On March 17, astrophysicists announced they had discovered evidence of gravity waves left over from the time of the supposed big bang, which was believed in the scientific community to be confirmation of the big bang theory's cosmic inflation.
On Monday, astronomer John M. Kovac and his team announced they had detected ripples, or gravitational waves, in the fabric of space-time, an accomplishment that further supports the idea of a universe being stretched apart when it was only about a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second old - 10 to the minus 35 seconds.
When "Family Guy" creator and funny-man Seth MacFarlane announced that he along with famed astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson were working on bringing back the revolutionary 1980s PBS series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" it certainly raised some eyebrows.
Alfonso Cuarón's new film, Gravity, which stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, broke box office records this weekend, but not everyone is giving the film positive reviews.