented, and utterly impossible – but we may, the researchers explained, already have the technology to put the idea to the test.

Evans and Schützhold propose ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions as one possible setting.

These are near-misses between atomic nuclei traveling at relativistic speeds, in which their powerful electromagnetic fields interact without the nuclei themselves colliding.

During such a close encounter, the nuclei undergo the abrupt change in motion the proposed mechanism requires.

It might not work. The estimated odds of producing an axion pair depend strongly on the axion's mass, and even if one is produced, detecting it is another challenge entirely.

You might need a sensitive liquid-xenon dark matter detector, for instance, and the axion would need to travel in the right direction to hit it. So it's likely to be very difficult.

Still, it might be worth a shot. After all, you can't make axion soup without breaking a few eggs.

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Project Suncatcher: Google to launch first space data center test in orbit next week

September 25, 2026

TPUs are ready to catch some rays, hyperscaler claims

Google will launch its AI chips into orbit for the first time next week as its Project Suncatcher space data center program takes another step forward.

The hyperscaler said it will conduct its first test in orbit, launching a prototype satellite to evaluate how its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) AI hardware performs in space.

Details of Project Suncatcher were first revealed last year, with Google stating it would have a two-satellite constellation up and running by 2027.

It is part of a wave of space data center projects being undertaken by some of the biggest names in tech, as companies explore whether off-planet compute can provide additional capacity to run AI systems.

The likes of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin have revealed this year that they are seeking regulatory approval of orbital compute clusters.

This initial Project Suncatcher deployment will be launched into space on the upcoming Transporter-18 rideshare SpaceX mission, which will transport craft from several different vendors into low Earth orbit (LEO), and is scheduled to take off on October 1.

Google’s system has been developed in partnership with satellite firm Planet Labs.

Google’s Project Suncatcher: Shaking and radiating

The initial test craft, which Google has named MVP, per a report from the New York Times, will feature just four TPUs, which will be powered by solar panels supplying them with 1kW.

In a blog post about Project Suncatcher, Travis Beals, Google’s senior director for paradigms of intelligence, revealed some of the challenges the team has been trying to solve to ready its compute infrastructure for space.

To try and combat the vibrations the chips will experience when being blasted into space, as well as high g-force in LEO, the Suncatcher team conducted vibration testing by intensely shaking the satellite on all three axes to mimic the frequencies of a rocket launch.

“Tests like this rarely go as planned, so we were pleasantly surprised that the hardware held up to the force,” Beals said.

The TPUs were also tested in a proton beam facility at UC Davis’s Crocker Nuclear Laboratory while running AI workloads, to try and simulate how the hardware would perform when facing the high levels of radiation it will encounter outside the Earth’s atmosphere.

This radiation can play havoc with electronic systems. “During the test, we monitored closely to see how errors, like a bitflip, would affect our workloads,” Beals said.

“Initial results have shown that our Trillium TPUs hold up remarkably well, and can survive a radiation total ionizing dose greater than what they would receive during a five-year space mission.”

Cooling and connectivity

The cold conditions found in space are often cited as a potential benefit for orbital data centers, but the lack of atmosphere also means there is no airflow to transfer heat away from the components.

Beals said Google is working on a number of different approaches to cooling its satellites, including “a combination of heat pipes and radiators to cool the chips.”

He said: “So far, our team has tested the technology in a thermal vacuum chamber that simulates both the thermal and vacuum environment in space.

We’ll see how our new TPU cooling system works in space and refine our designs as we learn more.”

Google has said previously that it envisions 1km (0.6 mile) arrays of 81-satellite compute clusters. These will be connected via laser links, Beals said. Constellations like SpaceX's Starlink network already use laser-based communication.

“The technology in space already exists, but most state-of-the-art systems are optimized for low bandwidth across large distances, whereas our lasers need to operate at very high bandwidth over extremely short distances,” Beals explained.

“Maintaining the necessary connection requires extraordinary precision, similar to hitting a coin-size target from miles away while both points are in motion. We’ll test our work on this in 2027 when we put two satellites in orbit.”

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/project-suncatcher-google-to-launch-first-space-data-center-test-in-orbit-next-week/

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatcher-facts/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1JK79jszqo

'Owlright, Owlright, Owlright': Watch Rocket Lab launch private Japanese radar satellite tonight

September 25, 2026

Rocket Lab is feeling “owlright” about tonight's launch of a Strix satellite for Japanese company Synspective's imaging constellation.

The mission, called “Owlright, Owlright, Owlright,” is scheduled to lift off aboard an Electron rocket from Pad B at Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand this evening (Sept. 25), at 8:15 p.m. EDT (0015 GMT on Sept. 26).

It will be the 13th Strix satellite that Rocket Lab delivers to orbit for Synspective, which is building a constellation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) spacecraft to collect Earth imaging data for municipality management efforts around city planning and infrastructure, as well as natural disaster response.

The launch will stream live on Space.com, courtesy of Rocket Lab, as well as on the company's website, beginning about 30 minutes before liftoff.

Owlright, Owlright, Owlright will be Rocket Lab's 96th launch overall, and its 18th so far in 2026. This mission will bring Electron’s 2026 total to 15, with three other launches this year of Rocket Lab’s suborbital HASTE rocket rounding out the sum.

Electron is Rocket Lab's workhorse launch vehicle. It stands 59 feet tall (18 meters), and sports a launch capacity to low Earth orbit (LEO) up to 661 pounds (300 kilograms).

Synspective’s Strix spacecraft weigh about 220 pounds (100 kg) each, and expand to a lengthy 16.4 feet (5 meters) wide after SAR antenna deployment.

Rocket Lab has committed to launching the entirety of Synspective’s Strix constellation, which aims to deliver 30 spacecraft to LEO by the end of the decade.

Living up to their namesake — Strix is a genus of owl — the SAR satellites are designed to collect Earth-observation data even in poor lighting conditions, and can peer through cloud cover to study the ground below.

