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The American military’s youngest branch, Space Force, has had a bumpy start. It was quickly parodied with a sitcom from the team behind The Office. It has unveiled an official song, but has also had ...

“Critical Mass” traces the construction of a huge space station just beyond the moon. (Illustration for Dutton / Penguin Random House) If Jeff Bezos needs a blueprint for building a space station ...

Eric Choi's "Just Like Being There" is available for sale now. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Eric Choi is a long-running ...

As human access to space expands, the influx of new actors promises to forever alter the dynamics of space. The head-to-head U.S.–Soviet rivalry that once dominated the Space Race will evolve into ...

So many of our favorite space-based stories take place a long way from home. Even The Martian, which is among the most realistic science fiction stories in recent memory, takes place all the way on ...

In science fiction stories about contact with extraterrestrial civilisations, there is a problem: What kind of propulsion system could make it possible to bridge the enormous distances between the ...

When Mary Robinette Kowal asked me to help write a fictional space news story for her latest novel, I was happy to pitch in. It turns out painting Tom Sawyer’s picket fence is pretty fun. By John ...

As the name suggests, science-fiction movies are just that – fiction. Unfortunately, that sometimes means the science is too. Rhett Allain examines some concepts that sci-fi movies regularly get wrong ...

Want to know who's considered the world's first sci-fi author? Or exactly how did American science fiction begin? Perhaps what sci-fi novel is the all-time best-seller? A new book, "The History of ...

A Death Star is born. As if regular old star-gobbling black holes weren’t terrifying enough, scientists discovered that certain types swivel around and shoot beams at various objects in the cosmos, ...