Picture a spacecraft returning to Earth after a long journey. The vehicle slams into the planet's atmosphere at roughly ...

In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our hero wakes from years of space travel to a terrifying new reality ...

There are five potential launch dates available in March for Artemis 2, which will lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center ...

Our universe does host life, but another one might be even better suited for life. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers are studying how hospitable our universe is to ...

SpaceX, the rocket and satellite maker led by Elon Musk, said on Monday it had acquired xAI, the artificial intelligence ...

Traditionally, spacecraft communications to and from Earth use radio signals, which travel at the speed of light. That means ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and ...

"Star Trek" set the tone for generations of science fiction media to boldly go their own way. These five rotten films failed ...

A thick shell "implies a longer route that oxygen and nutrients would have to travel to connect Europa’s surface with its ...

NASA's new list of accurate sci-fi films might shock you. Some are decades old—but still more realistic than modern blockbusters.

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