Scientists recently announced they had found potential signs of life on a planet 124 light years from Earth. While the bold claim has been challenged, the mere prospect is enough to inflame a ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

SCIENCE-FICTION is a form of prophecy. Normally, there is ;t lag of five to as much as one hundred vears between the discovery of a fact in the laboratory and the application of that fact in ...

While the deluge has become a nuisance, the stories are easy to spot. The writing is “bad in spectacular ways,” one editor said. By Michael Levenson It could be a tale from science fiction itself: a ...