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Watch This o ffers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: movies in space copy. This week: WithVoyagers now in theaters and Stowaway on Netflix next week, we’re looking to the stars for five days of space movies. Advertisement The Wandering Earth (2019) “You might say that each and every one of us is a crew member, here on Spaceship Earth.” So declares the astrophysicist played by David Hyde Pi...

As a young girl growing up in small-town Vermont, Aki Roberge dreamed of other worlds. An avid science fiction fan, she wondered if the kinds of planets she saw in the “Star Wars” movies, with their varied climates, cultures, creatures and civilizations, might really exist. For more than a decade now, she has been exploring such possibilities, searching not for parched Tatooine or ice-clad Hoth, but for real exoplanets — planets orbiting other stars. Now a research scientist in N...

Queensland Music Awards 2021: Rising stars honoured in nominations Music by Amy Price Premium Content Subscriber only Queenslands rising music stars have been honoured as finalists at the 2021 Queensland Music Awards after a record number of entries. Continuing her meteoric rise since the release of her debut album last year, Miiesha landed three nominations - across the indigenous, remote and soul categories - for her song Twisting Words. The Indigenous ...

Wokeness: ‘It’s About the Money’ Commentary I’m beginning to think H. L. Mencken’s famous apothegm—“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money”—would make a good Eleventh Commandment or at least something to bear in mind on almost any occasion. Wokeness—no matter what “justice” veneer you put on it—is about the money. It’s about taking the money from those who have more and giving it to those who have less—or supposedly have less. Sometim...

As a young girl growing up in small-town Vermont, Aki Roberge dreamed of other worlds. An avid science fiction fan, she wondered if the kinds of planets she saw in the “Star Wars” movies, with their varied climates and cultures, creatures and civilizations, might really exist. Today, and for more than a decade now, she actually explores such possibilities, searching not for parched Tatooine or ice-clad Hoth, but for real exoplanets — planets orbiting other stars. Dr. Aki Roberge,...

Image: Luis M. Molina/Gizmodo, Getty Images To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Five years ago, NASA researchers experimented with an object called the EmDrive (or electromagnetic drive), a Y-shaped metal chamber in which, they reported, thrust could be produced without propellant. S...

Image: Luis M. Molina/Gizmodo (Getty Images) Five years ago, NASA researchers experimented with an object called the EmDrive (or electromagnetic drive), a Y-shaped metal chamber in which, they reported, thrust could be produced without propellant. Such a contraption would refute core principles of physics as we know them and eliminate a huge barrier to deep space travel by nullifying the need to carry fuel. Ultimately, the hope riding on EmDrive was that propellant-less thrusters would make tra...

For PC, 1999 Was The Golden Year Share To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Kotaku Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. We’ve had a bit of a discussion about golden years, particularly the massive string of games that dropped in the late ’90s. But if you were a PC gamer in particular, there was one year that changed the shap...

The first interstellar comet ever observed has much in common with our local representative, Comet Hale-Bopp. Written By: Bob King for the Duluth News Tribune | 2:51 pm, Apr. 1, 2021 × This image of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov was taken with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in late 2019, when comet passed near the Sun. Since it was travelling around 108,700 miles per hour (175,000 kph) the background stars appear as streaks of light as the telescope fo...

Beef bourguignon and almond cake are among the dishes a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut is looking forward to tucking into when he returns to the International Space Station (ISS) courtesy of SpaceX. Set to launch on April 22, Thomas Pesquet will be the first ESA astronaut to fly on a SpaceX Crew Dragon being launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida. He will accompany Nasa astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur and Jaxa (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshi...