Cosmonaut told to immediately leave area after discovering blob growing outside International Space Station

This is the story of a cosmonaut who discovered a 'blob' just outside of the International Space Station.

A blob? In space? You'd better believe it.

While many might conjure up the image of Robin Williams' Flubber when hearing about a blob, others might think it's an alien entity on the hunt for a human meal.

Well, you're wrong on either front.

While the whole alien thing popped off earlier this year after the debunked mystery of ‘non-human corpses’ fiasco, things began to calm down on the conspiracy side of things.

Well, until people found out that the US government is now taking UFO threats seriously, and could even have evidence of otherworldly beings.

But since we've heard no update on that, it's safe to assume that no aliens will be coming for us for awhile.

Unlike aliens, this blob has real evidence of existing, and it proved to be quite the situation for the cosmonaut.

It all began when a group of Russians made the discovery last year.

When a team was on board the International Space Station (ISS) in October 2023, they were forced to leave its safety in order to fix a leaking radiator.

Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, later scheduled a rescue spacewalk.

A strange discovery was made onboard the ISS last year (Getty Stock Image)

It happened on October 26, which saw Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko leave the confines of the ISS and make his journey out into space to fix the backup radiator’s leak.

Once he went out on the spacewalk, he claimed that he realized something odd.

There were various holes ‘drilled’ into the radiator panel, which led him to radio call Moscow Mission Control to report his observation.

“The holes have very even edges like they've been drilled through,” he explained. “There are lots of them. They are spread in a chaotic manner.”

But that was the start of Kononenko’s odd encounter, as a strange thing happened while he was sucking up liquid from the leak.

He shared that he went on to come face-to-face with a bizarre glob of coolant.

It was reported that this glob had shifted onto the cosmonaut’s safety tether, causing Moscow Mission Control to demand that he get back to the safety of ISS.

The blob was outside of the ISS (NASA)

But that's not the only weird thing to happen in space.

NASA scientists discovered a strange new force. That's right, they found a form of electrical field around the Earth's poles.

NASA had a hunch about it for decades, and a spacecraft even detected a stream of particles flowing into space as they flew over the North and South poles. They were detected as far back as the 1960s, and dubbed the 'polar wind'.

A team of scientists began investigating this polar wind, and launched a rocket from Svalbard, an island close to the North Pole.

Glyn Collinson, a lead author on the study and a principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, said that a planet with an atmosphere has an 'ambipolar field'.

She said: "Now that we've finally measured it, we can begin learning how it's shaped our planet as well as others over time."