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What would happen if you played tug-of-war in outer space? Would you be able to stand and pull with all your might, as you would on Earth, or would something entirely different happen? As with many experiments in space, something entirely different happens. Instead of the losing side getting pulled toward the winning side, both […]

The moon will cover the orange star Aldebaran, the eye of Taurus, the evening of Sunday, Nov. 5. Here, the duo can be seen after the occultation in Atlanta. Tonight (Nov. 5),just one day after reaching its full phase for the month, the moon will temporarily hide the orange star Aldebaran, the brightest star in […]

While the moon is sometimes a frustrating object for deep-sky-object observers — the light from the surface can wash out faint objects — in November, our celestial neighbor will point the way to three gorgeous star clusters, but you’ll need binoculars to see them. Here are the clusters the moon will be close to in […]

This illustration shows NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting over Jupiter’s south pole. The probe has just completed its eighth science flyby of the gas giant. Juno’s finally back in contact with Earth, confirming a successful eighth science flyby of Jupiter and sending along new data about the planet’s vibrant cloud tops and composition. The probe swung […]

[embedded content] Blake Ritson Credit: Starz Paula Malcomson Credit: Showtime Da Vinci’s Demons actor Blake Ritson has been cast as Brainiac in SyFy’s “Krypton,” according to Deadline . Brainiac is one of Superman’s oldest enemies, and Deadline reports that he’ll also be a villain in the series, set in Krypton’s past. Ritson is described as a […]

The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lands at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Sept. 7, 2017, shortly after launching the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane on its fifth mystery mission. Some of the spaceflight community’s biggest movers, shakers and disruptors will gather in Seattle next week to discuss […]

L-R: Halston Sage, Seth MacFarlane, Scott Grimes and Larry Joe Campbell appear in the Nov. 9 episode of “The Orville,” called “Cupid’s Dagger.” Fox’s “Star Trek”-influenced space adventure, “The Orville ,” will voyage on to a second season. Fox announced Nov. 1 that the series, eight episodes into its 13-episode debut, will return to the […]

Full confession time: Newsarama didn’t get to see Ragnarok until a press screening mid last week, days after the initial wave of reviews started to surface and it became readily apparent the film was another MCU critical hit. So as opposed to joining a chorus of positive reviews (and ours would have been glowing) we […]

Staff members at the University of Arizona’s Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab recently began making the fifth mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope, a huge telescope under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert to peer deep into the universe. Read our full story here . When complete, the telescope will use seven giant mirrors and one […]

The GMT mirror 5 mold filled with 38,580 lbs. (17,500 kilograms) of glass, ready for the lid to be placed. The construction of a highly anticipated mega-telescope is proceeding apace. Technicians have begun casting the fifth primary mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope  (GMT) at the University of Arizona’s Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory, project representatives […]

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory saw sunspot AR 1520 before the solar flare erupted from it on July 12, 2012. The sun is a big ball of gas and plasma. Most of the gas — 91 percent — is hydrogen. It is converted into energy in the sun’s core. The energy moves outward through the interior […]

In mid-November, the fickle Leonid meteor shower hits Earth once again. This annual meteor shower, which peaks overnight on Nov 17, is responsible for some of the most intense meteor storms in history. Sometimes, meteors fall at rates as high as 50,000 per hour. These storms only happen rarely; viewers this year will see few […]

A pair of physicists announced the discovery of a subatomic event so powerful that the researchers wondered if it was too dangerous to make public. The explosive event? The duo showed that two tiny particles known as bottom quarks could theoretically fuse together in a powerful flash. The result: a larger subatomic particle, a second, […]