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NEW YORK – “Star Trek: Discovery” is three episodes into its run, and it’s already sparked one of the liveliest sci-fi discussions of the year. Is Discovery a good show? Is it good Star Trek? What’s up with the Klingons? And, most importantly: where does it go from here? The cast and crew of Discovery […]

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter and two of its biggest moons, Io (right) and Europa (left), on Sept. 1, 2017. This color-enhanced version was processed by citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko using data from the probe’s JunoCam imager. Two of Jupiter’s largest and most intriguing moons hover near the giant planet in a […]

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Randy Bresnik take a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Oct. 10, 2017. Two NASA astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station today (Oct. 10) to tackle the second in a series of three spacewalks taking place at the orbiting laboratory this month. Expedition 53 Cmdr. Randy Bresnik […]

NEW YORK – The cast and crew of “Star Trek: Discovery” are well aware that their show doesn’t fit the traditional Trek mold. However, they’re also eager to engage with fans and critics, and talk about how the show is different from — and surprisingly similar to — its predecessors. After the huge Star Trek: […]

Can’t wait until November to get your hands on Star Wars Battlefront 2 ? Fret not — you can get your first taste of EA’s massive intergalactic shooter right now as part of its free multiplayer beta. When does the Star Wars Battlefront 2 beta start? The Battlefront 2 multiplayer beta starts for everyone on […]

Warning: This post contains spoilers for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” But you probably knew that, right? The latest tease of the much anticipated Star Wars sequel is brimming with huge new details. We see more of Rey training with Luke, who seems terrified at just how much his new student’s raw Force ability reminds […]

The second major trailer for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”   has been released by Lucasfilm. Take a look above!  What do you think? Is this the full trailer you were hoping for? Or is it what Admiral Ackbar would call a “trap” for spoilers? Let us know! Reaction: The New ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer’ Is […]

The private spaceflight company SpaceX successfully launched 10 communications satellites into low-Earth orbit today (Oct. 9) and landed the spent Falcon 9 first-stage rocket booster on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 8:37 a.m. EDT (1237 GMT/5:37 a.m. EDT), […]

Fred Haise (left), Jack Swigert, and Jim Lovell pose on the day before launch. Swigert had just replaced Ken Mattingly as command module pilot after Mattingly was exposed to German measles. Credit: NASA Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third moon-landing mission. Instead, in an instant, the spacecraft pivoted from a moon-bound landing unit […]

When University of Virginia senior Steven Stetzler met former NASA astronauts Al Worden and Catherine “Cady” Coleman , the computer science and physics major said it was “a very surreal experience.” Astronauts had always seemed to exist in a different reality from his own, yet here they were, in the flesh, he said. Stetzler met […]

An artist’s impression of the planet Proxima Centauri b as it orbits the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. A world orbiting the sun’s closest stellar neighbor may have a shiny green tint to it — and not necessarily because it’s covered in leafy plants.  Researchers have found a way to characterize potential auroras on the […]

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands on the company’s launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California ahead of the Iridium-2 mission in June 2017. A similar Falcon 9 rocket will launch 10 Iridium Next communications satellites into orbit from the same pad for the Iridium-3 mission on Oct. 9, 2017. The private spaceflight […]

Hurricane Nate weakened to a tropical storm after making landfall twice on the U.S. Gulf Coast Saturday (Oct. 7), but its approach as a category 1 storm was captured earlier in the day by satellites operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).  The storm first made landfall in southeastern Louisana, near […]