In a manner of speaking, Albert Einstein just helped an international team of astronomers find a hot Jupiter that’s 2,000 light-years away. It’s the first time in history that the theory of relativity was used to locate another planet.Read more...    
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Star Trek director J.J. Abrams and the rest of his Enterprise crew and cast are setting up a live chat with astronaut Chris Cassidy aboard the International Space Station. Read more...    
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...though if you Niners in the UK know what show this is from, I'd like to seek it out! HA!Read more...    
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A partial solution to a centuries-old problem known as the twin prime conjecture now affirms the idea that an infinite number of prime numbers have companions — and that a maximum distance between these pairs does in fact exist.Read more...    
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In less than 48 hours, the Sun has unleashed a trio of X-Class solar flares. They are the first, second and third X-class eruptions of 2013, making them the most powerful of the year by a substantial margin. What's more, each burst has been more violent than the last. So uhh... what the hell is going on here?Read more...    
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Fox's new Sleepy Hollow series upgrades Ichabod Crane into a time-traveling Robert Langdon-type character who must save us all from the reincarnation of the Headless Horseman and make Starbucks jokes. Read more...    
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And when I say long-term, I mean most-of-the-coming-millennium kind of long-term. There is a church in Germany that will be performing one musical piece until the year 2640. What will it mean if there's an applause as the end?Read more...    
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This animated music video for MC Frontalot's "I'll Form the Head" tells the story of my favorite kind of anime robot. They're the ones created by color-coded ninja teams who snap their armor together to form one, giant robot — you know, for fighting a malevolent galactic nematode.Read more...    
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Things are looking up for Detroit's best-known fictional half-robot cop. He's got a new movie reboot coming out (which admittedly might not be any good); Boom! Studios just announced a new Robocop graphic novel from Frank Miller, titled Last Stand (which will likely be completely insane); and even if both of those suck, his statue is lookin' fine.Read more...    
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Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss – author of The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing, and producer of The Unbelievers – participated in one of reddit's Ask Me Anything chats last night. He fielded a slew of fantastic question in the process, offering his thoughts on what it's like to travel with Richard Dawkins, what the average person can do to make the most positive contribution to science literacy, and the best way to deal with pseudoscience.Read more...    
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Hmm, this plot sounds somewhat familiar: A physics technician from the University of Bristol has been sentenced to 18 months in jail after using equipment in the university's lab to prepare more than $15,000 worth of cocaine for sale on the city's streets. Read more...    
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Mark Ruffalo addresses the latest rumors of tense Avengers contract negotiations. Zoe Saldana talks Guardians of the Galaxy while John Cho previews Sulu's role in Star Trek Into Darkness. Jenna-Louise Coleman and Steven Moffat drop cryptic Doctor Who hints. Plus Robocop set videos and a new After Earth clip. Spoilers!Read more...    
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NASA launched the unmanned Skylab-1 into orbit by a Saturn V booster 40 years ago today, on May 14, 1973, from Kennedy Space Center. It was the United States's first foray into significant scientific research in microgravity.Read more...    
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We don't just miss Fringe because of its insane worldbuilding and over-the-top science fictional ideas — we also miss the characters and their quirky, intense relationships. And the good news? Almost Human, from Fringe's J.J. Abrams and J.H. Wyman, looks like it has that in spades.Read more...    
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Last night's Once Upon A Time finale would have made more sense if someone had written in a giant, lightning farting pegasus, who swooped in and shat out the "failsafe" gemstone. But instead, the series just invented a bunch of randomly convenient ways to fix its problems. On the plus side, we got to meet Peter Pan. Read more...    
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Our economy is huge, incomprehensible and potentially deadly if you take a wrong step — just like space, in fact. So when it comes to understanding the fundamentals of economics, you need to read some classic and recent science fiction novels. Luckily, Paul Krugman and Noah Smith have provided a reading list.Read more...    
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Who do you support in Continuum's battle for the future: the time-traveling terrorists Liber8, or the hegemonic corporations? You can back one side or the other, by watching web videos, responding to viral media, and tweeting one of two hashtags — and your vote will help shape what happens in the show's season finale. Read more...    
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Loosely based on Stanislaw Lem's The Futurological Congress, here's your first look at the wild and weird movie The Congress. Just watch for yourself. Read more...    
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An extended trailer for the four-movie Ghost in the Shell: ARISE anime series has arrived, and if Motoko's odd character design is still freaking you out, these familiar faces should put you at ease. Section 9's Batou, Togusa (who clearly has a lifetime commitment to his mullet) and the Chief make their appearances.Read more...    
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In celebration of Pixar's prequel Monster's University Epcot has transformed the famous Spaceship Earth ride into the giant monster Mike Wazowski. And animated it. It's pretty impressive. Read more...    
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The gas mask has a history that dates back thousands of years, though it wasn't until World War I that it became nightmare fodder for Doctor Who and countless other stories. Here is a sometimes terrifying history of the gas mask, from its beginnings through the present day. Read more...    
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Everything came together for Spanish photographer Isaac Gutiérrez Pascual when he snapped this glorious photo. With the Moon in its crescent phase, and Venus in perfect alignment to the right, a flock of birds took flight just as a storm began to break up. Read more...    
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Want your kids to get into Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey but not sure how to explain all that complicated space stuff? Don't worry — Howard Johnson's, circa 1968, has you covered. "Hey Molly, what do you want to be when YOU grow up? "I want to be a space stewardess!" Read more...    
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Games Workshop has been trying to own the term "Space Marine" — but would their Space Marines be able to pwn the Spartans from Halo? And Heinlein's Starship Troopers? What about the Colonial Marines from Aliens, or Doctor Who's deadly clergy? Which space army would defeat all the rest?Read more...    
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Did Cloud Atlas’ insane three-hour running time scare you off when the movie was in theaters? Well, now’s your chance to finally watch the scifi epic near the comfort of your own bathroom! Plus ponies, the Grim Reaper and zombie slayers gone wild, all in this week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases!Read more...    
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