As the constellation expands, each Strix satellite has been delivered to a slightly different orbital destination.

If all goes according to plan, Electron will launch the Owlright, Owlright, Owlright payload into a 37-degree orbital inclination, for deployment at a LEO altitude of 347 miles (559 kilometers).

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/owlright-owlright-owlright-watch-rocket-lab-launch-private-japanese-radar-satellite-tonight

https://rocketlabcorp.com/missions/launches/owlright-owlright-owlright/

https://x.com/RocketLab/status/2103324964082577438

https://rocketlabcorp.com/live-stream/

https://www.patrick.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4609107/air-force-materiel-command-command-first-sergeant-visits-space-launch-delta-45/

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https://www.starcom.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4611148/new-telescope-expands-space-test-training-for-the-593rd-test-and-evaluation-squ/

https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/Newsroom/Article-Display/Article/4482076/acquiring-minds-episode-11-unified-data-library

https://www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4610712/hawk-connection-day-2026/

https://www.eielson.af.mil/News/Display/Article/4610671/eielson-hosted-the-pegase-26-french-air-and-space-force/

https://www.eielson.af.mil/News/Display/Article/4610905/eielson-hosted-air-and-space-force-attach-visit/

Air Force Materiel Command Command First Sergeant visits Space Launch Delta 45

Sept. 25, 2026

U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Keelye Coffin, Air Force Materiel Command command first sergeant, visited Patrick Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on Sept. 8-9 to engage with Airmen, Guardians, and senior leaders.

In her role as AFMC Command First Sergeant, Coffin has oversight of the First Sergeants assigned to Space Launch Delta 45. This visit provided an opportunity to gain a firsthand look at the missions taking place across the installations while connecting with First Sergeants, Airmen and Guardians who support the U.S. Space Force’s launch mission.

In its organizational structure, the U.S. Space Force has Field Commands that oversee multiple Deltas. Within this construct, Space Systems Command oversees units such as Space Launch Delta 45 and Space Launch Delta 30, among others.

This is similar to how the U.S. Air Force has Major Commands such as Air Force Materiel Command and Air Combat Command. These MAJCOMS support and manage a large number of units and bases.

Airmen supporting the space mission in units like SLD 45 fall under the field commands of their bases as well as the AFMC MAJCOM.

“When the U.S. Space Force was first stood up, there wasn't a supporting MAJCOM initially assigned, but because many of their bases previously fell under AFMC, we took on the responsibility,” said Coffin.

“The Space Force has continued to grow, and Field Commands like SSC have been activated and taken on more of the roles of a traditional servicing MAJCOM for their Space Force bases.

In my role, we still support the First Sergeants that are at Space Force installations and help in areas such as mentorship and development.”

First sergeants in the Air and Space Forces serve as dedicated senior enlisted advisors to the unit commander, focusing on the health, morale, welfare and readiness of service members and their families.

They act as a key bridge between leadership and the enlisted force and ensure standards and discipline are maintained while advocating directly for the needs of personnel so the unit remains fully mission-ready.

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During her visit, Coffin spent time with the First Sergeants of Patrick Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. This included group meetings as well as one-on-one sessions with the first sergeants.

While First Sergeants take care of the service members in their units, they also need support for themselves, which is the role that Coffin serves.

“It's a lot of work to be a First Sergeant,” said Coffin. “It's a lot of taking care of other people, so, in my job, I try to build relationships with them so that when they're going through something, they know that they can call me as another First Sergeant to help take care of them.”

In addition to personal support, Coffin also provides professional guidance to the First Sergeants under her MAJCOM.

“As Command First Sergeant, I’m responsible for all the first sergeants at AFMC locations to include Space Force bases, and I have about 110 first sergeants that I take care of,” said Coffin.

“I work with the Command Chiefs and leadership to take care of the First Sergeants from the time they decide to take on the position.”

During this trip, beyond building relationships, she also participated in a Chief’s panel with Airman Leadership School students and spoke with SLD 45 members who had recently returned from deployments.

After visits like these, Coffin returns to AFMC headquarters to report on the trends and areas the MAJCOM can focus on. Currently, there is an increased importance on helping members with the stresses that can result from a deployment.

“I’ve been speaking with people who have come back from a deployment to see if they can give some advice on how we as a MAJCOM can help with reintegration,” said Coffin.

“We’re asking, ‘How can we help them when they come back or even before they go? How can we prepare them for what they may experience while they're deployed in dynamic environments?’”.

Throughout her visit, Coffin also learned more about the responsibilities and the challenges Airmen face while operating in a predominantly Space Force environment.

“Not everybody understands the unique demands of the space mission,” said Coffin. “I like to make these trips to see what the service members are experiencing and see how they take care of the mission at these locations so that I can figure out how to best support them.”

As the Space Force continues to operate alongside the Air Force across the Department of the Air Force, visits like this one help strengthen the ties between Airmen in support of the space mission and their MAJCOM, as well as those who have taken on the responsibility to exclusively devote themselves to the care of Airmen and Guardians as First Sergeants.

“When we take care of each other, it makes it a little easier when we face challenges because we've already built relationships we can rely on,” said Coffin.

“Whether it’s a First Sergeant or the team as a whole, when we support each other every day, it ensures that we can come to work and give 100% to the mission.”

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>>25076424

Noice, and there's probably more working on it.

I'm excited for the day when we tear down all the powerlines, because they are the ugliest shit ever.

Space Force Association

@SpaceForceAssoc

It's here: the National Spacepower Review, a new publication on the future of national security space. The 1st issue examines how the Space Force was built & where it's headed.

