Have you ever just hung out with your friends, talking about whether warp drive was really possible and the Starship Enterprise could actually travel faster than light? Or got into a debate about would actually happen to a living thing if you tried to teleport it from one place to another using a transporter beam… View Article
The geek out at San Diego Comic-Con continues when Neil deGrasse Tyson, Baba Booey and Bad Astronomer Phil Plait turn from gadgets that exist to gadgets we dream about.
Join us from San Diego Comic-Con 2012 for a gadget geek-out when Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews Baba Booey, Nerdist Chris Hardwick, and the Bad Astronomer, Phil Plait.
Revisit some highlights of our Season 2 shows. This show includes interview excerpts with Whoopi Goldberg, John Hodgman, Nichelle Nichols, Phil Plait, and Morgan Freeman.
Neil, comedian co-host Leighann Lord, and Phil Plait, the “Bad Astronomer,” discuss The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of science in the movies.
This guest blog post is by Alex Hanson, StarTalk’s STEAM intern. She is a junior at NYU and founder/editor of HERpothesis, which showcases work by creative young women inspired by STEAM. As part of my internship here at StarTalk, I get to go through older episodes and create timelines for our recent website relaunching. I’m… View Article
Want to end the year on a celestial high note? Get outside with your binoculars or telescope around 11pm local time and look due south for the latest Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2), a bright green comet that had a magnitude of 5.0 as of last night and is still growing in brightness. (By local time,… View Article
In the past few weeks, we’ve seen the best laid plans of Orbital Sciences and SpaceX altered by unforeseen circumstances. Back in December, Orbital Science’s first cargo run to the ISS was postponed until astronauts could fix the station’s malfunctioning cooling system. The flight of the Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft was rescheduled until… View Article
Last Friday, February 15th, 2013, as much of the world prepared to breathe a sigh of relief as asteroid 2012 DA14 flew past Earth at a distance 5,000 miles closer than our orbiting communications satellites, there were many people who were afraid that somehow all our calculations were somehow wrong, and that the asteroid would… View Article
When I heard that this Sunday’s episode was going to be Neil deGrasse Tyson hanging out with Baba Booey, The Nerdist and The Bad Astronomer at San Diego Comic-Con, I expected a non-stop fan boy geek-out. After all, Chris Hardwick loves him some comics, and with Neil’s recent appearance in Superman helping the Man of… View Article
