Sci-Fi
Spock-tacular! Tech Pioneer Boosts Plan for Leonard Nimoy Memorial
Efforts to create a memorial celebrating the legacy of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played a pointy-eared alien named Spock…
Check out This Amazing Fly-through of a Futuristic Space Habitat
Space settlement proponents and science fiction fans are likely familiar with the Stanford Torus, a gigantic donut-shaped spinning space habitat…
Science Fiction was an Inspiration for Many Professional Astronomers
What do MINBAR, TARDIS, Cardassian Expansion, BoRG, DS9, Tatooines, and ACBAR all have in common? They're names of astronomical surveys…
The Science — and Fun — Behind “Moonfall”
The master of disaster has struck again, and this time our Moon is the ominous villain. In “Moonfall,” film…
“TrekTalks” Telethon Calls upon Star Trek Fandom to Meet the Needs of the Many
I grew up watching Star Trek inspired by what Trek imagined the future could be. Earth had done away with…
Movie Review – Alien: Covenant
So, are you excited for the 2017 movie season? U.S. Memorial Day weekend is almost upon us, and that means…
New NASA-themed TV Pilot by ‘The Martian’ Author Andy Weir
Author Andy Weir, who wrote the bestselling novel “The Martian” on which the successful 2015 movie of the same name…
What is the Death Ray?
First proposed in the early 20th century, and a staple of science fiction for over a century, the concept of…
Book Review: The Caloris Network
Thinking of taking a vacation this summer? Maybe you want to distract yourself with a bit of light science fiction…
Finding “The Lost Science” of 2001: A Space Odyssey
The film 2001: A Space Odyssey brought space science to the general masses. Today we may consider it as common…