Plus: our new series Beyond the Page kicks off with CSO Gen. Douglas Schiess: https://ussfa.org/national-spacepower-center/nspc-thought-leadership/

1:01 PM · Sep 24, 2026

https://x.com/SpaceForceAssoc/status/2103213318743679171

https://ussfa.org/national-spacepower-center/nspc-thought-leadership/

https://ussfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/The-National-Spacepower-Review.pdf

moar Space Force

https://x.com/SpaceForceAssoc/status/2103446935352783228

https://ussfa.org/sfa-store/

https://x.com/USSpaceForce/status/2102835469230747833

https://x.com/USSpaceForce/status/2103211676384326125

ESA and the EU partner with Museo Galileo on new exhibition

25/09/2026

The European Space Agency (ESA), Italy’s Museo Galileo - Institute and Museum of the History of Science, and the European Commission (EC) have partnered to uncover the surprising and far-reaching connections between the pioneer astronomer Galileo Galilei and Europe’s satellite navigation system Galileo.

Galileo Galilei’s discoveries in astronomy, physics and time measurements fundamentally influenced the development of navigation.

His observations of Jupiter’s four largest moons ultimately inspired a technique used by cartographers to determine longitude while his advancements in physics, timekeeping and scientific instrumentation laid the groundwork for more accurate navigation.

Galilei’s impact continues to this day, with modern satellite navigation science and technology resting on this foundation. In tribute to the famous Italian scientist, the European Union named its satellite navigation system Galileo.

Now, to further the link between the scientist and the system that bears his name, ESA and the Commission have partnered with Museo Galileo, an institution dedicated to the research, documentation and dissemination of the history of science, for an exceptional exhibition.

Conceived as a journey between past and future, it will take visitors from Galileo Galilei’s first observations of the cosmos to today's most precise satellite navigation system, highlighting how space applications shape our daily lives.

On 25 June 2026, Javier Benedicto, ESA Director of Navigation at the time, and Roberto Ferrari, Museo Galileo Director, signed an agreement to develop the exhibition, which is set to open in December 2027.

“With this partnership we aim to highlight how Galileo, both the scientist and the satellite system, are profoundly connected, and how centuries of scientific progress stemming from Galileo Galilei’s intuition coalesced in a navigation system that serves European society, economy, science and security” said Benedicto.

“What is our place in the world? The exhibition project developed with ESA and the Commission tells the story of a puzzle that for centuries has attracted the attention of philosophers and scientists and that with Galileo reaches a turning point.

It is the story of an idea that after four hundred years becomes reality. This collaboration is a unique opportunity to present to European and international citizens how satellite navigation has deep roots in history and a great impact on everyday life,” added Ferrari.

“The satellite navigation system Galileo is a flagship example of how Europe’s scientific heritage continues to shape world‑leading technology and infrastructure.

Galileo underpins the EU's economy and delivers tangible benefits to billions of citizens every day,” said Timo Pesonen, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS).

Jointly curated by the three entities and their industrial partners, the exhibition will trace a fascinating journey through the history of science, combining original instruments, documents and objects from the museum’s collection, exclusive audiovisual productions, interactive experiences, alongside technological equipment and models contributed by ESA.

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Galileo/ESA_and_the_EU_partner_with_Museo_Galileo_on_new_exhibition

moar ESA and UK

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Three_Earth_Explorer_candidates_go_forward

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/09/MIRROR_robot_reflects_future_of_in-orbit_assembly

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/09/Earth_from_Space_Venetian_Lagoon

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/space-museum-launched-britains-first-164913080.html

https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Week_in_images/Week_in_images_21-25_Sep_2026

Russia not preparing for war with Europe – Putin

25 Sep, 2026 17:28 | Updated 25 Sep, 2026 18:16

Western claims of a Russian threat are a “deliberate” attempt to inflame tensions, the president has said

Moscow is not preparing for military action against European countries, President Vladimir Putin has said, dismissing claims of a Russian threat as an attempt to inflame tensions.

Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the 12th United Cultures Forum in St. Petersburg on Friday, Putin said European countries were fueling tensions in order to continue supporting Ukraine.

He accused “aggressive circles” in Europe of seeking to use Ukraine as “cannon fodder” to constrain Russia’s development.

Putin described remarks by the Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur about a possible conflict with Russia as a “provocation,” and referred to statements about the benefits of a preemptive attack on Russia as “political clownery.”

“The circus has left, but the clowns remain,” he said.

Putin also addressed the prospect of renewed talks with Kiev, saying Moscow would base any decision on Russia’s own interests.

According to the president, Ukraine has been actively raising the prospect of a ceasefire, including on attacks against energy infrastructure, as well as an end to the blockade of Russia’s Black Sea coast, while continuing its own strikes on Russia.

Russia responded to attacks on civilian targets and attempts to blockade its Black Sea coast, Putin said, particularly pointing to the “mass” Ukrainian attack on Moscow on September 20, as well as attacks on residential buildings and election officials. He described Russia’s retaliation as “sensitive and destructive” for Ukrainian forces.

“They must feel these retaliatory strikes by Russia and understand that no provocative actions, no escalation of the situation will lead to the result they want. They will only make their position worse,” the Russian president said.

According to Putin, claims that Moscow intends to attack Europe are being used to justify continued spending on Ukraine to European citizens.

“This is complete nonsense,” he said.

https://www.rt.com/russia/646256-putin-russia-eu-ukraine-conflict/

moar RT

https://www.rt.com/russia/646243-ukraine-kills-humanitarian-workers/

https://www.rt.com/news/646233-russian-drones-mundo-refuted/

https://www.rt.com/news/646185-ukrainian-stabs-five-polish-convent/

https://www.rt.com/news/646251-attacks-ukrainians-poland-grow-ambassador/

Russia will step up hybrid attacks beyond NATO as Ukraine offers partners help — Zelenskyy

September 25, 2026, 07:06 AM

Russia will continue hybrid and drone attacks against various countries, not only NATO members, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during an audio briefing with journalists on Sept. 25.

“Russia will continue hybrid attacks against various countries, not only NATO members.

We are seeing hybrid attacks and drone attacks against Moldova, which is not a member of NATO or the European Union, as well as against Germany, Romania and other countries.

