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(Originally written Jan. 2021.) (2018) Dir. Julius Onah Rated: PG-13 The Cloverfield Paradox is set in a dystopian world struggling with...

Where have I been? I've been at the Summer Science Program for the last month and a half, tracking asteroids and hanging out with an...

Starting with this article, I will be publishing my from my other blog (The Film Brewery). Most of them were written in 2020-2021, but I...

Everything Everywhere All at Once recently swept the Oscars, with an astounding total of seven wins in categories from Best Picture to...

Let's close out the year by ranking the standalone sci-fi books I read this year! 6. Salvation Wow, this was one beast of a novel....

Antique sci-fi tales that still spark the flame of new generations. Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott Flatland may not be the oldest work...

Armageddon told us to nuke it. NASA told us to hit it with a spacecraft in the DART mission. Which option is better? (Hint: Not the one...

Exploration sci-fi stories for the adventurous astronomer. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky Children of Time was the first book I...

What might we learn from communicating with an extraterrestrial civilization completely unlike our own--physically, culturally, and...

Hey there, this is Taizo, and welcome back to Astrocenter. Today we’re taking a look at Passengers, a 2016 film starring Chris Pratt and...

This is a tribute to the film Don’t Look Up (2021) and a collaboration between Midnight Eclipse and Astrocenter. There will be spoilers...

What place do genetic engineering and cloning hold in a future where humanity expands into the cosmos? Introduction Old Man’s War by John...

Hot air balloons. All they're now used for are touristy trips and weather forecasts, long replaced by helicopters and airplanes. But they...

Human bodies are built for Earth's gravity. But what happens if an earthborn human goes up into space—or, a spaceborn human returns to...