Month: February 2023

Things are certainly heating up in the world of “Star Trek” comic books at IDW Publishing, and 2023 is poised to be a banner year for boldly bolting into the final frontier with multiple crews and connections to the larger universe.  But the year wouldn’t be quite complete without the always-welcomed “Star Trek Annual” issue to round out the spacey spring offerings, and we’ve got an exclusive first look at all the incredible covers fans can anticipate and plan for.  Written by Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly and joined by…

Astronomers have developed a new technique for identifying “starspots” — cool, dark regions of stars akin to the sunspots on our star, the sun. These regions are believed to form on the surfaces of stars when strong magnetic fields tangle and suppress the churning of plasma, thus impeding light from escaping from that region of the star.  The research could shed light on why some stars are highly active, and could eventually help astronomers better define stars’ habitable zones, the regions around stars where planets could sustain liquid water at…

Russia’s space agency released the first public images of the source of a radiator leak aboard a Soyuz spacecraft docked at the International Space Station. The images were shared on Monday (Feb. 13) in a post on the agency’s official Telegram account. According to the post, the pictures show evidence of external damage, and Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has previously stated that the leak, which occurred on Dec. 14, was caused by a meteoroid impact. “An image of the hole in the radiator of the ship’s thermoregulation system, captured with…

Did you go inside the sphere? I think she went inside the sphere.  Back in my days at film school in the late ’90s, cinema geeks intentionally tossing out any number of ridiculously repetitive dialogue from director Barry Levinson’s $100 million sci-fi flick “Sphere” immediately set off a hilarious chorus of “I saw you go inside the sphere” jokes.   This of course was a reference to the mysterious golden orb discovered in the derelict underwater spaceship that takes center stage in Michael Crichton’s bestselling 1987 novel, “Sphere,” which became…