We have offered our assistance to various countries, primarily, of course, to those that are helping us during the war,” he said.

Zelenskyy stressed that bilateral Drone Deal agreements involve not only the joint production or supply of drones and missiles but also the exchange of expertise.

The president also said Ukraine would receive licenses to produce Patriot missiles capable of intercepting ballistic missiles.

In addition, he said the United States has proposed holding a trilateral meeting with representatives of Ukraine and Russia in the United Arab Emirates.

The Ukrainian leader also said he expects to receive information from the U.S. side on the results of talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping regarding the war in Ukraine.

https://english.nv.ua/nation/zelenskyy-warns-russia-will-continue-hybrid-and-drone-attacks-50644664.html

other Russia and Ukraine

https://english.nv.ua/nation/novoshakhtinsk-refinery-halts-operations-after-drone-attack-50644657.html

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/mcdonald-s-confirms-russian-drone-attack-1790355311.html

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/25/seventeen-makers-head-to-michigan-to-test-bomber-drones-for-the-pentagon-and-ukrainian-firms-are-back-in-field-some-under-us-partners/

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/british-companies-to-access-prized-ukraine-data-to-develop-ai-drone-swarms

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/major-russian-lukoil-refinery-targeted-in-second-drone-attack-since-august-22851

https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-warns-ukraine-could-face-serious-challenges-with-drones-this-winter-amid-budget-deficit/

https://kyivindependent.com/exclusive-majority-of-companies-involved-in-russian-molniya-drone-production-unsanctioned-research-shows/

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-uk-ai-partnership-targets-drone-swarms-that-could-independently-identify-enemy-targets-22874

>>25076476

not even a little bit!

>>25076564

Seen a few things over the years.

All I can come up with right now is the fuel free generator, but I forget the company name.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/2026-09-25/live-updates-909655

other Israel

https://www.ifcj.org/news/stand-for-israel-blog/two-idf-soldiers-killed-in-drone-accident

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-warns-it-will-keep-targeting-hamas-moneymen-in-gaza-16-killed-so-far/

https://vinnews.com/2026/09/25/idf-kills-two-hamas-terrorists-in-gaza-city-including-oct-7-infiltrator-who-held-hostages/

https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/tlxalp

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israeli-troops-destroy-mile-long-hamas-tunnel-in-idf-held-portion-of-gaza-strip/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-it-launched-interceptor-at-suspicious-aerial-target-in-southern-lebanon/

Live Updates: Abraham Accords partners meet in New York as Yemen calls on citizens to join fight against Houthis

September 25, 10:01 PM

Trump tells Xi that China helping Iran is unacceptable • IDF kills two Hamas terrorists who held Israeli hostages in Gaza • Iran submits plan to reopen Hormuz in seven days

September 25, 8:37 PM

Yemen calls on citizens to join Yemeni armed forces, fight Iran-backed Houthis

Yemen’s Presidential Council chairman, Rashad al-Alimi, also said that any Houthi terrorists who defect from the group and stop fighting will receive full amnesty.

Yemen’s Presidential Council chairman, Rashad al-Alimi, called on the Yemeni people to mobilize and join Yemen’s armed forces to combat the Iran-backed Houthis in a statement released on Friday.

Alimi also said that any Houthi terrorists who defect from the group and stop fighting will receive full amnesty.

This is a developing story.

September 25, 7:05 PM

Israel, US officials meet Abraham Accords partners in New York to expand regional cooperation

The meeting focused on the next stage of the Abraham Accords: translating diplomatic ties into practical cooperation.

Senior officials from Israel, the United States, and countries participating in the Abraham Accords reconvened in New York on Thursday for the group’s first multilateral meeting since January 2023, signaling renewed efforts to deepen regional cooperation and expand the normalization framework after years of regional upheaval.

The high-level roundtable, convened by the N7 Foundation and chaired by its chairman and founder Jeffrey M. Talpins, brought together US Under Secretary of State Allison Hooker and senior officials from Israel, Bahrain, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Kazakhstan. It marked the first official engagement of Abraham Accords countries to include Kazakhstan, which is preparing to join the framework.

September 25, 6:37 PM

IDF kills two Hamas terrorists who participated in Oct. 7 massacre, held Israeli hostages

According to the IDF, Hamas terrorist commander Hassan Mahmoud Siam held Amit Soussana, Keith and Aviva Siegel, and Dafna Elyakim hostage over the course of their captivity in Gaza.

The IDF killed two Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Israel during the October 7 massacre and held Israeli hostages captive, during strikes on the Gaza Strip, the military confirmed on Friday.

Hassan Mahmoud Siam, a Hamas terrorist commander, was killed in Gaza City on Wednesday. Siam participated in the October 7 massacre and was involved in holding multiple Israeli hostages captive.

According to the IDF, Siam held Amit Soussana, Keith and Aviva Siegel, and Dafna Elyakim hostage over the course of the war.

Hamas terrorist Adham Sabhi Salim Ziara was killed in a separate strike on Gaza City on Tuesday.

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September 25, 5:17 PM

West Bank structures demolished by Israel Border Police

Ten illegal structures at the entrance of the West Bank villages of Azun and Mitzpe Adumim, an area surrounding Ma’ale Adumim, were demolished by Border Police officers on Friday, Israel Police said in a statement.

September 25, 3:49 PM

Trump told Xi that China helping Iran is unacceptable, US ambassador says

US President Donald Trump made clear during candid talks at the White House with Chinese President Xi Jinping that Chinese help for Iran is unacceptable, US Ambassador to China David Perdue told CNBC on Friday.

September 25, 2:09 PM

IDF investigating interceptor launch in Metula

The IDF is investigating an interceptor who was launched in Metula into Lebanon for unknown reasons on Friday.

September 25, 1:03 PM

WATCH: IDF destroys two km. long terror tunnel below Gaza

The IDF destroys a terror tunnel in Gaza. (Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

The IDF demolished a terror tunnel below Gaza which was approximately two kilometers long, the military announced on Friday.

