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Cosmonaut told to leave area immediately after discovering blob growing outside International Space Station
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Published 11:28 4 Jun 2024 GMT+1

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

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenk made the bizarre discovery

Callum Jones

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Topics: Space, Aliens, International Space Station

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A cosmonaut was told to leave the area immediately after discovering a 'blob' outside the International Space Station.

Whether or not aliens exist is a long-running debate that never seems to come to an end.

Earlier this year, experts debunked the mystery of ‘non-human corpses’ and the talk of UFOs never seems to stop, does it?

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I mean, some of the stories are pretty ridiculous - but they've come out so much in recent times that the US government is now taking UFO threats pretty seriously.

And as scientists continue to learn more about space, a group of Russians made an incredible discovery last year.

The collective was on board the International Space Station (ISS) in October 2023 when they were forced to step outside to fix a leaking radiator.

Originally reported by Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, they later scheduled a rescue spacewalk.

The incredible discovery was made near the International Space Station. (Getty Stock Photo)
The incredible discovery was made near the International Space Station. (Getty Stock Photo)

On October 26, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko was ordered to fix the backup radiator’s leak - a task that would lead him to venture outside of ISS.

The cosmonaut claimed that while on the spacewalk he noticed that there were various holes ‘drilled’ into the radiator panel.

Upon his discovery, the engineer radioed Moscow Mission Control to report his findings.

“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 Kononenko’s strange discoveries didn’t stop there.

The cosmonaut was told to leave the area. (Getty Stock Photo)
The cosmonaut was told to leave the area. (Getty Stock Photo)

Whilst sucking up liquid from the leak, he apparently encountered a bizarre globule of coolant.

It’s said that the glob had shifted onto the cosmonaut’s safety tether, which prompted Moscow Mission Control to demand his return to ISS.

Elsewhere in the world of science, NASA has provided an update on the mission to capture asteroid the worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Last year, the space agency announced that it was going to set off for the faraway asteroid named 16 Psyche, which is thought to contain precious metals, including gold, iron and nickel, worth an eye-watering amount.

"Teams of engineers and technicians are working almost around the clock to ensure the orbiter is ready to journey 2.5 billion miles to a metal-rich asteroid that may tell us more about planetary cores and how planets form," NASA said in a statement released in July 2023.

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