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Take a Brief Vacation From Reality With These 6 Short Sci-Fi and Horror Films

Dreaming of other planets, other realities, or other timelines? So far, 2020 has us wishing we could be literally anywhere else. Here’s a temporary escape hatch: these awesome new short films, all of which share glimpses of a future where so much more has gone wrong. At least we aren’t there… yet? 1) Triangulation We’ve…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Fast 9 Going to Space Might Not Be So Ludicrous After All

With eight core films, one spin-off, and an animated series under its belt, Universal’s Fast & Furious franchise revving up for its ninth installment of the Fast family’s ridiculous story about how a group of street racers ended up becoming…superheroes, more or less, whose abilities all revolve around being real good at making cars go…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

People Have Committed More Than $300,000 for a NASA-Designed Perfume That Smells Like Space

There are so many things ordinary folk, aka people who are not astronauts, want to know about space. Apparently, what space smells like is one of the burning questions thousands of people ask themselves. Since it’s probable that all those people won’t be able to travel to space in the near future, they’re doing the…

Space & Spaceflight Jody Serrano

NASA: Help Us Make Pooping on the Moon Even Better

Has there ever been a more important duty? (heh… duty) When the Apollo astronauts went to the moon back in the ‘60s, they got there on a spacecraft with precisely zero bathrooms. For going number one, NASA provided them with a rubber tube the crew could put on like a condom that would whisk pee away…

Space & Spaceflight Alyse Stanley

TNT and TBS Are Developing a Sequel to the 1985 Film D.A.R.Y.L. Starring Tony Hale

In 1985, Paramount Pictures released a film called D.A.R.Y.L. About a computerized superintelligence in the form of a ten-year-old boy, it starred the child actor Barret Oliver alongside Mary Beth Hurt and Michael McKean. It did not sell particularly well, nor did it review particularly well. Regardless, TNT and TBS are making a sequel. According…

io9 Julie Muncy

SpaceX’s Starship Prototype Explodes in Fourth Failed Test

Like everything else in 2020, the fourth prototype of SpaceX’s next-generation rocket has gone up in flames. It’s the latest in a series of spectacular explosions to plague the company’s Starship program. Shortly before 3 p.m. ET on Friday, the Starship SN4 prototype underwent a ground-level trial of its Raptor engine known as a static-fire…

Space & Spaceflight Alyse Stanley

Intergalactic Pulses Solve Mystery of Universe’s Missing Matter

Scientists have spent three decades trying to locate half of all the “normal” matter that’s supposed to exist in the universe. A new paper is claiming to have finally found this missing stuff, in a discovery made possible by measuring incoming fast radio bursts. “We know from measurements of the Big Bang how much matter…

Physics & Chemistry George Dvorsky

How Netflix’s Space Force Acts Like a Parallel Universe to Our Own

Fans looking to blame something or someone that the American version of The Office hasn’t returned need only look to the stars. In the seven years since that show’s end, its creator and executive producer Greg Daniels has been working almost solely on shows with space or sci-fi themes. His latest show, Netflix’sSpace Force, reunites…

io9 Germain Lussier

NASA’s Human Spaceflight Chief Resigns Days Before Critical SpaceX Launch Over Unspecified ‘Mistake’

NASA’s associate administrator for the human exploration and operations mission directorate, Doug Loverro, has abruptly and unexpectedly resigned—after just seven months in that role and just over a week before the first manned test of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule. That SpaceX test is slated to be the first time NASA has dispatched astronauts to the…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay

Space Force‘s New Trailer Wants You to Remember the Very Silly Humans Behind Its Premise

Our first looks at Netflix’s riff on the distinctly very not funny reality of the U.S. government wanting to establish a military branch dedicated to Star Trek riffs and super-duper missiles leaned heavily into the absurdity of its premise. This latest trailer for Space Force goes beyond that to show the human struggles and conflicts…

Trailers James Whitbrook

Trump: Look Out World, America’s Developing ‘Super-Duper’ Missiles

On Friday, President Donald Trump unveiled the official flag of the United States Space Force and, in his latest display of unparalleled oratorical excellence, touted a new “super duper missile” from the Department of Defense that’s sure to make the likes of China and Russia pee their pants. As part of an Oval Office ceremony…

Space & Spaceflight Alyse Stanley

Tom Cruise Knows You Can’t Run in Space, Right?

