Heliocentrism is the astronomical model which places a stationary Sun at the center of the Solar System while the Earth, planets and other bodies revolve around it. As early as the 3rd century BCE, Greek […]
India’s contribution to the science of astronomy stretches way back in time, with the earliest written mention of astronomy appearing in the Rigveda, believed to have been composed between 1700 and 1100 BCE making it […]
Astronomers using Chile’s array of radio telescopes known as ALMA, have observed tell-tale signs of stars forming closer to the black hole located 27,000 light-years away at our Galactic Centre, than ever seen before. Surrounding […]
Combining time travel with a beautiful romance, ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ was a magical tale about a man who does not experience time in the same way as the rest of us. Unwilling time traveler […]
Triangle’s intriguing plot begins with a group of friends on a yacht suddenly coming upon a huge ghostly, abandoned ocean liner. What follows is a superb, well-paced thriller complete with deeper psychological concerns as the […]
Stargazers across the northern hemisphere are currently gearing up to witness the oldest recorded meteor shower in history, known as the Lyrid meteor shower. Chinese observations of this annual shower dates back 2,700 years, and […]
The European Space Agency (ESA) has captured a rare astronomical event after its Integral space observatory witnessed either a small star or a big planet being consumed by a black hole located in galaxy NGC […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation ran for seven seasons (178 episodes) between 1987 and 1994 and was set in the 24th century onboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. The action takes place a century after the original […]
Star Trek: Voyager ran for seven seasons between 1995 and 2001 (172 episodes) and followed the adventures of the USS Voyager which finds itself transported 75-years away to the Delta Quadrant while pursuing a renegade […]
I remember watching a Twilight Zone episode called The Parallel (1963) in which an astronaut returns to Earth from space only to find the world he left behind is not quite the same as the […]
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