NASA astronaut Don Pettit is showing off his pride and joy: a potato named “Spudnik.” In their very minimal “free time,” astronauts aboard the International Space Station generally play instruments,…
Category: Astronomy
Starbirth shuts down 40,000 light-years from the Milky Way’s core — and astronomers don’t know why
Astronomers have found the boundary of star formation in the Milky Way’s spiral disk — and it’s not as far out from the center of our galaxy as you might…
Did decaying dark matter help create the universe’s first supermassive black holes?
New research suggests that supermassive black holes that existed before the cosmos was 1 billion years old may have formed with a helping hand from dark matter, the universe’s most…
SpaceX launching powerful Falcon Heavy rocket today for 1st time in 18 months: Watch it live
Watch Live! SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches for the first time since 2024 – YouTube Watch On SpaceX’s brawny Falcon Heavy rocket is about to fly for the first time in…
Best space prison movies | Space
It’s hard to know what’s most frightening about a space prison: the dangerous inmates within or the deadly vacuum of space that lies outside its walls. Thankfully, you can comfortably…
Apple TV’s new ‘Silo’ S3 teaser digs deep into the past for a post-apocalyptic origin story (video)
Silo — Season 3 Official Teaser | Apple TV – YouTube Watch On Warning: Potential “Silo” Spoilers Ahead! When we last visited Apple TV’s “Silo”-verse back in 2025’s Season 2…
Could ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ restore the ‘Star Wars’ spark? Watch the electrifying final trailer and decide if this is the way
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu | Final Trailer | In Theaters May 22 – YouTube Watch On The latest trailer for the next Star Wars film is an explosive…
From ‘Starfield’ to Artemis: designing moonbases in games and reality
NASA’s Artemis program is the space agency’s plan for returning humanity to our closest cosmic neighbor, the moon. This time, though, the idea isn’t just brief contact and exploratory surveys,…
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s next great observatory, is finally complete
GREENBELT, Md. — On Tuesday (April 21) here at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, I watched as scientists stood proudly around a metal contraption with towering orange solar panels and…
NASA shuts down Voyager 1 instrument to keep probe exploring interstellar space
NASA engineers have shut down another instrument on Voyager 1 to preserve the power of the most distant spacecraft ever sent into space. The Low-energy Charged Particles experiment (LECP) was…
