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The sci-fi train is showing no signs of slowing down as we barrel into the summer. Alongside the talented quartet, we've got Pixar's Elio, Marvel's Ironheart, James Gunn's Superman reboot, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 all on the docket for June and July. There's also Jurassic World: Rebirth, which doesn't seem very space-y, but that mutant dinosaur in the trailer looks an awful lot like a Rancor.
There aren't quite as many sci-fi games out recently, but that's fine; I'm too busy playing Blue Prince anyway. The future looks bright, though, as Titanfall developer Respawn is teaming up with Bit Reactor to make an X-COM style strategy game set in the Star Wars universe. Yes please, all of that!
Meanwhile, Microsoft is continuing its mission to spread the love across platforms in August, bringing a Gears of War remaster to PC, Xbox, and… drum roll, please… PlayStation 5! I'll take any excuse to replay Gears of War, and getting to crossplay with my buddies on PlayStation will be rad.
There's no lightsabers or planet-killing super-weapons (yet), but the latest season of the 'Rogue One' prequel shows what the Rebels are fighting against.
E-Day is still a ways off, but the 2006 original Gears of War is getting a remaster that's emerging on Xbox, PS5, and PC with better graphics and performance in August.
Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our home system.
Watch SpaceX's Cargo Dragon undock from the ISS today | NASA's JPL ending telework for over 5,500 employees | Chinese astronauts add debris shield to Tiangong station
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SpaceX's 32nd robotic Dragon cargo mission is set to undock from the International Space Station (ISS). Dragon will depart from the ISS on Friday at 12:05 p.m. EDT (1605 GMT) and splash down off the California coast early Sunday morning (May 25). NASA will stream the undocking live on its NASA+ platform, beginning at 11:45 a.m. EDT (1545 GMT) on Friday. You can also watch the action in the window above via Sen's 4k 24/7 high-definition cameras, which are mounted on the station's exterior. The splashdown will not be webcast.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has told more than 5,500 hybrid and telework employees that they must return to a full on-site work schedule.
The move effectively ends remote work at JPL, which had been a fixture at the Pasadena, California lab since the pandemic. Many of JPL's nearly 5,500 employees work on hybrid, or fully-remote schedules. Employees were notified via email Thursday (May 22) that an end to telework would take effect on Aug. 25 for general employees within California, and Oct. 27 for teleworkers living outside the state.
"Employees who do not return by their required date will be considered to have resigned," JPL officials said in a workforce-wide email that was obtained by Space.com.
This was the 19th time taikonauts aboard Tiangong have conducted an EVA; many of these spacewalks have focused on installing debris shields to the station's exterior. With assistance from the station's robotic arm, Dong and Zhongrui successfully positioned a protective sheet on a designated exterior location on Tiangong. The pair also performed routine station maintenance and equipment inspections.
Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner. In the new study, astronomers investigated a pulsar known as PSR J1928+1815 located about 455 light-years from Earth. A pulsar is a kind of neutron star, a corpse of a large star that perished in a catastrophic explosion known as a supernova. The gravitational pull of the star's remains would have been strong enough to crush together protons and electrons to form neutrons, meaning a neutron star is mostly made of neutrons. That makes it very (very) dense.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has cleared SpaceX's giant Starship rocket for its ninth-ever liftoff. The FAA announced the decision today (May 22) after taking a long look at the anomaly that occurred on Starship's most recent mission, which launched on March 6. "The FAA conducted a comprehensive safety review of the SpaceX Starship Flight 8 mishap and determined that the company has satisfactorily addressed the causes of the mishap, and therefore, the Starship vehicle can return to flight," FAA officials said in a statement today. "With the Starship vehicle return-to-flight determination, Starship Flight 9 is authorized for launch."
A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets - something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly impossible. Humanity's ability to image the heavens has improved by leaps and bounds since the invention of the telescope in 1608. Although the earliest of these images were far from clear, astronomers from generations ago could already observe craters on our moon, identify four of Jupiter's moons, and reveal a diffuse ribbon of light arching across the sky -- what we now know represents the Milky Way's structure.
There are creatures here on Earth that may give us clues on getting "chat-time" with extraterrestrial intelligence -- dolphins, which are famously social and smart. Recently, the Coller Dolittle Challenge awarded the winner of its first $100,000 annual prize to accelerate progress toward interspecies two-way communication. A prize of equal value will be awarded every year until a team deciphers the secret to interspecies communication. This year's winning team of researchers has discovered that dolphin whistles could function like words -- with mutually understood, context-specific meaning.
DC Studios' "Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow" is currently still in production in the UK, but we've compiled all the bits and pieces of intelligence we could gather to bring fans an up-to-date account of the film's progress. She might live in Superman's broad shadow, but some of that legacy territory might change next year when Kara takes flight in her own big-budget cinematic showcase. Let's lift off with everything we know about "Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow!"
