Leicestershire Live reports that residents of former coal mining town Coalville in England have discovered a deathstar in orbit.

Kind of.

Council stipulated that a new housing development include a landscaping scheme for the roundabout and rather than country garden, they went with deathstar.

With the world coming fresh out of a major pandemic during which many people worked from home for the first time and in jobs where that would normally not be an option, Cisco is launching new holo-meeting technology.

It's no holodeck but looks like an interesting step in that direction.

A new award winning, multisensory, immersive space exhibit will be opening at Sydney's International Convention Centre on November 22:

Star Trek has released another short teaser trailer for Prodigy.

Paramount+ Australia have also released the official trailer.

It's the same as the trailer released in early September but back then details about Australian release were still unknown.

As indicated in said trailer, it will release here on October 29 on Paramount+.

Legendary has announced the go ahead for the second Dune film with an ETA of October 20, 2023.

At the cinemas only. No same-day streaming release.

Having already performed strongly overseas prior to the US premiere, ticket sale expectations were high but tempered by uncertainty because of the simultaneous release on HBO Max.

Plans for two commercial space stations have been unveiled recently, both expected to be in operation this decade.

Nanoracks, Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin announced that they are developing the first free-flying commercial space station called Starlab which should begin operation by 2027.

NASA may have discovered  the first evidence of a planet outside of the the Milky Way.

In the Messier 51 (M51) Whirlpool Galaxy.

It's an exciting discovery but more data is required to confirm the planet candidate's location and the method use here may not be viable again for another 70 years because of its wide orbit.

While early reviewer impressions for Eternals looked promising, reviews and scores are now coming in and ScreenRant report that they're a bit on the low side.

Focusing on Dune's sandworms, this Wired piece looks at how the visual and sound effect teams tackled the gargantuan task.

In the visual department they converted their greenscreens to sandscreens so they could shoot in the desert to allow all of the beauty shots to look their most natural.

EditorX interviewed Dune's production designer, Paul Vermette to learn how its massive world was constructed.

This is an interesting piece which details how designers tried to make each planet's architecture and style be a realistic response to its environment and sometimes also politics.

And also weave together a range of different historical styles from Earth's history.