Category: NEWS
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Morning Frosts Fill Martian Volcanoes with 150,000 Tons of Water Ice
[ad_1] The crew of SYFY’s The Ark (Season 2 debuts July 17!) is headed for another world, a little planet around the nearby star Proxima centauri. When (if) they get there, they’ll have only what they’ve brought with them, and whatever they can scrape together in their new environment. Here in the real world, astronauts are…
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Are Giant Arctic Viruses Combatting Climate Change?
[ad_1] In John Carpenter’s 1982 horror classic The Thing, researchers at an Antarctic science station stumble upon a shapeshifting alien entity, resurrected after being frozen in the polar ice. Since the film’s release, scientists have uncovered strikingly similar events happening in the real world, only at a smaller and less violent scale. As climate change…
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Why Alice Eve’s Carol Marcus Didn’t Return in Star Trek Beyond
[ad_1] Compared to its predecessor, 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness, 2016’s Star Trek Beyond (now available on the SYFY app) is a somewhat stripped down affair. It’s a straightforward planetary mission for the Enterprise crew, following their adventures as they find themselves stranded on a hostile world, facing down an unlikely and very dangerous enemy. That means the…
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The Ark Debuts Stellar Trailer for Season 2 of Hit SYFY Series
[ad_1] The just released official trailer for Season 2 of SYFY‘s The Ark (returning to the airwaves July 17) is a veritable rollercoaster of sci-fi emotions. After learning that their original destination was no longer a viable option for colonization, the members of the spaceship Ark One must seek out a new planet on which to…
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How to See Once-in-a-Lifetime Explosion of the Blaze Star
[ad_1] If you came of age during the ‘90s, there’s a decent chance that the 1996 Freaky Friday-style body swap movie Wish Upon a Star (streaming now on Peacock) had a chokehold on your psyche. It stars Katherine Heigl and Danielle Harris as Alexia and Haley Wheaton, two teenage sisters who couldn’t be more different…
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Iconic Props from E.T. & Back to the Future Sold at Auction
[ad_1] Some lucky Steven Spielberg fan is now able to ride through the streets of their neighborhood while pretending to rescue an adorable alien from the clutches of the government. We have no idea who that person is, but they loved E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial enough to recently drop an impressive $52,000 on one of the…
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Real-Life Story of LSD Dolphins Makes Cocaine Bear Look Tame
[ad_1] In 1985, drug smugglers flying a small airplane dumped 75 pounds of cocaine into the woods over Georgia. Those containers of dope were discovered by an unsuspecting black bear who had the first, biggest, and last party of its life. By the time authorities discovered the scene, all of the containers had been ripped…
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The 5 Best Anime Series on Peacock in June 2024
[ad_1] Are you anime curious? Has the great big world of serialized Japanese animation been tempting to jump into, but you’re just not sure where to start? If you have Peacock (and you definitely should), there are some excellent entry level anime series on the streaming service that can help you explore what the medium has…
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The Low-Budget Origin of Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium
[ad_1] After the massive success of his debut feature, 2009’s District 9, writer/director Neill Blomkamp set out to make another ambitious sci-fi film rich in social commentary and big ideas. The result was Elysium (now available on SYFY), a sci-fi action film starring Matt Damon as an ex-con racing against time to get aboard a massive space station…
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The Only Twilight Zone Episode with Its Own Sequel
[ad_1] There are many, many enduring episodes from the original run of The Twilight Zone. They’ve been parodied, referenced, given tributes, and sometimes even remade for new generations, whether we’re talking about “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” or “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” But in five seasons and more than 150 episodes, there’s only one Twilight…