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New 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' comic series coming this fall
A preview of IDW's upcoming "Star Trek: Lower Decks" comic book series.
Venus may be able to support life, new atmospheric evidence suggests
Preliminary evidence for gases that could be biosignatures have been found in the atmosphere of Venus, but even if these biosignatures are real, does it necessarily imply life?
This Week's Sky at a Glance, August 2 – 11
The Perseid meteors ramp up this week to their peak. Saturn is nicely up by late evening. Jupiter and Mars near their conjunction in the morning sky. And there's a story behind Poniatowski's Bull.
SpaceX to resume astronaut launches on Aug. 18 with Crew-9 mission to ISS
The ninth crew rotation for SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to lift off on Aug. 18 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (photos)
SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 2), continuing the company's bounceback from a July 11 failure.
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center
File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Launch Complex 39A ahead of the Starlink 6-51 mission on April 17, 2024. Image: Spaceflight Now
SpaceX is preparing to launch its latest batch of Starlink satellites, increasing its mega-constellation in low Earth orbit. The mission comes as the company is simultaneously working towards the launch of a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station over the weekend.
How Oumuamua Changes Our Perspective on Galactic Panspermia
Panspermia is an innately attractive idea that’s gained prominence in recent decades. Yet, among working scientists, it gets little attention. There are good reasons for their relative indifference, but certain events spark renewed interest in panspermia, even among scientists.
Never played the Borderlands games? Here's what you need to know ahead of the Borderlands movie
Don't know your Claptrap from your Handsome Jack? Here's everything you need to know about the Borderlands video games before seeing the movie.
Could galaxy cluster collisions be used as dark matter detectors?
Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider have failed to turn up potential dark matter candidates, but could galaxy cluster smashes be used as cosmic dark matter colliders?
'Cosmic dawn:' NASA's Roman Space Telescope will get baby pictures of our universe
NASA's Roman Space Telescope will look all the way back to cosmic dawn 400 million years after the Big Bang to discover how the universe fundamentally changed at this crucial point in its history.
This mesmerizing NASA animation shows how carbon dioxide moves through Earth's atmosphere (video)
A high-resolution visualization from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio shows global carbon dioxide emissions from January to March 2020.
If we want to settle on other planets, we’ll have to use genome editing to alter human DNA
It sounds like science fiction, but many scientists believe editing the human genome is key to our advancement across the solar system.
Saturn threw a comet out of the solar system at 6,700 mph. Here's how
Astronomers have discovered that Saturn has thrown a newly found comet on its way out of the solar system. Comet A117uUD is expected to go interstellar at 6,700 mph.
A New Model Explains How Gas and Ice Giant Planets Can Form Rapidly
The most widely recognized explanation for planet formation is the accretion theory. It states that small particles in a protoplanetary disk accumulate gravitationally and, over time, form larger and larger bodies called planetesimals. Eventually, many planetesimals collide and combine to form even larger bodies. For gas giants, these become the cores that then attract massive amounts of gas over millions of years.
What do Yoda and Darth Plagueis' cameos mean for the future of 'Star Wars: The Acolyte'?
We closely examine Darth Plagueis and Yoda's cameos in the finale of 'The Acolyte' and try to figure out how they might be used in the future.
Woo-hoo — The Perseid Meteor Shower Is Coming!
It's time again for the annual August meteor-shower fest, the Perseids. This year's display should be a beauty with only minor moonlight and a special surprise at dawn.
New Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle features 'most accurate details' in a Lego set
There is a moment when building Lego's new NASA-inspired set that the assembly goes from looking like plastic bricks to being a moon buggy. Then you realize you're not even a quarter of the way done.
