A strange purple object aboard the ISS sparked alien fears online, but NASA revealed it was a potato experiment. It shows how ...

Call it Spud-nick. An image of a tentacled growth in space has caused an uproar online with freaked-out viewers imploring ...

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

The spud's alien-like root growth has prompted some conspiracy theories.

A bizarre, tentacled object photographed on the International Space Station by astronaut Don Pettit sparked online alarm, ...