Captain Marvel’s New Geostationary Home
Captain Marvel, Marvel’s Captain Marvel – Carol Danvers that is – has a new assignment and new digs. In the latest Captain Marvel #1 issue from Marvel, Carol takes the job as the Commander of the Alpha Flight Space Station, Earth’s first line of defense. The massive...
How “Real” Are the Worlds of Star Wars and Star Trek?
So you say that you like the planets in Star Wars and Star Trek, but are really jonesing to go to one of those places in real life? In this video from Wired, Visualization Scientist Robert Hurk from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory discusses analogues for Star Wars’...
Krypton, Is That You?
A doomed planet orbiting a red giant star that takes 52 days to complete an orbit. Is this a DC Comics marketing stunt? This time it’s not called Krypton, and we're not talking about Superman. It’s called Kepler-432b. It’s about 3,000 light years away from earth and...
Could a Counter-Earth Exist?
It's...not quite a cliché in science fiction, but it's a well-worn premise: there's another planet in our solar system, but we can't see it. Why? It's on the exact opposite side of the sun from earth, and takes the same amount of time for an orbit, so we can never,...
The Simpsons: Betrayed by the Moon?
Do we now have a better idea of where Springfield, the hometown of The Simpsons is, thanks to Elon Musk and the moon? Maybe. Over at Slate, Phil Plait has one of those "Waitaminute!" moments while re-watching the recent episode of The Simpsons that guest starred Elon...
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