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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...

Sending radio messages to extraterrestrial civilizations, broadcasting our presence in the universe, hoping to hear back. It sounds like...

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....

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...

How can we approach numbers on an incomprehensible scale like the number of civilizations in our galaxy? The Drake Equation, devised by...

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...

SETI/First Contact stories for the curious mind. Little green men have always tickled the curious minds of astronomy lovers. Every one of...

Tales behind the movies for the sci-fi geek. The advancement of science and science fiction have always fueled each other since the dawn...