September 25, 12:37 PM

IDF seals terrorist's house in preparation for demolition

The IDF sealed the home of the terrorist who conducted Sunday's shooting attack in Neveh Tzuf, which killed Netanel Chkroun, in preparation for its demolition, the military said on Friday.

September 25, 12:19 PM

Iraq suspends all flights to and from Iran through Najaf airport starting on Friday

Iraq's Najaf International Airport has suspended all flights to and from Iran starting on Friday, the state news agency reported.

Two sources told Reuters earlier that Iraq was discussing diverting Iranian flights from Baghdad to Najaf after ordering its civil aviation authority to suspend Iranian flights to Baghdad airport from Wednesday, following a US threat to sanction any airport that services Iranian carriers.

September 25, 12:19 PM

IDF kills two Hamas terrorists, in Gaza, incl. one who transferred millions to terror group

The IDF killed two Hamas terrorists in Gaza on Thursday, including one who was responsible for the transfer of millions of shekels in foreign currency to the terror group, the military announced on Friday.

One terrorist, Jabr Moqbel, led the “Moqbel” money exchange network. The other, Hasan al-Batta, was a sniper in Hamas' military wing.

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UFO whistleblower says government has recovered craft and aliens may want our genes

September 25, 2026

Wild hypotheses on the airwaves.

Key takeaways:

Dylan Borland claimed the US government has recovered alien craft, saying he knows it "for a fact."

Borland speculated that extraterrestrials may focus on genes and reproduction, possibly to replace humans on Earth.

UFO investigator Ben Hansen said alleged abductions can happen in suburban homes and are not pleasant.

Reddit commenters criticized the podcast for relying on speculation instead of factual analysis.

So-called UFO whistleblower Dylan Borland made his claims while speaking on Hang Out with Sean Hannity about the government retrieving alien aircraft, aliens abducting humans, and using Earth as their new potential planet.

On the podcast was the usual talk of the US government having recovered alien craft, with Borland claiming he knows “for a fact” that this was the case.

He also discussed why extra-terrestrials might be here.

Host Sean Hannity made the assertion that “it may not be as malevolent as maybe some people would naively think,” adding that “there seems to be an interest in getting something from us” and them needing to keep their species alive.

The next logical step in this supposition would be how aliens take abductees on board to do testing.

UFO investigator Ben Hansen appeared alongside Borland, claiming that abductions happen in people's homes in suburbia and that "no one claims it's Disneyland and sunshine and roses.”

Hansen also explained that humans don’t bat an eyelid concerning our treatment of insects, whether experimenting or stepping on them.

And rather than face the binary of black or white, Borland explored the fact that the wider populace are more open to connecting the dots.

If you open that door, a lot of people, even if it’s not true, believe in that possibility, [and] there’ll be a segment of society whose imagination will fill in that gap.

He agreed with Hannity that “it seems to do with genes, reproduction,” saying that “this is literally a hypothetical: maybe their planet's dead and they're coming here to replace us.”

Borland stepped into the whistleblowing spotlight in September 2025, following his congressional testimony regarding a 2012 encounter with a triangular craft at a US air base.

His reported firsthand account differs from those of other distinguished figures like Matthew Brown, Luis Elizondo, or David Grusch, whose claims rely primarily on audited documents, intelligence reports, and witness interviews.

Reddit is not so sure, however

Though podcasts such as Hang Out give license to hypothesize, a selection of Redditors on the r/UFO forum were displeased with the lack of factual analysis during the discussion.

“I would prefer so-called whistleblowers to stick with facts and not go on shows to make wild speculations and what-ifs,” said one commenter, while another, @R2robot, accused Borland of diluting his reputation.

It just turns these podcasts into people pitching science fiction story concepts at each other.

On top of that, the broader context of whistleblowers was brought to the table, with comparisons of Borland and Brown given for experiential reasons.

“Seeing a single craft in the jungle doesn’t make you a respected voice on hypothetical interplanetary alien dynamics. Seeing one PDF on a server doesn’t qualify you to theorize on god and the universe.”

To Borland's defense came commenter @Grismundgames, who accounted for the added depth to Borland's black triangle encounter: “He’s hinted that there’s more to that event, but he’s not at liberty to say.”

The Redditor suggested Brown was a pontificator as he is “not an insider in any capacity.”

Still, perhaps a drop of speculation can be more refreshing than the lockstep of bureaucratic whistleblowing.

https://cybernews.com/news/ufo-uap-disclosure-dylan-borland-sean-hannity/

https://noticias.foxnews.com/media/uap-whistleblower-stunning-claim-secrets-government-recovered-craft

https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/ufo-whistleblower-claims-government-recovered-alien-craft-1451180.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBG-2L2NBlg (If Aliens Wanted to Destroy Us, Wouldn't They Have Done It Already?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTPnt2LDs6U (Whistleblower: US Government Recovered Non-Human Tech | Hang Out with Sean Hannity)

https://usaherald.com/what-if-they-are-not-from-another-planet-u-s-law-leaves-the-origin-of-non-human-intelligence-wide-open/

What If They Are Not From Another Planet? U.S. Law Leaves the Origin of Non-Human Intelligence Wide Open

September 25, 2026

Key Takeaways

The popular assumption that a genuinely nonhuman UAP intelligence would necessarily come from another planet goes considerably further than what current evidence establishes.

Federal UAP policy has increasingly used the broader term “non-human intelligence,” while the National Archives is collecting government records concerning UAP, technologies of unknown origin and NHI.

NASA and the Pentagon say there is currently no verified evidence that UAP represent extraterrestrial technology, much less beings originating from another planet. The unresolved scientific question is therefore considerably larger than “Which planet are they from?”

For nearly a century, the modern UFO question has usually started with an assumption, that if some unidentified objects represent technology controlled by a nonhuman intelligence, their operators must be extraterrestrials who traveled to Earth from another planet.

