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

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

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.

John Frankenheimer

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).

Star Trek Continues

At some point, most science fiction readers come across the “Big Three” authors from its so-called Golden Age: Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke. Over the course of his lifetime, Clarke witnessed the birth of the space age, and helped push science fiction from a nascent literary movement into a modern vision for humanity’s future with grounded, realistic stories that drew on science and technology—themes that are more relevant than ever today, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Though Wells and Orwell were debating in the era of Nazism, many of their arguments reverberate today in contemporary debates over science and policy. By Richard Gunderman.

We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s. By Henry Farrell.

When cosplayers dress up as their favorite character, or even their interpretation of a favorite character, they're not just expressing their fandom. They're also carrying on a tradition that began with ... well, the first iterations of fan conventions.

It's been 20 years since director Alex Proyas unleashed his science fiction masterpiece, and we're celebrating this Dark City anniversary in style. Let's take a look at why this brilliant movie has stood the test of time.

Edward L. Cahn

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

A fascinating survey details the migration patterns of pop-culture obsessives.

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.

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Mike Judge

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.

After an outcry among fans following Syfy’s discontinuation of the series on its network, The Expanse will be getting a fourth season on Amazon Prime after an announcement from Jeff Bezos. Bezos revealed the news at the International Space Development Conference where members of the show’s ca…

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

It’s been just over 15 years since Firefly fans were introduced to Captain Mal and the crew of the Serenity, and almost as long since those same fans began desperately waiting for the show to come back from cancellation. That’s probably really unlikely at this point, but you can dream a little with this gorgeous tribute video.

"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.

'The Nevers,' which landed at the premium network amid competition from Netflix, will be written, directed, exec produced and showrun by the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' grad.

As corporations take control of nerd culture, science fiction’s most esoteric epic remains gloriously untamed. By Sean T. Collins.

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