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

A bizarre floating growth on the International Space Station has caused hilarious online comments.

The purple egg-shaped object – that looks like it is from the poster for the 1979 horror “Alien” – is in fact a potato that ...

(Don Pettit/X) A grotesque purple lifeform was photographed sprouting 'tentacles' on the International Space Station (ISS), ...

In a surprising twist that stunned social media,NASA astronaut Don Pettit recently published a photo of a bizarre tentacled ...

When the scientists paired two male octopuses in the same setup, the males interacted by touching arms, but they never ...

A photograph taken by a NASA astronaut has sparked fears it shows an extraterrestrial creature, but it’s just a photo of a potato.

The eerie purple orb freaking out social media is actually Spudnik-1, a homegrown ISS potato pointing to NASA's plans for ...

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The Cosmic Report brings you this week’s weirdest space moments, from a meteorite smashing through a Houston roof to a potato causing UFO panic on the ISS, plus NASA’s $4 billion telescope surviving a ...

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For Artemis II, astronauts are very much at the front and centre of the mission. The crew will be the first people to fly in ...