The current generation may be more familiar with the Tom Cruise vehicle of the same name than the original science fiction novel by H.G. Wells. Maybe they know about the radio series performed by Orson Welles in the 1930s.…
It’s been a while since something LEGO caught my eye, but this just struck me funny. It’s like a cross between Men in Black and every cheesy space movie from the…
Earlier this week – Wednesday, to be exact – we passed the 42nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 flight that resulted in the United States putting men on the moon. To celebrate this momentous achievement, here’s a list of five…
As if global warming and erratic weather patterns weren’t bad enough, there are scientists busily playing around with extreme forces of nature on a galactic scale. CERN researchers in France have been working at creating artificial black holes.…
In LEGO, that is. How can I possibly resist? Of course, I’m going to need a second home to actually display all of the LEGO creations that are demanding to be…
I’m sure this will shock and amaze everyone, but I’ve found another LEGO product to drool over. This one pretty much transcends everything that has come before it, however. I mean…a…
Sometimes, when science fiction and television meet, magic happens. The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica (excluding that horrendous finale) – all great examples of science fiction being proudly represented on television. When a sci-fi show is successful, it…
FAIRFAX, VA – Star Date: September 28, 2010 – Today, ThinkGeek is proud to announce the availability of its Star Trek Pizza Cutter. As pizza connoisseurs and Star Trek fans, the minds at ThinkGeek devised a product…
Black holes are collapsed stars with a gravitational pull such that nothing – not even light – can escape once a certain threshold, known as the event horizon, has been passed. They can only be observed indirectly by the…
Gliese 581 is a red dwarf – smaller and colder than our Sun – which is ‘only’ just over 20 light years from here and scientists just found an Earth-like planet orbiting around it. It is 1.5 times the…
Planets form around a star from what is known as an accretion disk, made of gas and dust. These younger, cooler stars are however in danger of having their nascent planets boiled off if they happen to be too…
Whereas the astronauts of the space Shuttle missions or the International Space Station (ISS) are protected by the Earth’s magnetic field, ships embarking for further long-term expeditions may be at risk from solar winds and other particles from outer…
