Elon Musk addressed a crowd at a Texas SpaceX facility, telling listeners about the "purpose of SpaceX." That purpose, it turns out, is to "make 'Star Trek' real." "We want to make Starfleet Academy ...

Isaac Asimov is one of the 'Big Three' science fiction writers, so his words on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey are ...

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 ...

Although science fiction is not real, several shows base their ideas on what we know about science relating to space and time ...

A brilliantly produced and ferociously acted time-and-space obsessed drama that has plenty on its mind, but has trouble communicating it.

The author of the Red Rising series recommends books cloaked in myth that use fantastic adventures to explore what it means to be human. By Pierce Brown Pierce Brown is the number-one New York Times ...

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 ...

Science fiction is everywhere in our 21st century culture, from superheroes to spaceships. But there was a time it was an odd subculture. But those in what was an eccentric circle of literary pioneers ...

Claire North is a successful and prolific novelist, writing under three separate names, but this is their first shift into classic science fiction, i.e. a novel with spaceships in it. I loved the ...