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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Hard space sci-fi is where storytelling meets the raw edge of scientific reality. It’s not about bending the rules of physics—it’s about following them to their logical, sometimes terrifying, extremes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Arnie said, "Get your a* to Mars", but is it really a good idea? We asked the experts about our Martian future.

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

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 ...