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 ...

From Project Hail Mary to For All Mankind, reaching for the stars on our screens has never felt more urgent — or more realistic.

Science fiction and space stuff aren't that far removed from everyday things. Sounds odd? Eric Geusz, also known as Spacegooose on his social media and art platforms, proves it by using regular items ...

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The great thrill of reading science fiction is encountering wild new ideas — or challenging new spins on familiar ones. Plenty of sci-fi books use robots and spaceships merely as a backdrop for a fun ...

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

Isaac Asimov is, in many ways, the father of modern science fiction. He popularized concepts like "the robot" and even gifted us the Three Laws of Robotics. Asimov's own works have also been adapted ...

Claire North is a successful and prolific novelist, writing under three separate names, but this is their first shift into classic science fiction, i.e. a novel with spaceships in it. I loved the ...

Here's a far-out selection of cheesy-good science fiction fare from the early days of television. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The author of the Red Rising series recommends books cloaked in myth that use fantastic adventures to explore what it means to be human. By Pierce Brown Pierce Brown is the number-one New York Times ...

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 ...