Since the beginning of cinema, audiences have gone to the movie theater to escape reality. Science fiction films explore 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 ...

Elon Musk’s latest merger shows that the vision of space-based computing is no longer just science fiction. With advanced ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. As the recent Worldcon 2025 Convention here in Seattle ...

From the neon-soaked streets of a cyberpunk future to the silent, suffocating vacuum of deep space, these are the blueprints that redefined our visual and cultural vocabulary. As we celebrate National ...

Person of Interest offered more than entertainment—it foreshadowed today’s AI dilemmas of surveillance, control, and human judgment in an age of intelligent machines. “If you want to make something ...

In 1945, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke proposed something ridiculous: satellites orbiting Earth at exactly the right altitude to stay fixed above one spot, beaming radio signals across ...

So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...