12 of the weirdest ‘Masters of the Universe’ characters
By the power of… what the hell is that? If you thought the patrons of the Mos Eisley Cantina were strange, they’ve got nothing on He-Man and Skeletor’s entourages.
Day June 4, 2026
Most exoplanets might be ‘soot factories,’ scientists say: ‘Like you have a natural diesel engine’
A chemical engineer noticed that the spectra of the hazy atmosphere of mini-Neptune planets looked like the soot produced by combustion engines.
Colorful, Chaotic Jupiter
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing by Gary Eason © CC BY NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere during its 61st close flyby of the giant planet on May 12, 2024. Citizen scientist Gary Eason made this image…
NASA’s dead Mars orbiter MAVEN will crash into the Red Planet in the next 100 years. It’s not the only probe in the Mars morgue
NASA just declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after a dozen productive years circling the Red Planet. Here’s the fate that awaits the probe.
A rainbow patchwork quilt shows agriculture from space | Space photo of the day for June 4, 2026
A rainbow blanket of patchwork colors sprawls across South Africa in this new composite image created using data from NASA’s latest Earth-observing mission.