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…
Category: Astronomy
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…
Watch SpaceX launch advanced GPS satellite for US Space Force early on April 20
SpaceX will launch a new GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force early Monday morning (April 20), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with…
Pragmata’s tale of AI slop, humanity, & lunar conquest makes it the timeliest sci-fi game of the year
2026 is a remarkably stacked year for space and sci-fi games, but Capcom might have just dropped the most relevant one already. Pragmata is a love letter to the sci-fi…
How the ‘Project Hail Mary’ book walks the line between hard and speculative science fiction… and why the film did not
Science fiction is not monolithic. There are, in fact, two major sub-genres that divide sci-fi — hard sci-fi and speculative (or soft) sci-fi — and most of the time, the…
Landing astronauts on the moon ‘is absolutely doable, and it’s doable soon,’ NASA’s Artemis 2 commander says
The astronauts who flew NASA’s Artemis 2 mission around the moon splashed down less than a week ago — and they’re back at work helping the agency prepare for the…
SpaceX fires up next-gen ‘Version 3’ Starship ahead of May test flight (photos)
The new, juiced-up version of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket just cleared a big hurdle on the path to its first-ever launch. That liftoff, targeted for early or mid-May, will be the…
NASA’s Artemis 2 moonshot was just the ‘opening act’ for America’s return to the moon, space agency chief says
The head of NASA said the agency’s historic Artemis 2 moon mission, which sent the first astronauts around the moon in over 50 years, is only the beginning of a…
Sci-fi stories never really end anymore, and that’s a problem
There was a time when things ended. When the stories on our screens had a beginning, middle, and end. A time when a trilogy was the longest series of films…
10 epic events for the Aug. 12, 2026, total solar eclipse in Spain and Iceland
Where will you be for the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026? If you’re within the roughly 190-mile (305 kilometers) wide path of totality through eastern Greenland, western Iceland…