But what if that assumption is wrong?

There is an enormous conceptual difference between something originating on another planet and something originating in another world — meaning another domain, dimension or presently unknown layer of physical reality.

That distinction may sound like science fiction. Yet remarkably, the language surrounding America's UAP examination has become broad enough that the government does not necessarily have to answer the question by pointing toward another star.

Federal records law now requires the National Archives and Records Administration to maintain a UAP records collection encompassing government records involving unidentified anomalous phenomena, technologies of unknown origin, and non-human intelligence.

That terminology matters.

It does not prove that non-human intelligence exists, nor does congressional use of a term constitute scientific evidence for the thing being described.

Legislation routinely defines categories broadly enough to cover possibilities lawmakers want agencies to search for or preserve records about.

But non-human intelligence is nevertheless much broader than extraterrestrial.

The language used in the UAP Disclosure Act defines NHI as a sentient intelligent nonhuman life-form regardless of nature or ultimate origin.

Those last words create an extraordinary conceptual distinction.

Ultimate origin does not have to mean another planet.

Under the conventional extraterrestrial hypothesis, another civilization evolved somewhere else in the universe, developed extraordinarily advanced propulsion and crossed interstellar distances before reaching Earth.

That hypothesis carries enormous engineering problems, but nothing about traveling between stars inherently contradicts known physics.

An inter-dimensional hypothesis is fundamentally different.

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>>25076743

Instead of asking whether something traveled from another location within our universe, it asks whether reality itself could contain domains that humans normally cannot perceive or access — and whether interaction between those domains could somehow occur.

Modern theoretical physics contains mathematical frameworks involving additional dimensions, unusual spacetime geometries and multiple-universe models.

Scientifically, it illustrates why determining the origin of a genuinely anomalous phenomenon requires evidence rather than assuming extraterrestrial origin from the beginning.

NASA itself has taken essentially that methodological position.

Its UAP independent study concluded that there are too few high-quality observations to draw firm scientific conclusions about UAP origins. NASA says it has found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial life and no evidence that UAP are extraterrestrial.

NASA's 2023 study nevertheless acknowledged that searching for extraterrestrial technological signatures is scientifically legitimate while emphasizing that existing UAP reports provide no reason to conclude they have an extraterrestrial source.

That leaves an important logical point often lost in the UFO debate:

Unidentified does not mean extraterrestrial. But neither does unidentified tell us what category the eventual explanation must belong to.

The Pentagon Remains More Skeptical

The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office has reached similarly cautious — and in several respects more skeptical — conclusions.

AARO's historical review reported that it found no evidence that a U.S. government investigation, academic research effort or official review had confirmed a UAP sighting as extraterrestrial technology.

It also reported finding no empirical evidence substantiating allegations that the government and private industry have secretly reverse-engineered extraterrestrial technology.

AARO continues publishing resolved and unresolved cases.

One publicly released 2024 Middle East case, for example, remained unresolved because investigators lacked corroborating telemetry and multiple sensor sources necessary to determine whether the observed signature represented a physical object or a sensor effect.

That example demonstrates the central problem. A mystery is not evidence of an extraordinary explanation.

But insufficient evidence for an extraordinary explanation is also not the same thing as identifying what happened.

Why “Another World” Is an Ancient Idea

There is another dimension to this discussion that science alone cannot resolve.

Human civilization has described intelligent nonhuman entities arriving from another realm for thousands of years.

Biblical literature describes angels as belonging to a heavenly domain rather than inhabitants of another physical planet.

Genesis, Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation contain accounts of nonhuman beings or extraordinary manifestations entering the human environment.

The ancient Book of Enoch goes further, describing the Watchers as heavenly beings descending into the human world and interacting directly with humanity.

Ancient civilizations generally did not say mysterious intelligence traveled here from planets orbiting distant stars. Their cosmologies described interaction between realms.

Modern culture changed the vocabulary.

‘Heavens’ became outer space.

Other realms became other planets.

Celestial beings became extraterrestrials.

And chariots in the sky became spacecraft.

Whether those similarities reflect anything beyond humanity repeatedly attempting to explain unusual experiences through the worldview available at the time remains an open historical and philosophical question.

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https://phys.org/news/2026-09-great-news-saturn-moon-enceladus.html

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16159863/Saturn-moon-harbour-ALIEN-life.html

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aee7256

Great news from Saturn's moon Enceladus in the search for life in space

September 25, 2026

What are the chances of finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system?

Frank Postberg, a professor of planetary science at Freie Universität Berlin, has published a study in Science Advances with an international team of researchers.

They present new evidence that it is easier to determine the constituents of the ocean hidden beneath Enceladus's icy surface than previously assumed.

Postberg also contributed to a second study published the same day.

In that study, he and another planetary scientist from Freie Universität, Dr. Nozair Khawaja, helped show that certain microorganisms could tolerate the conditions in Enceladus's ocean better than previously thought.

The results increase the likelihood of finding evidence of life on Saturn's moon.

What makes Enceladus so attractive in the search for life in space?

Enceladus is considered one of the most promising places to search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system. Researchers suspect that a global ocean of liquid water lies beneath the moon's icy crust, with a rocky core farther below.

Due to cryovolcanic activity, gigantic plumes break through cracks in the crust at the moon's south pole, ejecting ice particles hundreds of kilometers into space.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft passed through these plumes multiple times to analyze their composition. Enceladus's ocean is the only extraterrestrial "body of water" from which scientists have been able to directly analyze samples.

The samples revealed traces of various salts and organic compounds. Previous analyses by Cassini also indicated hydrothermal processes on the seafloor and other conditions that could support life.

Enceladus ice plumes separate and sort the ocean's components

Postberg's study, "Cassini CDA Observes Compositional Segregation of Enceladus' Ice Grains from Slow Freezing and Fragmentation of Oceanic Spray," includes surprising findings about what happens to the ocean water on its way into space.

