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 ...

Every once in a while, a science-fiction movie comes along that reminds you why the genre can be so much fun. Not just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re traveling through space, you’ll need a ship. For now, the only ships we’re actually capable of making are slow chunky ...

The lasers alone would cost around one trillion dollars and the technology to create a nanocraft does not yet exist.

Davos panelists explored turning sci-fi space ideas real, emphasizing radiation, gravity, autonomy, and in-space assembly.

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 ...

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 exploration. In periods when public attention turns toward unanswered questions about ...

Back in 2021, Hannah’s love of all things nerdy collided with her passion for writing — and she hasn’t stopped since. She covers pop culture news, writes reviews, and conducts interviews on just about ...

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