[GUEST POST] Rob Boffard on How Close We Are to Having a Large-Scale Habitat In Orbit
An enormous habitat validates humanity's awesomeness [...]
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Friday YouTube: That Time a Gorilla Chased an Astronaut in Zero-G, Benny Hill Style!
I hate when this happens [...]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Red Dwarfs
Space is cool. Here's one reason why. [...]
How to Survive Space (According to the Movies)
Everything I incorrectly learned about space I learned from movies... [...]
The Three Hoarsemen (Episode 30) – Space is Always a Metaphor with Leah Petersen
The Three Hoarsemen are talking Spaaaaaaaace... [...]
Watch This Captivating Tribute to the Apollo Space Missions
Remember that time we walked on the Moon? [...]
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Space Rocks
Do you know the difference between asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, meteorites and comets? [...]
Explore the Wonders of the Universe with “Star Stuff,” a Short Film Based on the Life of Carl Sagan
The life of of astronomer Carl Sagan inspires this wonderful short film. [...]
[GUEST POST] Adam Rowe on The Most Ridiculous Moon Landings in Science Fiction History
From a trip to the moon in hot air balloon, to climbing a ridiculously tall bean plant, Adam Rowe explores some of the silliest moon trips in SF. [...]
The Moon is a Planet” and Other Words of Wisdom from QVC
Admittedly, one does not turn to the shopping channel QVC to learn about the universe, but what a great lesson on the state of the world, eh? In this clip, viewers learn that [...]
[GUEST POST] Timothy Johnson on Five Needlessly Inaccurate Sci-Fi Myths and Their Awesome Truths
Timothy Johnson is a writer and editor living in Washington, D.C. with his wife and his dog. He is the author of the sci-fi/horror novel Carrier from Permuted Press. Nothing [...]
The Short Film “Wanderers” Showcases the Wonders of Our Own Solar System
Wanderers, a short film by Erik Wernquist. leverages the words and voice of Carl Sagan to inspire us to explore… The film is a vision of our humanity’s future [...]
Short Film: Ambition
Lest we forget how astounding a feat the milestone of this month’s Rosetta Mission was…there’s this short film to remind us. Cool stuff [...]
VIDEO: Astronaut – A Journey to Space
Guillaume Juin stitched together thousands of high resolution images taken by the crew of the International Space Station between 2011 and 2014 and created this stunning [...]
Lies That Sci-Fi Movies Have Taught Us About Space
Think you know all about space from watching movies? Guess [...]
AUDIO INTERVIEW: Kara Vallow, Animation Producer for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Kara Vallow has been a producer on Seth MacFarlane’s slate of animated shows such as Family Guy and American Dad, as well as Dilbert, Johnny Bravo, and Drawn Together. [...]
If The Moon Were Only 1 Pixel
Scientific accuracy is one of the reason I and our bagel-loving overlord enjoyed Andy Weir’s The Martian. One of the often overlooked points of accuracy are distances; [...]
VIDEO: Andy Weir, Author of THE MARTIAN, Talks at Google
I’m almost done reading Andy Weir’s debut novel The Martian and enjoying it quite a bit. (Review soon!) One of the reasons is the realistic science that’s [...]
VIDEO: Why Asteroids Fuel Human Expansion
Today’s science lesson is a short dicussion on why we might need asteroid [...]
NASA Remembers Neil Armstrong
With our heads often buried in science fiction, it’s easy to forget that we’ve been there. Here’s NASA’s video tribute to Neil Armstrong, 1 year after [...]
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