Sci-fi movies are fun, but they have a tendency to ignore reality for the sake of a good story. Here's what movies get wrong about space. And TV shows, too. Why not? Let the buzzkilling commence.

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Space is dirty. Filthy. It's littered with asteroids, and rocks, and dust. Some of that material falls to the earth. When it enters the atmosphere, we call it a meteor. If it lands, it's a meteorite.

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.

On July 8, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean. The Starfish Prime test created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii, nearly 900 ...

David Strathairn plays a Vietnam veteran who wants to shield his daughter-in-law from hard truths about her husband in this melodrama set in North Carolina. By Natalia Winkelman When you purchase a ...

Since ownership of celestial bodies is prohibited under Article 2 of the Outer Space Treaty (OST) of 1967, how can a U.S. lunar mining company claim exclusive access to a resource-rich crater near the ...