The international team used Cassini data, long-term laboratory experiments and theoretical models to reconstruct the process.

Droplets form at the ocean's surface as gas-filled bubbles rise and pop. Water vapor then carries the droplets through cracks in the ice shell and out into space. Scientists previously believed the droplets froze instantaneously.

The new findings reveal that they freeze slowly, allowing most components (including dissolved ones) to separate from each other. Salts and organic materials are thus distributed in different locations inside each freezing droplet.

Various types of previously dissolved salts also separate; for example, sodium chloride (table salt) separates from sodium carbonate.

On their way up, the frozen droplets accelerate to speeds of up to 1,000 km/h (620 miles per hour). If they hit the walls of the icy cracks, they break into fragments only a few micrometers in size before shooting into space.

As a result, ice particles often consist of just one highly concentrated, previously segregated substance.

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>>25076756

"Enceladus actually does a lot of the work for us in preparing samples for analysis that usually take a lot of effort in chemical labs on Earth," says Postberg, who led the study.

"The oceanic constituents are separated from each other and simultaneously concentrated into individual ice particles."

Making it easier to find signs of life

This mechanism helps researchers characterize the ocean as a potential habitat for life. It is also particularly useful in the search for biosignatures, or measurable indications of life.

If an ocean droplet contained components from alien microbes, those components could separate from others as the droplet froze.

After fragmentation, the microbial material might be found in only a small fraction of ice particles. In those particles, however, it would be highly concentrated and relatively pure.

"That is great news in the search for life," says Postberg. "Future spacecraft will have to analyze many individual ice particles in the plume.

But if they come across one with microbial material in it, they could identify biosignatures in the particle relatively easily with already available technology."

The discovery could have important implications for future space missions to Enceladus, such as the ESA's L4 mission, which is being planned.

The mission will specifically look for signs of life on Saturn's moon. Postberg's lab at Freie Universität Berlin has previously conducted laboratory studies demonstrating that specialized instruments can detect microbial cellular material in individual particles from the ice plumes.

Could life really exist on Enceladus?

A recent study offers new insight into this question.

On the same day Postberg's article appeared in Science Advances, scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) published another article in the journal:

"Enceladus-Like Geochemistry Fuels Methanogenesis under Extreme CO₂-Limitation." Postberg and Khawaja contributed to the study.

The scientists reproduced the conditions of Enceladus's ocean in a laboratory. The ocean has a very low concentration of oxygen, a very high concentration of carbonate and is very alkaline (with pH values of 10 or 11).

After recreating these conditions, including the ocean's hydrothermal interaction with its rocky floor, they introduced Methanothermococcus okinawensis into the simulated environment.

This microorganism is a methane-producing archaean that normally lives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents on Earth. It does not need oxygen, which is rare on Enceladus, to survive. Its metabolism requires only hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

The results were surprising: The organism failed to grow in an optimal laboratory medium at such a high pH because it lacked dissolved carbon dioxide. By contrast, it continued to grow in the Enceladus simulant, producing methane using hydrogen generated by water-rock reactions. Under the simulated conditions, the microorganisms were even able to adapt their metabolism to the low amounts of carbon dioxide. "This was really a surprise to us," Khawaja said. "This was an experiment for which we did not expect such a successful outcome."

Taken together, the two studies in Science Advances shed new light on the search for extraterrestrial life. "On Enceladus the specific geochemical conditions might allow one of the oldest known metabolic systems on Earth to work, even in very alkaline environments," Postberg says.

"While that doesn't mean that there is life on Saturn's moon, our first study shows that—in the event that there is—future space missions might have a good chance of finding traces if they analyze individual ice grains from Enceladus's plume."

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https://avi-loeb.medium.com/first-radio-signal-from-an-exoplanet-has-nothing-to-do-with-aliens-7b8b4d8c3120

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First Radio Signal from an Exoplanet Has Nothing to Do with Aliens

September 25, 2026

The traditional approach in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is to seek a radio signal from an exoplanet in the habitable zone of a distant star. We have not detected any such signal over the past 66 years since Frank Drake pioneered this search in 1960.

In light of the null detection result, one might wonder whether the search strategy represents a wishful thinking akin to looking at the mirror and imaging dating partners that look the same.

After all, radio communication was developed at the infancy of our technological advances and within a century is now being replaced by fiber-optics and laser communication.

It might also be naïve to imagine that intelligent Galactic counterparts have biological brains like ours, evolving through natural selection and eager to communicate with like-minded beings.

Our own civilization is currently entering a new technological phase in which artificial intelligence (AI) made of silicon chips, will likely supersede the cognitive abilities of biological brains on Earth.

Our future might be shaped by self-replicating AI robots. If most technological civilizations go through the AI transformation within a century after developing radio communication, then we are more likely to encounter their long-lived products in the form of self-replicating AI robots than any radio signals that represent the earlier transient phase of biological brains.

This led me recently to propose here and here that we better search for extraterrestrial AI (SETAI) rather than engage in traditional SETI.

Instead of restricting their presence to the habitable zone of stars where the chemistry of life-as-we-know-it may thrive in liquid water, AI robots would migrate closer-in to their host star where they get more energy per unit area per unit time to power their data centers and favored activities.

A dozen years ago, I encouraged radio observers to search for radio signals from exoplanets. My motivation was not SETI but rather to image the orbit of the exoplanets around their host star.

Among these observers was my colleague at the Harvard Astronomy department, Professor Edo Berger. Edo emailed me a few weeks ago to let me know that he co-authored a new paper, posted here on September 15, 2026, announcing the first discovery of radio emission from the massive exoplanet β Pictoris b.

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>>25076782

The host star β Pictoris is located at a distance of 63.4 light-years and is 1.79 times more massive and 8.7 times more luminous than the Sun.

