The “Man in the Moon” is older than we thought. Scientists have proposed resetting the lunar clock after reassessing impact craters on the surface of the moon. This means that some features of the moon, like the formation that makes up the face of the “Man in the Moon” formation could be 200 million years older than previously theorized. The new dating system could help to better tell the story of the evolution of the lunar surface and has important implications for our understanding of the violent and turbulent early…
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“Foundation” season 2 review: Stick with it and you will be rewarded
A mere decade ago, nobody would ever have dared take a punt on adapting Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation.” No traditional T.V. network would have had the patience, the BBC could never have justified the budget, and even cable giant HBO (who’d had a decent track record of bringing sprawling book sagas to the screen after “Game of Thrones”) would have balked at a big-budget science fiction drama that took at least a season-and-a-half to give you a decent sense of where it’s headed. Indeed, even in an era when streaming giants…
Read MoreA tale of two space rocks: The year ‘Deep Impact’ and ‘Armageddon’ smashed onto the silver screen
1998 was a bad year to be planet Earth. Call it a quirk of fate, call it multiple Hollywood studios having the same idea at the same time, but somehow humanity found itself on a collision course with two oversized lumps of rock and ice. One was a comet named Wolf-Biederman, the other an asteroid known simply as Dottie, and each had the potential to wipe out all life as we know it. Just two years after “Independence Day” had rained down an apocalypse from giant alien spaceships, watching the…
Read MoreNASA Awards Sounding Rocket Operations Follow-On Contract
NASA has awarded the Sounding Rocket Operations IV (NSROC IV) contract to Peraton Inc. of Herndon, Virginia, to support suborbital flight operations managed by the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Read MoreNASA to Host Small Business Administration’s Annual Scorecard Event
Media are invited to join NASA and Small Business Administration leadership at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 18, at NASA Headquarters in Washington to highlight how federal agencies rank on meeting their small business goals.
Read MoreThree Cheers for NASA Orion Crew Modules for Future Artemis Missions
Work is being done on the Orion spacecraft for NASAs crewed Artemis II, Artemis III, and Artemis IV missions at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Read More‘Star Wars’ TV shows snag 22 Emmy nominations
The Force proved strong at Wednesday morning’s (July 12) official announcement ceremony for the 75th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Hollywood. Three shows from Disney+ and Lucasfilm’s galaxy far, far away were honored with a total of 22 Emmy nominations. “Andor,” “The Mandalorian,” and “Obi-Wan Kenobi” all nabbed Emmy nods in multiple categories, including Outstanding Drama Series for Tony Gilroy’s crowd-pleasing “Andor” and Outstanding Limited Series for the prequel miniseries “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” Related: ‘Star Wars’ movies in order: Chronological and release Stellan Skarsgard as Luthen Rael in “Andor.” (Image credit:…
Read MoreThe Barchan Dunes of Brazil
Former NASA astronaut Jack Fischer captured this photograph of Lagoa dos Barros and crescent-shaped barchan dunes on the Atlantic coastline of southern Brazil on July 9, 2017, while aboard the International Space Station.
Read More‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ costume designer dishes on her dazzling outfits (exclusive)
For any reputable costume designer blessed with a fertile imagination and a keen eye for fashion, providing the 23rd-century outfits for characters in the “Star Trek” universe is truly a dream job. For the second season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” which launched on June 15 and streams exclusively on Paramount+, Bernadette Croft (“Star Trek: Discovery”) and her Toronto-based costuming team have been churning out futuristic wardrobes for not only the officers and crew of the USS Enterprise but also a range of alien races scattered across the galaxy.…
Read MoreGlobal temperatures were the hottest on record for 3 days in a row in July
For the past three days, from Monday through Wednesday (July 3-5), global temperatures have either broken or matched records for the hottest day on Earth since at least 1979, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, a tool that compiles data and models to measure the global atmosphere. Monday’s average worldwide temperature climbed to 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit (17 degrees Celsius), while Tuesday (July 4) and Wednesday (July 5) both hit 62.9 F (17.2 C). While these temperatures may not seem particularly high, they represent the global average, which combines…
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