It's hard enough to keep a videogame character alive on Earth. In games like Sons of the Forest or The Long Dark, avoiding danger and withstanding the elements is a difficult task to be overcome. Horizon Journey is a new game that wants to add even more desperation to the genre, taking note from the space exploration of No Man's Sky or Starfield while leaning into the perils of trying to survive and create a new life in the inhospitable environment of Mars. It's also just announced an Early Access launch date that's coming up very soon. Continue reading New space game Horizon Journey is like The Forest but set on Mars

Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.

NASA's massive super-pressure balloon has completed a 16-day trip around the Southern Hemisphere a milestone in high-altitude flight and atmospheric research.

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A great villain whispers in stillness, but a truly mad one sings off key while lighting the match. Anime craves characters who bend reality like origami, folding it until it bleeds. These twisted minds paint chaos in brilliant strokes, each note a promise of catastrophe. They charm with mania, spin philosophies from broken dreams, and hold trauma as a twisted crown.

When ISS astronauts return home, they have a hot ride back to Earth's surface. It's been that way since the beginning of human spaceflight to orbital space and beyond. The incoming vehicle uses friction with Earth's atmosphere to slow down to a safe landing speed. The "hot ride" part comes because that friction builds up high temperatures on the spacecraft's "skin". Without protection, the searing heat of atmospheric re-entry could destroy it. This same heating happens to incoming meteoroids as they whip through Earth's atmosphere.

If astronomy has a Holy Grail, it's another habitable world. To find one, NASA is working with partners to develop the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). The HWO would be the first telescope built to detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars. China is building the Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES), and new research shows that by working together, HWO and CHES would amplify their results.

Researchers have identified several features on Mars that look surprisingly similar to conditions on Earth. One notable feature is giant wave-like landforms called solifluction lobes, which are in cold, mountainous regions of Earth, like the Arctic or Rocky Mountains. These are slow-moving patterns similar to fluids running downhill, but on Mars, they're 2.6 times larger because of its lower gravity. They can grow much taller before collapsing on Mars.