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Punch it! 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 4 starts filming before Season 3 even airs

Tue, 03/18/2025 - 12:00pm
Paramount celebrates with a USS Enterprise bridge photo and new Season 3 character posters
Categories: Astronomy

Private Starlab space station moves into 'full-scale development' ahead of 2028 launch

Tue, 03/18/2025 - 11:00am
The Starlab commercial space station project is moving toward the production phase, having passed a key development milestone with NASA.
Categories: Astronomy

Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science!

Tue, 03/18/2025 - 10:00am
Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn't likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to help us understand these space rocks.
Categories: Astronomy

'Apollo 1' director surprised by details of ill-fated mission in new documentary

Tue, 03/18/2025 - 9:00am
It was the opening scene of "Apollo 13" and was recreated for the Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man." It was also included in director Mark Craig's "Last Man on the Moon," inspiring "Apollo 1."
Categories: Astronomy

The far side of the moon was once a vast magma ocean, Chinese lunar lander confirms

Tue, 03/18/2025 - 8:00am
New findings from China's Chang'e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon's volcanic past and mantle evolution.
Categories: Astronomy

How NASA's Starliner mission went from 10 days to 9 months: A timeline

Tue, 03/18/2025 - 6:00am
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are on their way home from a nine-month space mission that was supposed to last just 10 days. Here's a rundown of their eventful time off Earth.
Categories: Astronomy

What time will NASA's Starliner astronauts land with SpaceX's Crew-9 today? How to watch live.

Tue, 03/18/2025 - 5:00am
SpaceX is poised to land its Crew Dragon Freedom with the two ISS crewmates who launched on it and two astronauts who arrived at the space station in June on Boeing's Starliner. Here's how to see it.
Categories: Astronomy

Feel the burn with this amazing video of a Varda space capsule's plunge through Earth's atmosphere

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 6:00pm
The final two minutes of the video show things really heating up.
Categories: Astronomy

World's largest digital camera to help new Vera Rubin Observatory make a 'time-lapse record of the universe' (video)

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 4:00pm
A major milestone with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been reached with the installation of the telescope's enormous eye — the world's largest digital camera.
Categories: Astronomy

Farewell, Blue Ghost! Private moon lander goes dark to end record-breaking commercial lunar mission

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 3:00pm
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander went dark in the lunar night on Sunday (March 16) as expected, bringing an end to its historic mission.
Categories: Astronomy

'Starship Troopers' big-screen reboot coming from 'District 9' director Neill Blomkamp — would you like to know more?

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 2:00pm
After a long wait and a bunch of disappointing straight-to-DVD sequels, Starship Troopers is still trying to live forever with a theatrical reboot now in development.
Categories: Astronomy

Space photo of the day: Brilliant comet shines at sunset over observatory in Chile

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 1:20pm
The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.
Categories: Astronomy

7 excellent Irish sci-fi movies to leave Hollywood green with envy this St. Patrick's Day

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 1:00pm
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a spirited selection of sci-fi films born from the Emerald Isle.
Categories: Astronomy

James Webb Space Telescope sees four giant alien planets circling nearby star (images)

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 12:59pm
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.
Categories: Astronomy

Our best binoculars for viewing the sun safely have a dazzling 58% off – grab a pair now in time for March's partial solar eclipse

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 10:02am
Get the Celestron EclipSmart 10x25 Solar Binoculars for their best price in over a year — a fantastic pair of binoculars for safe observation of the sun.
Categories: Astronomy

Beam back to the USS Callister in mind-bending new trailer for 'Black Mirror' Season 7 on Netflix

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 10:00am
Netflix's fan-favorite Season 4 'Star Trek'-themed episode scores a direct sequel coming April 10.
Categories: Astronomy

How did Earth get such a strange moon? Exploring the giant impact theory

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 9:00am
The moon is unlike anything else in the solar system. So how did our planet end up with such a special moon?
Categories: Astronomy

Rocket Lab launches final 5 satellites for French 'Internet of Things' constellation

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 8:04am
Rocket Lab launched the final five satellites for the French company Kinéis' "Internet of Things" constellation tonight (March 17).
Categories: Astronomy

Starliner astronauts head back to Earth with SpaceX Crew-9 duo to make long-awaited landing (video)

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 7:42am
Nick Hague, Aleksandr Gorbunov, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are heading back to Earth, and you can watch their Tuesday (March 18) homecoming live.
Categories: Astronomy

How climate change could make Earth's space junk problem even worse

Mon, 03/17/2025 - 7:00am
Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases decrease the atmosphere's ability to devour space junk, a new study finds.
Categories: Astronomy