Month: March 2023

The entire gaming cosmos will part like the Red Sea later this summer to make room for the imminent emergence of Microsoft and Bethesda Softworks’ “Starfield,” the upcoming sci-fi role-playing experience poised to dominate the video game marketplace for the foreseeable future. This epic convergence of creativity, imagination, and carefully placed pixels has been delayed several times since the project was first announced back at Bethesda’s E3 press event in 2018 and subsequently pushed out past 2022.  Now the legendary developers have just announced the official drop date for “Starfield”…

A newfound comet might light up the skies in fall of 2024, if we’re lucky. But before focusing on our latest comet discovery, I first want to mention that this month marks the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Comet Kohoutek. If you are of a certain age, you might cringe a little with the mere mention of that particular celestial object.  As has often been said, the only thing predictable about comets is their unpredictability. When Comet Kohoutek was discovered when still remarkably far from the sun — out…

A newly discovered asteroid may make a perilously close approach to Earth about 20 years from now, with a roughly 1-in-600 chance that the space rock will collide directly with our planet, NASA officials said this week.  While that’s a higher-than-average risk level for near-Earth asteroids, it’s still a “very small chance” of impact, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office tweeted (opens in new tab) — and that risk level is expected to decline as clearer observations of the asteroid become available. First detected on Feb. 27, the asteroid dubbed 2023…