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Will Marvel’s ‘Fantastic Four’ Copy The Best Sci-Fi Show On TV?

— Marvel Studios The Fantastic Four are back, and now they’re in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But will their movie be a period piece? On Valentine’s Day, Marvel Studios released a tantalizing promo image with several Easter eggs. Two particular details suggest that not only will Marvel’s Fantastic Four be set in the 1960s, it […]

Hubble Takes a Stunning Photo of a Hidden Protostar 30 Times Bigger Than the Sun

— ESA/Hubble/NASA A star, hiding in plain sight within a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope, is one big baby. Stars fascinate astronomers. Not all of them are like our Sun, the 4.6-billion-year-old heart of the Solar System that has already reached middle age. Some, like the star at the center of a recently […]

Look! Epic Images Show ‘Odysseus’ Lander On Its Way To the Moon

— GREGG NEWTON/AFP/Getty Images Round two of NASA’s newest Odysseus has encountered no issues so far. The Intuitive Machines Nova-C-class lunar lander “is stable and receiving solar power,” NASA announced on Thursday. As Odysseus flies to the Moon, and up until about a week after landing, NASA instruments will take science data. They’ll survey how […]

Watch: SpaceX Could Finally Launch Intuitive Machines’ Moon Lander Tonight

— Anadolu/Anadolu/Getty Images Another commercial spaceflight company is about to try to land on the Moon, and this time, it’s carrying miniature art, digital archives, and NASA’s first prototype radio telescope for the Moon. Intuitive Machines hopes its Nova-C lander, dubbed Odysseus, will launch to the Moon tonight aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Tonight’s […]

Look! This Warped Galaxy Is Erupting With New Stars From Inside Its Tail

— NASA This image of Galaxy AM 1054-325 looks as if an elementary school kid in art class drew a curvy line with Elmer’s glue and then sprinkled glitter on top. Once upon a time, the galaxy looked normal, like the pancake-shaped spirals that our minds first conjure when asked to picture a galaxy. But […]

Astronomers Captured A Star Cluster Ripping An Interstellar Dust Cloud To Shreds

The Pleiades star cluster is slowly tearing a cloud of dust into cosmic tatters, and this new image from the Utah Desert Remote Observatory captured the beautiful destruction in action. For roughly the last 100,000 years — a blink of an eye in cosmic time — a cloud of gas and dust has been passing […]

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Confirms Existence of Ancient Mars Lake

Scientists have confirmed in a new study that the scientific playground of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover — Jezero Crater — was once home to an ancient lake. New radar data from one of Perseverance’s instruments revealed layers of sediments that, billions of years ago, sat at the bottom of a Martian lake like the material […]

This Stout Spacecraft From Japan Just Made Moon History

— JAXA Japan has successfully landed on the Moon, becoming only the fifth country to nail the often-perilous maneuver. The accomplishment comes one day after Astrobotic’s highly-anticipated Peregrine lander careened into Earth’s atmosphere for controlled self-destruction. Peregrine had to chart this course because, shortly after launch, it suffered a propulsion anomaly that erased Astrobotic’s dreams […]

Astrobotic’s Peregrine Lander Is Making a Fiery Re-Entry to Earth Right Now

— Astrobotix The Peregrine lander from Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic almost became the first privately-owned robot to reach the Moon’s surface. But it’s not to be. Shortly after launching two weeks ago, Peregrine began running out of fuel due to a failure in the propulsion system, and the team realized it wouldn’t reach the Moon safely. […]

Astrobotic’s Moon Lander Will Return To Earth In a Blaze of Glory

Gene Roddenberry’s ashes are set to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere later this week, along with those of half the main cast of his original Star Trek series, as well as a lunar rover, a small flock of robots, and millions of dollars in scientific instruments, all of which were originally supposed to land on […]