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'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 3 teaser trailer promises more gimmicky hijinks in the final frontier (video)

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 5:59pm
Paramount+ will serve up a balanced blast of silly and serious sci-fi stories with Season 3 of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds."
Categories: Astronomy

Atlas V rocket will launch Amazon's 1st big batch of Project Kuiper internet satellites on April 9

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 5:00pm
Amazon's first big batch of Project Kuiper broadband satellites will lift off a week from now, if all goes according to plan.
Categories: Astronomy

'Red Planet,' 'Top Gun' and 'Batman Forever' star Val Kilmer dies at 65

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 4:36pm
Kilmer leaves a legacy of engaging film roles including Batman and even a Mars astronaut.
Categories: Astronomy

25 years on, Vin Diesel's 'Pitch Black' still outshines every other Riddick film — and we think we know why

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 4:00pm
As the cult classic sci-fi monster movie turns 25, we look at why it eclipses everything Vin Diesel's antihero has done since.
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Remember that asteroid everyone was worried about 2 months ago? The JWST just got a clear view of it

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 3:00pm
"All together, we have a better sense of what this building-sized asteroid is like."
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Europe's life-hunting ExoMars rover gets new landing platform to replace canceled Russian craft

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 2:00pm
The European Space Agency has picked Airbus to build the landing platform for the life-hunting ExoMars rover Rosalind Franklin, which is scheduled to launch in 2028.
Categories: Astronomy

Familiar faces return in 'Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld', which hits Disney+ on May the 4th (video)

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 1:48pm
Disney has revealed its third animated Star Wars anthology series, which takes us deeper into the galaxy's darkest corners through the eyes of two infamous bounty hunters.
Categories: Astronomy

SpaceX Fram2 astronauts see 'pure white' Antarctica from polar orbit: Space photo of the day

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 1:15pm
Fram2 crew was surprised to not see any evidence of human activity at the South Pole from 285 miles above.
Categories: Astronomy

ESA's new documentary paints worrying picture of Earth's orbital junk problem

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 1:00pm
The European Space Agency's new documentary short tackles the question of whether space debris has reached crisis level.
Categories: Astronomy

US Space Force picks Rocket Lab and Stoke Space to compete for national security launches

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 12:00pm
Private launch companies Rocket Lab and Stoke Space have been selected to compete for future U.S. national security space launches.
Categories: Astronomy

Space miso is nuttier than Earth miso — but it's still miso

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 11:00am
Scientists have successfully fermented miso aboard the International Space Station, marking the first deliberate food fermentation in space that may open up new culinary possibilities for astronauts on long-term missions.
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You can still get 73% Starz for three months and watch some Marvel content following the Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 10:37am
This streaming deal is a great alternative to Disney Plus as you can get three months of Starz for just $2.99 and watch Marvel content for less.
Categories: Astronomy

Incredible photo shows supermassive black hole blowing a jet of matter into interstellar space

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 10:00am
A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its core in a new photo taken by the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
Categories: Astronomy

Drone pilot who flew over Vandenberg Space Force Base sentenced to 4 months in jail

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 9:00am
A California man has been sentenced to jail for flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base and photographing the installation.
Categories: Astronomy

Plush polar bear with penguin art floats as Fram2 zero-g indicator in polar orbit

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 6:00am
The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator: a plush polar bear. The doll also has an emperor penguin embroidered on its chest.
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Northern Lights in Mexico? Low-latitudes may be more vulnerable than expected to geomagnetic storms

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 5:00am
Mother's Day 2024 heralded Mexico's most powerful geomagnetic storm in two decades. Here's why scientists say this is something to track.
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: 'The instrument team nailed it'

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 6:06pm
NASA's new infrared telescope named "SPHEREx" has officially opened its eyes to the cosmos.
Categories: Astronomy

New alien abduction film 'Watch the Skies' is giving us Swedish Spielberg vibes (video)

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 4:00pm
Check out this peek at new alien abduction thriller "Watch the Skies" coming to theaters May 9.
Categories: Astronomy

'I’d get on in a heartbeat': Starliner astronauts would fly on Boeing spacecraft again despite malfunctions (video)

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 3:22pm
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore both say they'd ride on Boeing's Starliner again, despite the issues the capsule had on its first crewed flight.
Categories: Astronomy

Rare 'double sunrise' captured in Canada by intrepid solar eclipse chasers (photos)

Tue, 04/01/2025 - 2:00pm
Cloud-dodging eclipse chasers in New Brunswick and Québec, Canada, captured the solar horns, reflections and all kinds of weird views as the sun rose partially eclipsed.
Categories: Astronomy