NASA’s awesomely named deep-space observatory, the Kepler Planet Hunter, has been designed to scour space for planets less massive than Earth. The latest data, released on February 2, is an astronomer’s dream come true: the Planet Hunter has tagged 1,235 objects as possible planets. That’s three times as many planets
This weeks episode of the ESO podcast, we come to you once again from Titan Game and Comics in Duluth, GA. Where we will be going back to the Star Trek universe and this time talk about Star Trek the Next Generation, and while we are are the same theme
Some of us are waiting for the return of our beloved (and surviving) Torchwood characters with the intensity of a 5-year-old on Christmas Eve. Although we’ll have to keep waiting, these set photos should help pass the time until summer 2011. The name of the 10-episode season is Torchwood: Miracle
The ever-secretive Christopher Nolan has recruited another Inception veteran for this climactic chapter in his Bat-odyssey. But who could the fleet-footed Gordon-Levitt be playing? This is becoming an almost weekly game: “Who will the villains be? Who’s gonna get cast? This person got cast, but not as a villain we
Orson Scott Card’s military-sci-fi classic has been orbiting in Hollywood for what feels like eons, never coming in for a landing. But there’s a new team behind the wheel, led by Star Trek’s writer-producers: Can they succeed where so many others have failed? This new team consists of X-Men Origins:
Back in May, the news came out that the long-running Power Rangers franchise was making the leap from Disney to Nickelodeon after the entity was bought back by original owner Haim Saban of Saban Brands. Well, now the new reboot of the series is coming to delightful consumer fruition, with
Andrew Stanton, the director of Pixar’s WALL-E, Finding Nemo and A Bug’s Life, is getting out of the animation studio and working on his first live-action movie, the upcoming John Carter of Mars. And he’s taking his job seriously. Almost too seriously. When asked about the look of the movie,
After scaring fans the world over as a best-selling novel, a TV miniseries and most recently a Marvel comic, Stephen King’s epic tale of mankind’s ultimate battle between good and evil is finally going to be a movie. Warner Brothers and CBS Films are joining forces to adapt King’s novel,
Good news for Fringe viewers! Fringe has defeated the so-called Friday night 9 p.m. death slot … at least so far. For the second week in a row, the sci-fi series has come out on top in its timeslot in the ratings that count, 18-49 adults. Fringe earned a 1.9/6
Few composers have built as illustrious a resume as John Barry, dead at 77, who won four Oscars over the course of his 40-odd-year career. While he might’ve gotten accolades for scores like Dances With Wolves, Out of Africa and Body Heat, his work on such films as Black Hole,
British actor Henry Cavill is going up, up and away. This undated photo provided by Warner Bros. shows actor Henry Cavill. Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures announced Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011 that Cavill has won the coveted role of Superman, the iconic superhero. Cavill will star as Superman (and,
Who was the first captain of Star Trek’s U.S.S. Enterprise? And—was the Enterprise even the ship’s name? You can find out all this and more by reading creator Gene Roddenberry’s original pitch for his now-classic series. See what Blastr has found for us all to see
