29 Years Ago Today, Tim Burton’s Iconic Sci-Fi Flop Was Released (And Its Ensemble Cast Has Still Never Been Beaten)

If there has ever been a criminally underrated Tim Burton movie, this is that stacked cast of a Tim Burton movie.
Digital Trends

NASA heads to Death Valley to test new Mars drone tech

After reaching Mars with the Perseverance rover in early 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter proved a huge success as it exceeded expectations with an astonishing 72 flights across the Martian surface.
Chicago Tribune

Aldermen call for garbage fee and liquor tax increases instead of corporate head tax

A City Council majority came out with a budget plan Tuesday that raises garbage collection fees and liquor taxes while eliminating Mayor Brandon Johnson’s corporate head tax entirely for 2026, hours ...
The Daily Item

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says attacks against his proposed head tax ‘would make Donald Trump blush’

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson delivered a stinging rebuke to opponents of his 2026 budget plan on Tuesday, signaling he will continue digging his heels in on his controversial head tax proposal ...
The New York Times

NASA Rover Makes a Shocking Discovery: Lightning on Mars

The Perseverance rover picked up audio evidence of electric discharges in the red planet’s atmosphere. By Kenneth Chang It is shocking but not surprising. Lightning crackles on Mars, scientists ...
PC Gamer

For 33 years, a 'true story' about the 'resonant frequency of a chicken's skull cavity' written in an MS-DOS help file has fueled an urban legend that a certain sound ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earlier this year, we relayed a story about how Janet Jackson's song Rhythm Nation just so ...
Live Science

Odd-looking rock on Mars is totally alien to the Red Planet, Perseverance rover finds

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot has found on the Red Planet. It turns out that it probably isn't from our ...
New York Post

NASA discovers rock on Mars that shouldn’t be there — and scientists think it’s a visitor from outer space

Like an interstellar rolling stone. NASA scientists were baffled after uncovering a rock on Mars that didn’t belong there — with a composition pointing to potentially interstellar origins. “This rock ...
Scientific American

Mars Sample That May Contain Evidence of Life Might Never Come Home

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds of scientists back on Earth, the Perseverance rover has traveled ...
PBS

NASA’s latest ESCAPADE is sending twin low-cost orbiters to examine Mars’ atmosphere

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and ...
Space.com

Next stop, not Mars: Why NASA's twin ESCAPADE probes are taking the long way to the Red Planet after Blue Origin launch

The twin ESCAPADE Mars probes just took flight — but they won't reach their destination until late 2027. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...