The 1st ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ trailer is here, and it’s stuffed to bursting with superheroes

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Avengers: Doomsday | Official Trailer | In Theaters December 18 – YouTube Watch On One thing is for certain: there will absolutely be no shortage of superheroes in Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Doomsday“, as evidenced by this first full trailer that showcases everyone from the Wakandans and the X-Men to the Fantastic Four and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers. Plus, we get slivers of a metal-masked Victor Von Doom looming over the mayhem to further whet the appetites of MCU acolytes before the Russo Brothers’ epic lands Dec. 18. “Something’s coming,”…

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SpaceX targets July 23 for crucial Starship Flight 13 test launch after abort

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SpaceX has pushed the next launch of its Starship megarocket back a few more days. Elon Musk‘s company is now targeting Thursday (July 23) for Flight 13 of Starship, the giant, fully reusable vehicle it’s developing to help get people to the moon and Mars, among other spaceflight tasks. If all goes to plan, the 408-foot-tall (124.4 meters) Starship will lift off from SpaceX‘s Starbase site in South Texas on Thursday during a 90-minute window that opens at 6:45 p.m. EDT (2245 GMT; 5:45 p.m. local Texas time). You can…

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NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-13 Mission to Space Station

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 members are pictured in their pressure suits seated inside a mockup Dragon spacecraft during a preflight training session at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are Roscosmos Sergey Teteryatnikov, NASA astronauts Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk. Credit: SpaceX NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation mission to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Monday, Aug. 3, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Mission leadership will provide an…

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Scientists discover mystery molecule on Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan: ‘We cannot say what it is’

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Separated by billions of miles and shaped by very different environments, Saturn’s smoggy moon Titan and the dwarf planet Pluto have, on paper, little in common. Titan is a geologically active world cloaked in an atmosphere denser than Earth’s, its landscape shaped by seas of liquid methane and vast dunes built from organic particles that rain out of its skies. Pluto, by contrast, is a frigid outpost with a tenuous atmosphere hovering above an icy, frozen surface. Yet, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed these two…

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NASA, GE Aerospace Work Enables Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstration

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4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A modified Saab 340B aircraft in flight powered in part by a hybrid electric system built by GE Aerospace, along with NASA, BETA Technologies, and Boeing. GE Aerospace An aircraft powered by a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine developed in collaboration with NASA and built by GE Aerospace, demonstrated flight of an innovation that can inform new generations of fuel-saving aircraft power systems. Mounted to a Saab 340B aircraft, the engine flew at Farnborough International Air Show in the United Kingdom.…

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New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights  

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Earth (ESD) Earth Explore Explore Earth Science Agriculture Air Quality Climate Change Freshwater Life on Earth Severe Storms Snow and Ice The Global Ocean Science at Work Earth Science at Work Technology and Innovation Powering Business Multimedia Image Collections Videos Data For Researchers About Us 6 Min Read New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights   Satellite imagery captured wildfires burning hot enough to generate pyrocumulonimbus clouds north of Lake Superior in July 2026. NASA aircraft will help scientists study the powerful storms as they develop. Credits: CSU/CIRA & NOAA Landslides…

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‘Aliens’ at 40: James Cameron’s sequel is a sci-fi icon, but did you know he quit the movie twice?

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Where does James Cameron’s “Aliens” rank among the other Alien movies? That depends on who you ask. Some might say it’s the best, while others put it just behind the original (spoiler alert: it’s the best). Regardless, there’s no denying that this 1986 film shifted gears, moving the franchise from horror to horror-tinged sci-fi action and paving an alternate path for the future. As Cameron stated in an interview with Lofficier, the plan always was “to do a film that was not as scary… it’s scary, but it’s not as…

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Should we trust AI in the search for alien life? Scientists aren’t so sure

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Artificial intelligence could easily fall into the trap of identifying non-life as life on other worlds, claim two researchers from Michigan State University who have tested AI on simulated life in a computer program. “We had previously seen that AI has a big Achilles heel when it is trying to classify things that are unlike the things in its training examples,” Michigan’s Christoph Adami told Space.com. “We call these ‘out-of-distribution’ samples and it is just incredibly easy to get AI to misclassify.” Adami is a computational biologist who uses computers…

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