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In a new video released by NASA, the links between Star Trek and the International Space Station are explored. The video features Star Trek‘s...
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In a new video released by NASA, the links between Star Trek and the International Space Station are explored. The video features Star Trek‘s...
Nichelle Nichols, who played the original Uhura on Star Trek, is set to be part of an upcoming NASA mission. As hinted at during...
International Space Station astronaut Terry Virts (@AstroTerry) tweeted a fantastic photo of him giving a Vulcan hand salute from orbit as a tribute to...
On Thursday morning, Star Trek Into Darkness writer/producer Damon Lindelof and stars Chris Pine, Alice Eve and John Cho talked with NASA astronaut Chris...
In a recent interview with Business Insider, world-renowned astrophysicist, Star Talk Radio host and admitted Trekkie, Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed the age-old battle of...
‘Vulcan’ could be the name of Pluto’s recently discovered moons. The name, which Star Trek fans will know as Spock’s home planet, is currently...
In a new video, Star Trek‘s Leonard Nimoy explains NASA’s Dawn Mission, which launched a spacecraft in 2007 destined for the asteroid belt. The...
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, as part of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission, has died at the age of 82....
On Sunday, August 5th, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity landed safely on Mars a few hours ahead of schedule, despite some minor complications....
To boldly go where no man has gone before… In continuation of NASA’s tradition of extending Man’s reach beyond the confines of Earth and...
Last week, we discussed the reproductive nature of tribbles and what it implies about their evolution: they likely live in a state of stagnant...
On Tuesday May 22nd, SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, Florida carrying James “Scotty” Doohan’s cremated remains into space along with those...
Perhaps one of the cutest, and most annoying, creatures on Star Trek, tribbles were first revealed on the Original Series. In the episode “The...
Surely, fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation will remember LeVar Burton’s character, Geordi La Forge, one of the show’s most influential and inspiring...
Bolians were primarily featured as minor characters in Deep Space Nine, The Next Generation, and Voyager. Their personae often ranged from cowardly to greedy,...
Back in August, I wrote a detailed scientific critique of one of Star Trek’s more elusive technological concepts: the tractor beam; the ability to...
On October 19th 2011, the Roddenberry Foundation donated $5 million to the Gladstone Institute of the University of California, San Francisco. The generous gift...
Previously, science determined the implausibility of silicon- and ammonia-based life. Silicon is an element similar to carbon, which is why some astrobiologists consider it...
Previously, I posted a two-part article detailing the long, arduous process of abiogenesis as we understand it today, from the reduction of carbon, to...
Last week brought news of an exciting new development in astronomy. Astrophysicists serendipitously discovered a planet one might find only in a science fiction...
Whether employed to tow a shipment of grain to Sherman’s planet or to stop a fleeing enemy ship in the middle of space combat,...
In the last installment of Science Fiction or Science Fact, it was reasoned that the photon torpedo is a technological possibility. It may be...