John Carpenter’s horror classic is not about what you think it’s about. By Tracy Moore.

Harvard researchers raise the possibility that it may be "a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization."

Ezra Glinter surveys the work of Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem.

The “Star Trek” universe continues to grow at CBS All Access. The streamer has given out an order for two seasons of a half-hour animated comedy series called “Star Trek: Lower De…

Once again, technology is extending what the human body can do. There's plenty of engineering involved, optimized for business uses of physical augmentation: power boosts, kinetic energy storage, and "augmented joints" that can lock on demand and distribute static loads while the worker is in an awkward position. It’s business transformation with real transformers. @Enterprisenxt

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W. Scott Poole on the abyss opened up by the Great War.

What might make life hard to recognize as life? By Caleb A. Scharf.

Last Turkey Day, Netflix gave fans of bad movies and wisecracking robots something to be thankful for, renewing Mystery Science Theater 3000 for a 12th season. It was a fitting choice, extending the show’s Kickstarted revival on a date that’s long been synonymous with MST3K marathons and premieres.

Mars P.D. will have to deal with new blood-spatter patterns, different body decay rates, and space-suit sabotage—and they won’t be able to fire guns indoors. By Geoff Manaugh.

Edward L. Cahn

The making of Threads, the nuclear war film that shocked a generation. By Jude Rogers.

Fantasies about new power sources for human ambitions go back a century or more. Could these past visions energise our own future? By Iwan Rhys Morus.

Mary Shelley's misunderstood masterpiece turns 200. By Ronald Bailey.

I’m not a touchy-feely person. On the Myers-Briggs personality scale, I “think” rather than “feel.” (ENTP, babies.) But watching the video for The Guild’s "I’m the One That’s Cool" put a lump in my throat and made me sniffle with what-the-hell-are-these-human-feelings emotion.

“But it is my firm conviction that the ‘Hell of England’ will cease to be that of ‘not making money;’ that we shall get a nobler Hell and a nobler Heaven!” — Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present. By Zero HP Lovecraft.

When the universalization of “Star Wars” is complete, it will no longer be a story but an aesthetic.

"I carried an axe and Wallace Jr. brought his .22, not because he wanted to kill a bear but because a boy likes to carry some kind of a gun." By Terry Bisson.

John Frankenheimer

Foundation, from Skydance Television, David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman, chronicles the thousand year saga of The Foundation, a band of exiles who discover that the only way to save the Galactic Empire from destruction is to defy it.

At more than 60 years into the Space Age, fictional spaceships appear on our screens at a far greater frequency than the real things launch in real life. But that doesn't mean they'll actually fly. When it comes to imagining interstellar travel, the history of spaceflight up until now hasn't given science-fiction designers a whole lot to work with. All we've seen are basic rockets (useful for escaping Earth's gravity well), plane-like space shuttles (useful for re-entering it), Moon modules (the lunar lander), and modular orbital tubes (the International Space Station).

Newfound exoplanet orbits a star identified with the famed science officer from "Star Trek."

In this febrile cultural moment filled with fear of the Other, horror has achieved the status of true art. By M M Owen.

Microsoft is to fund a remake of cult BBC sci-fi series Blake's 7 for broadcast on its Xbox Live service, according to reports.

Tests could reveal whether we are part of a giant computer simulation — but the real question is if we want to know...

A short science fiction story of a man who searches for his lost wife.

Just for the sake of argument, let’s assume time travel is theoretically possible. Even so, the fact that we aren’t aware of any time travelers isn’t particularly surprising. Making a big change far in the past, one that would conclusively announce to the world that time travel is real, could potentially change history such that the time traveler would never be born in the first place.

The Doctor has tackled horror staples like vampires, werewolves, zombies, and demons, but also hundreds of original foes from all over the galaxy. We now present the scariest of the bunch!

Last month, the American Astronomical Society's 223rd meeting featured the announcement of a few breakthroughs: Using the Kepler space observatory, researchers had discovered a planet roughly the...

Cinematic saga captured in needle and thread in painstaking detail down to an impressive little embroidery Yoda

War, fate, and a broken walkman transcend space and time in this sci-fi love story. A Collaboration Factory Production. Produced by Chris Bryant. Written & directed by Jesse Atlas

A messenger delivers a mysterious box to a wealthy man. The Gift is a Sci-Fi short with a savage chase sequence on it. Directed by Carl E. Rinsch.

One of the best films of 2013, Spike Jonze’s Her, concerns a man who falls in love with his computer’s operating system. It’s easy to imagine a film with a similar premise appearing in a different decade—extremely easy, actually—but it’s hard to imagine it taking the form it does in Her. Even factoring out Jonze’s unique imagination, and factoring in thoughtful exception

Soon every home will have a robot helper. Don't worry. It's perfectly safe. Written, Directed & Edited by Ruairi Robinson. Starring Max Records from "Where The Wild Things Are". Cinematography by Macgregor. Music by Olafur Arnalds courtesy of Erased Tapes. Visual effects were completed over a period of 9 months, of hell. There's a reason why you don't see too many wet CG characters in movies even with 100 million dollar budgets. It's really, really hard.