This main sequence star is very young, with an age of only 23 million years, and hosts a debris disk plus at least three giant planets. The most massive planet in the system, β Pictoris b, is 12 times more massive than Jupiter.

The semi-major axis of its orbit is 10 times larger than the Earth-Sun separation, allowing it to reach an angular separation from the host star of up to 0.55 arcseconds during its 24-year orbit.

The host star is magnetically quiet, making its planetary system an ideal target for radio observations, uncontaminated by radio emission from the star.

The planet β Pictoris b has an effective surface temperature of 1700 degrees Kelvin, making it a young, planetary-mass analog of the ultra-cold dwarf stars in which auroral radio emission has been detected.

In particular, the planet matches the spectral type of 2MASSW J0746425+200032 and the mass of SIMP J013656.5+093347, but with a dynamically-confirmed planetary formation origin rather than a field origin of a brown dwarf.

The new preprint reports radio observations of the β Pictoris system with the MeerKAT array in four sessions during 2025 and 2026, in the L frequency band (0.8–1.7 gigahertz) and the S frequency band (1.7–3.5 gigahertz).

Magnetic fields of planets stem from dynamo activity in their interiors. They shape atmospheric escape and block stellar winds. They have not been directly measured for planets beyond the Solar System before.

A direct observable signature of them is auroral radio emission, commonly produced by the electron cyclotron maser instability, whose highest emitted frequency is set by the magnetic field strength. Auroral radio bursts are observed in Solar System planets and in some ultracool dwarf stars.

The new preprint reports the first unambiguous radio detection of an extrasolar planet. The detected signal can be explained as auroral radio emission from β Pictoris b.

The signal shows rapid, recurring, and highly circularly polarized bursts, as well as persistent emission, at frequencies of 0.85 to 3.5 GHz.

The emission is identified as electron cyclotron maser radiation, which implies a magnetic field of ≳1.25 kilogauss, providing the first direct field strength measurement for an exoplanet.

The same mechanism for radio emission operates in the Solar System and does not indicate a technological origin.

The emitting planet is a gas giant, a dozen times more massive than Jupiter and only six times below the minimum mass required for igniting hydrogen fusion in dwarf stars.

Obviously, a gas giant of this mass and orbit is not expected to give birth to life. The inferred magnetic field strength is reasonable for a young object of this mass.

In response to his email announcing the discovery, I congratulated Edo Berger and his colleagues for the pioneering discovery, which will hopefully lead to future radio detections of other exoplanets.

My view remains that we should shift our attention from the traditional search for radio signals in SETI to a future search for physical probes and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena near Earth through SETAI.

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NEWS: Future of UFO investigation to be decided after November elections, bullish Dem leader says

September 25, 2026

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) — Ranking Member, House Oversight Committee; previously Ranking Member, Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets

Ask a Pol asks:

Do you know what happens to the Secrets Task Force if Democrats capture the majority in this year’s midterm elections?

Key Garcia:

“The what’s Task Force?” Rep. Robert Garcia asks Ask a Pol UAP. The Secrets Task Force.

“The Secrets Task Force?” Garcia — the recently former Ranking Member of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets — inquired. “Is that a name for something else?”

[Garcia’s aide tells him something off mic]

“Oh,” Garcia says. “Oh…”*

• we’re so confused over Garcia’s confusion, as he’s the former Ranking Member of the Task Force on the Declassification of Secrets (commonly referred to as the Secrets Task Force by everyone in this space in and out of Congress, including in many of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interviews with Garcia himself — at least before he took over as the top Democrat on the entire House Oversight Committee last year).*

**google confirms we’re not (totally) insane, though we don’t trust Google at Ask a Pol. Que sera sera.

Caught our ear:

“We want to win first, since I think that once that happens and I think we’ll make decisions about what the subcommittees will be and what the task forces will be and what we keep,” Garcia exclusively tells Ask a Pol UAP.

“And a lot of that will be also with a negotiation. And really, honestly, I want to make sure that Leader [Hakeem] Jeffries is going to have some ideas of what he wants, some of the, kind of, task forces to be.”

https://www.askapoluaps.com/p/ufo-investigations-hang-in-balance

https://x.com/AskaPol_UAP/status/2103565112816627884

Laura Eisenhower

@eisenhowe8

Dan Cooper has said that Eisenhower ordered the first U.S. attack on the alleged Grey/Draconian underground facility at Dulce, New Mexico.

In one published transcript, Cooper describes Eisenhower sending what he calls a U.S. Army contingent to fight at the Dulce facility and characterizes it as an early “Battle of Dulce.”

He claims the human force suffered extremely heavy losses ~ he gives a roughly 30-to-1 loss ratio in that telling.

There is also an older repost of Cooper’s account that is even more explicit. It says Eisenhower allegedly “ordered the first attack” on the Grey base at Dulce, knowing the force would probably lose, partly to learn about the adversary and test U.S. capabilities against them.

That account places the operation within a larger Cooper narrative in which Eisenhower secretly opposed a covert power structure and established counter-groups such as what Cooper calls “Ike’s Force.”

Where 1954 fits

In the version you’ve been discussing, 1954 is the important date.

Cooper’s story effectively reverses the more familiar UFO narrative about Eisenhower that year: instead of Eisenhower signing a cooperative treaty with Greys, Cooper says Eisenhower was actively opposing them and ordered the Dulce operation.

A recent transcript of your own discussion of Cooper’s testimony records exactly that distinction: the alleged Dulce attack is placed in 1954, the same year Eisenhower is commonly alleged in other UFO literature to have entered the so-called Greada/Grey treaty.

There are no witnesses, documents, death bed confessions, or freedom of Information Act release validating this Greada treaty ever took place, yet it goes viral and is still being spread.

William Cooper said he was mislead. Many have said it was MJ-12 and originated much earlier.

Time to quit spreading this nonsense when Eisenhower worked with Val Thor and created the White hats and other countermeasures.

(Dan Cooper and William Cooper aren’t related)

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