Ask most people who Dr. FunkySpoon is and you’ll be met with blank stares. But if you listen to StarTalk Radio, you’re probably as big a fan of David Grinspoon as we are. We first got to know Dr. Grinspoon during one of our most popular StarTalk Live! shows ever back in September of 2012…. View Article
From the largest worldwide celebration of astronomy, to a close-up of Mars, a lunar eclipse, and the Lyrid Meteor Shower, if the weather cooperates, this month could be a great month for getting outside and celebrating the cosmos. Global Astronomy Month To start with, it’s Global Astronomy Month, the worldwide celebration of astronomy sponsored by… View Article
In between discoveries of new dwarf planets in the Oort Cloud and primordial gravitational waves and black holes and postponed rocket launches, you might have missed a bit of news: there’s an Ebola outbreak spreading across west Africa. At one point, there was even a fear that it had spread to Canada, where a… View Article
“So, anything interesting happen today?” “Well, they announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet, 2012 VP113, that’s further away from the Sun than Pluto.” “Wow. That must be the most exciting day for you space nuts in quite a while.” “Not really. Last week they announced they discovered evidence of “primordial gravitational waves” that… View Article
Red pill or blue pill? You get both when Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews Morpheus himself, actor Laurence Fishburne, about his roles in The Matrix films, CSI, Searching for Bobby Fischer and more.
What does it take to get Neil deGrasse Tyson to go all fan-boy geek? Not much. Just ship him off to Santa Fe to shoot COSMOS and then tell him Laurence Fishburne is in town filming a new indie sci-fi flick, The Signal. You see, Neil is a total Matrix fan boy. Like, a “memorize… View Article
Science is hot again. It’s more than hot… it’s popular. On Monday, astronomers announced that they have discovered evidence of “primordial gravitational waves” that support the theory of an inflationary big bang at the dawn of our Universe. Of course, if you tried to watch the live streaming announcement from Harvard, you most likely couldn’t… View Article
Stay Tuned for… Science! Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Eugene Mirman answer more of your questions about science in Star Trek, Star Wars, Sliders, Superman, Contact, Mary Poppins and more.
Judging from the amount of questions you submit to us on the depiction of science in the movies and on TV, on top of all the questions we get about science fiction, it’s clearly a favorite topic of yours. And we’re not just talking about the questions we ask you to submit when we know… View Article
Confession: I didn’t watch COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey on Sunday night when millions of people around the world did. That’s because I promised my 9-year-old daughter that we would watch it together as a family, and we didn’t get that opportunity until Tuesday night. You see, my daughter is a big fan of Neil’s,… View Article
Join guest host Bill Nye the Science Guy, Eugene Mirman and NASA astronaut Mike Massimino as they have a blast answering your questions while Neil’s off working on COSMOS.
Have you ever heard the phrase, “When the cat’s away, the mice will play?” Well, our host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, is certainly one cool cat. I’m not sure Bill Nye the Science Guy, Eugene Mirman and NASA astronaut Mike Massimino qualify as mice, but while Neil’s was working on the new COSMOS series on FOX,… View Article
