Discover how the groundbreaking idea of a space elevator is moving from science fiction to reality as leading innovators in Japan and China invest in this futuristic technology. Learn about the ...

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 ...

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

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Project Hail Mary is the kind of ambitious science-fiction blockbuster that remembers something many movies in the genre forget: saving the world can be thrilling, emotional, and genuinely funny at ...

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

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

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 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 ...