We’re only halfway through April, and we’re already getting another round of title additions (and subtractions) from Xbox Game Pass. However, with every new game coming to the service, there is another game that we must say goodbye to. In a blog post, Xbox has announced what’s new for Game Pass in the second half…
When Michael Lindsay-Hogg was tapped to direct a making-of documentary to accompany work on The Beatles’ 1970 album Let It Be, he had no way of knowing that his film would instead document the break-up of the group in real-time. With its dreary vibe and even moments of outright bitchiness, like when Paul McCartney condescendingly…
The 2024 solar eclipse was a brilliant cosmic display. While I didn’t get to see the totality for myself (I was out of town at the time, unfortunately), a lot of photographers have captured the spectacle on film, providing us with beautiful photos to drool over. While I’ve been extremely impressed by all of them,…
The remarkably dense JWST-ER1 galaxy and its Einstein ring, as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope last year. (Image credit: P. van Dokkum et al., Nature Astronomy accepted, 2023) A fresh analysis of a remarkably massive yet compact galaxy from the early universe suggests that dark matter interacts with itself. The galaxy, JWST-ER1, which…
Boeing Starliner for Crew Flight Test rolls past the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 16, 2024. (Image credit: Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images) Boeing’s first Starliner spacecraft for astronauts made a short road trip today (April 16) ahead of its expected launch in early May. Starliner rolled out on a…
Scene from “Star Trek: Lower Decks.” (Image credit: Paramount+) Thing are definitely heating up in the “Star Trek” universe this month. The fifth and final season of Paramount+’s “Star Trek: Discovery” rolled out on April 4, and “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is fast approaching the completion of principal filming for its upcoming third season…
(Main) a view of the distant quasar SDSS J114816.64+525150.3 located 12.9 billion light-years away (inset) an illustration of a quasar (Image credit: Virtual Telescope Project/ESO/M. Kornmesser) Astronomers have imaged a feeding black hole-powered quasar at the very edge of the universe, so far away that it was seen as it appeared less than 1 billion…
The night sky from a cornfield in Freedom, Indiana. (Image credit: Josh Dinner) When we look up at the night sky, we see familiar stars and constellations that have been visible for thousands of years. Yet stars do not last forever. They live and die, though on exceptionally long timescales. But how long will it…
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Belching factory smokestacks and black smoke pouring from muscle-car tailpipes made the air unsafe to breathe in parts of the United States before legislation passed in the 1960s and the following decades helped reversed the trend. But now experts say a “climate penalty” is kicking in, with climate change worsening a key aspect of air…
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