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Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua — that strange, cigar-shaped chunk of rock from somewhere a vast distance beyond the Solar System — is, new research has concluded, absolutely, positively not an alien spaceship.

OK, well, probably not. We can’t tell for sure without closely examining the thing, and it’s passed beyond our reach now. But, after carefully reviewing all our observations of the object, the international team of ‘Oumuamua scientists has concluded that everything we know about it is consistent with a natural origin.

We already mostly knew this. But a paper last year from Harvard astrophysics enfant terrible Avi Loeb briefly suggested the possibility that the rock was an alien probe. It was like a spark to dry tinder, honestly, and other scientists have been running around with buckets ever since.

The geth (“Servant of the People” in Khelish) are a race of networked artificial intelligences that reside beyond the Perseus Veil. The geth were created by the quarians as laborers and tools of war. When the geth became sentient and began to question their masters, the quarians attempted to exterminate them. The geth won the resulting war, and reduced the quarians to a race of nomads.

The history of the geth’s creation and evolution serves as a warning to the rest of the galaxy of the potential dangers of artificial intelligence and to the legally enforced, systematic repression of artificial intelligences throughout galactic society.

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The Hubble Space Telescope recently spotted a gorgeous “in bloom” spiral galaxy and it shows vibrant star formation pockets that look like red flowers.

The spiral galaxy, which is named NGC 972, was shared by the Hubble Space Telescope on Monday, July 1. NGC 972’s orange-pink glow comes from hydrogen gas reacting to intense light beaming outwards from neighboring newborn stars, said a Hubble Space Telescope press release. These bright patches, which are scattered near various cosmic dust streams, are “blooming” like roses in NGC 972.

The former NASA astronaut has told of a conversation he had with the renowned scientist.

UK Space Agency has confirmed that it is drafting regulations for Europe’s first spaceport set to be built in Cornwall…

The UK Space Agency has confirmed that it’s currently drawing up rules for Europe’s first ever spaceport that is set to be built in Cornwall. Flights could be operating as early as the 2020s.

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The chosen mission—Dragonfly—beat out eleven competitors.

A city on Mars could lead to something completely unpredictable.

New study suggests that fungi are an overlooked interplanetary contamination threat.