‘Gears of War: Reloaded’ chainsaws its way into Xbox, PS5, and PC this summer, and everyone will be playing together

We’ve been recommending that you replay the best Gears of War games ahead of E-Day (the upcoming Rogue One-ish prequel) for a while, but now you have no excuse, as…

Going fast, this child-friendly Celestron Firstscope 76mm is now under $58

Want a scope that’s portable, beginner-friendly, and suitable for children? We think the Celestron Classic Firstscope 76mm is one of the best telescopes for kids and beginners, easy to set…

What time is it on the moon? US House space committee wants a standard lunar clock

We are one step closer to getting a lunar time zone this week, as a bill passed out of the US House Science, Space and Technology committee directs the administrator…

What would it be like living on Tatooine from ‘Star Wars’? This exoplanet orbiting twin suns could tell us

A Tatooine-like world with a key difference from the desert planet in “Star Wars” has been serendipitously discovered orbiting not two stars, but a pair of brown dwarfs. What’s more,…

A whole ‘population’ of minimoons may be lurking near Earth, researchers say

Earth’s minimoon may be a chip off the old block: New research suggests that 2024 PT5 ​​— a small, rocky body dubbed a “minimoon” during its discovery last year —…

NASA just got the Orion spacecraft that will fly astronauts around the moon on Artemis 2 in 2026

The next spacecraft to fly humans around the moon has been delivered to the only space agency on Earth to ever successfully fly astronauts to our nearest celestial neighbor. Orion,…

James Webb Space Telescope captures thousands of galaxies in a cosmic ‘feast’ (image)

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team shared a new image of a…

John Lithgow to launch into life of Apollo 11 astronaut in new podcast ‘BUZZ’

Having explored the ‘third rock from the sun,’ John Lithgow is now heading for its moon. The award-winning actor is set to star in the new podcast “BUZZ” about the…

See a wafer-thin crescent moon leapfrog Jupiter this week

The delicate form of the crescent moon is set to draw close to the planet Jupiter in the post-sunset sky on April 29, before later making its closest approach to…

Newly launched NASA satellites open eyes to start studying ‘auroral electrojets’ in Earth’s atmosphere

The first bits of data have come back from the trio of small satellites that make up NASA’s EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission, which aims to solve some mysteries…