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 ...

Two different ways to tell the same story.

The science fiction blockbuster wowed audiences with its depiction of space travel and more. Here's what NASA staff and other ...

A hundred years ago, the scientific consensus asserted that space travel wasn’t just difficult — it was physically impossible ...

In 1968, a film arrived unlike anything audiences had seen. Directed by Stanley Kubrick and written with science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey combined scientific rigor with ...

Emily H. Wilson is wild for this sci-fi novel: I’ve not heard our sci-fi columnist recommend a book so wholeheartedly in all the time she’s written for us. It follows Mawukana na-Vdnaze, a deep-space ...

Experts say it will take decades to make Elon Musk’s cosmic vision real.

A collection of stories set in George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards universe and a novel from The Expanse author James S. A. Corey are among the science-fiction books we’re looking forward to this month ...

Focus on grand ideas is fine, but there’s a long way to get these ideas into orbit - even with Jeff or Elon’s resources You may have noticed a flurry of articles in the last few weeks which all ran ...

According to Roger Ebert, the worst science fiction movies threw away deep themes, replacing human stories with cheap thrills ...

The 2010s were truly glorious for the science fiction genre, producing at least one masterpiece per year, from Inception in ...

One of the most influential sci-fi shows ever made helped shape modern television years before prestige TV took over.