In this episode of Space Minds, Senior Staff Writer Jeff Foust moderates a panel at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, the next installment of the Center’s Discovery Series. The panel ...

Plausible science fiction occupies a space between imagination and inquiry. It does not promise answers so much as ...

The universe is a place of unimaginable beauty and wonder—shimmering galaxies that dance across the cosmic stage, nebulae ...

An artistic rendering showing the concept of collecting solar energy in space and beaming converted RF energy to a terrestrial rectenna. Credit: Northrop Grumman In the 1940s, science fiction author ...

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The latest in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series is out this month, along with a speculative retelling of Moby-Dick and a forgotten classic from 1936 ...

Some sci-fi movies take the genre extra seriously, using accurate technologies to ground their depiction of the future.

Every month, I trawl through publishers’ catalogues so I can tell you about the new science fiction being released. And every month, I’m disappointed to see so much more fantasy on publishers’ lists ...

Apple TV's best sci-fi series, For All Mankind, rewrites American history with an ongoing space race, reshaping technology, ...

When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced a pivot from Mars to the moon, one detail of his plan caused eyebrows to raise. Musk ...

Marrying D&D and science fiction (or, in this case, space opera) is never an easy task. Rather than simply dropping the base D&D classes and rules into a space setting, Neon Odyssey aims for a full ...