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

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spaceships are one of the best things about science fiction. When they’re done right, they become cultural icons, like the USS ...

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 ...

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 ...