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So when did we figure out that Pluto is actually pretty minuscule? What you do is, you look at the sky chart of stars and find the day when Pluto moves to intersect the light of a star. You set up observers across the earth, and you each get a...
BSG began with a straightforward sci-fi premise: a space-chase saga but an uncommonly spartan, raw, unflashy one. There are no cute droids ŕ la Star Wars or sexy aliens ŕ la Star Trek. Its universe is dirty, lived in and worn out. The ships are cramped. The humans...
In 1951 a flying saucer plopped down on Washington's Mall. It carried two passengers, an alien called Klaatu (Michael Rennie), who had obviously visited us before, there being no other explanation for his perfect Oxonian accent, and a robot named Gort, who was played by a giant whose day...
Epsilon Eridani holds a particular hope in the search for extraterrestrial life. Deemed one of the “Fabulous Four” by the Spitzer telescope team, Epsilon Eridani is one of four stars that have debris disks—a sign that planets may have formed. The star...
Follow-up research will include the launch of Project Kepler, a first-of-its-kind NASA spacecraft mission that will look for Earth-sized planets located at similar distances from their respective stars—planets that might be friendly to life.