Dangling out of the side of various types of air vehicles and running forever is apparently no longer enough to rustle Tom Cruise’s jimmies. So naturally, he’s going…to space? Deadline reports Cruise is collaborating with both NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX—presumably, until Musk decides to randomly financially kneecap this particular venture with some dumb tweets,…

Movies James Whitbrook

Space Force‘s First Trailer Is Funny Until You Realize How Close to Reality It Is

The concept of the U.S. Government establishing a new branch of the military just to muck about in space is patently funny on its face, but the more you think about it, the more depressing it becomes because it’s a dumb waste of taxpayer dollars…regardless of how many UFOs we think we’ve seen. Space Force’s…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore

Say There Were a Black Hole in Our Solar System: How Would We Find It?

Last year, scientists published a paper with an iconic diagram: a black circle representing, to scale, a 5-solar-mass black hole—and the size of the hypothetical Planet Nine if it were a black hole instead of a planet. So, if Planet Nine really is a black hole, how would we find it? Physicist Edward Witten, famed…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum

The Scientists Who Won’t Give Up on the Warp Drive

For most of us, traveling faster than the cosmic speed limit—the speed of light—is a science-fiction fantasy that breaks the very foundation of modern physics. But in the eyes of an engineering undergrad at the University of Alabama in Huntsville named Joseph Agnew, it’s a theory worthy of study. The idea first came to Agnew…

Physics & Chemistry Rahul Rao

The Writer of Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular Has Launched a Free Sci-Fi Audio Drama

Game developer and writer Mike Bithell made a name for himself with the clever mechanical heartbreak of Thomas Was Alone, the heady sci-fi ideas of Subsurface Circular and its followup Quarantine Circular (also? a surprisingly good John Wick tactics game). But now, while we wait for his next video game, he’s turned his writing chops…

io9 James Whitbrook

The Space Shuttle Was a Beautiful—but Terrible—Idea

In 2005, then-NASA administrator Michael Griffin shocked the aerospace community when he openly criticized the Space Shuttle program, describing it to USA Today as a “mistake,” “just barely possible,” and “not the right path” for the United States. Griffin’s comments were astonishing, given that the program was still in full swing and very much celebrated by…

Science George Dvorsky

To Celebrate Hubble’s 30th Anniversary, NASA’s Sharing What It Snapped on Your Birthday

Next week marks the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch, and NASA’s celebrating its birthday with another launch: a new search feature to find out what out-of-this-world photo Hubble captured on your birthday. Given that Hubble has been snapping pics 24 hours a day, seven days a week since 1990, it’s a fitting…

Space & Spaceflight Alyse Stanley

America’s First Crewed Space Launch in Nearly a Decade Set for May 27

Next month, NASA will launch its first astronaut mission from U.S. soil in almost a decade. This mission marks the final test for SpaceX before NASA begins regularly ferrying astronauts into orbit using the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. “BREAKING: On May 27, @NASA will once again launch American astronauts on American rockets from American soil!”…

Space & Spaceflight Alyse Stanley

Take a Brief Vacation From Reality With These 6 Short Sci-Fi and Horror Films

Fast 9 Going to Space Might Not Be So Ludicrous After All

People Have Committed More Than $300,000 for a NASA-Designed Perfume That Smells Like Space

NASA: Help Us Make Pooping on the Moon Even Better

TNT and TBS Are Developing a Sequel to the 1985 Film D.A.R.Y.L. Starring Tony Hale

SpaceX’s Starship Prototype Explodes in Fourth Failed Test

Intergalactic Pulses Solve Mystery of Universe’s Missing Matter

How Netflix’s Space Force Acts Like a Parallel Universe to Our Own

NASA’s Human Spaceflight Chief Resigns Days Before Critical SpaceX Launch Over Unspecified ‘Mistake’

Space Force‘s New Trailer Wants You to Remember the Very Silly Humans Behind Its Premise

Trump: Look Out World, America’s Developing ‘Super-Duper’ Missiles

Tom Cruise Knows You Can’t Run in Space, Right?

Space Force‘s First Trailer Is Funny Until You Realize How Close to Reality It Is

Say There Were a Black Hole in Our Solar System: How Would We Find It?

The Scientists Who Won’t Give Up on the Warp Drive

The Writer of Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular Has Launched a Free Sci-Fi Audio Drama

The Space Shuttle Was a Beautiful—but Terrible—Idea

To Celebrate Hubble’s 30th Anniversary, NASA’s Sharing What It Snapped on Your Birthday

America’s First Crewed Space Launch in Nearly a Decade Set for May 27

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‘The Batman II’ Should Be Out This Weekend. Why Do We Care?

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