A New Star Trek Movie Will Explore the Origins of Starfleet
Star Trek has been doing quite well on TV of late but it’s time to beam back to the big screen. While a fourth Star Trek film on the Kelvin…
It’s a Race Against Time to Recover Parts of Doomed Moon Landing Mission
Astrobotic, the team behind the Peregrine spacecraft, is urgently working to extract any possible value from its failing mission. This comes after a catastrophic propellant leak occurred just after yesterday’s…
Historic Moon Mission Is Falling Apart After ‘Critical’ Fuel Loss
A mission to land a private U.S. lander on the Moon, and the first U.S. lander since the Apollo era, looks to be ending before it even had a chance…
The Moon Is About to Become a Graveyard
An upcoming launch will usher in a new era of commercial payloads being dropped off to deep space destinations like the Moon. As we gain greater access to space, things…
Star Wars Drama, Doctor Who Complaints, and 2024 Previews in the Culture News of the Week
The first week of 2024 is over, and we celebrated by looking ahead—with what to read, what to watch, and what Lego to buy, of course, as well as a…
Patrick Stewart Says a Picard Star Trek Movie Is in the Works
Image: Paramount Ever since Star Trek: Picard came to a final end with its third season, Patrick Stewart has been seemingly unwilling to say goodbye to a character that he’s…
Seth MacFarlane Just Gave New Hope to Orville Fans Across the Galaxy
The Orville’s third season finale, which sure felt like it could be a series finale, warned you right in its title: “Future Unknown.” But though there’ve been no new Orville…
Swarming Robots, DNA, and Bitcoin: The Wild List of Stuff Heading to the Moon Next Week
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander is slated to blast off on Monday, January 8, carrying an assortment of goodies, including cutting-edge scientific rovers, bitcoin, and a piece of Mount Everest. No…
2024 Is a Hell of a Year in Star Trek History
Screenshot: Paramount Extinction avoided is nice, but that doesn’t stop other bad things existing in Trek’s 2024. Remember those Sanctuary Districts we mentioned earlier? They begin cropping up in major…
io9’s Top 100 Posts of 2023
Image: Hasbro Ten years ago, Hasbro announced something akin to a disturbance in the Force—and Star Wars toy fans’ wallets: The Black Series, a brand new line that would bump…