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'Aliens: The Video Games' author Mike Diver on overlooked Alien games, tracking down retro game developers, and the future of the Xenomorph (interview)

We chat to author Mike Diver about this complete chronicle of Alien video games.

Starbase Louisiana: SpaceX announces enormous $100 billion Starbase launch site

A new spaceport will bring 10 launch pads to Louisiana's Gulf Coast and support thousands of Starship launches per year.

The bubbling surface of doomed supergiant star Betelgeuse has been revealed like never before

Betelgeuse may be a well-known and often-studied stellar object, but that doesn't mean astronomers aren't capable of capturing this doomed …

The Roman Space Telescope will reveal the universe in a way the JWST and Hubble cannot

"The images it captures will be so large there is not a screen in existence large enough to show them."

Sun fires powerful M6.9 solar flare and CME toward Earth — could it boost northern lights chances this week?

A restless Earth-facing sunspot has been firing off a barrage of powerful solar flares — and now a CME could be heading our way.

Astronauts make history repairing the ISS | Space photo of the day for Aug. 25, 2026

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon complete a spacewalk on Aug. 18, 2026.

On this day in space! Aug. 25, 1997: NASA launches Advanced Composition Explorer to track solar wind and so much more

On Aug. 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite to study energetic particles traveling through space, i…

Polish startup Ares Shield hired to protect data center satellites with high-power microwave weapons

Florida-based Lonestar Data Holdings has contracted Polish startup Ares Shield to provide protection for its off-Earth data centers, in a d…

NASA satellites ace world's 1st 'lost-in-space' GPS-free navigation experiment

No GPS? No problem. A team of NASA satellites are extending their stay in space after successfully proving out navigation by other means.

Stream 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' and 'Silo' securely from anywhere with 87% off Surfshark VPN

Want to watch your favorite shows wherever you boldly go? From Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 to Silo's upcoming finale, stream and…

What time is the partial lunar eclipse on Aug. 27-28? Here's when to see the 96% 'blood moon'

Don't miss the best lunar eclipse until New Year's Eve 2028. Here's when to look up to catch the deep partial lunar eclipse on Aug. 27-28.

Watch 2 astronauts replace failed ISS antenna during spacewalk today

NASA astronaut Anil Menon and France's Sophie Adenot will conduct a spacewalk today (Aug. 25) to replace a space-to-ground-antenna on the I…

Pluto losing its planet status may be the best thing that ever happened to solar system diversity

Unpopular opinion time, Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet was a great thing for our understanding of the solar system and for the …

'Ghosts of Mars' at 25: Are we any closer to living on the Red Planet? We asked the experts

John Carpenter's 'Ghosts of Mars' explored a future where Mars is terraformed, but is it closer to becoming a reality? We spoke to the expe…

'Project Hail Mary' and 'The Martian' author Andy Weir is headed back to outer space, but not how you'd expect

Weir will executive produce "Exoplanet," a new Audible sci-fi drama coming this fall.

Goodbye, Falcon 9: SpaceX planning to retire workhorse launcher when Starship is up and running

SpaceX plans to retire its workhorse Falcon 9 once it gets the next-gen Starship megarocket online. But what will removing one of the most-…

SpaceX will set rocket-reuse record on 100th Falcon 9 launch of the year early Aug. 25: Watch it live

SpaceX will set a new rocket-reuse record early Tuesday morning (Aug. 25), on its 100th Falcon 9 flight of the year. You can watch the acti…

Why do we care so much that Pluto isn't a planet?

Twenty years after Pluto became a dwarf planet, people are still fighting over its status. Experts explain why the debate feels so personal.