There’s a pervasive idea in science fiction that the stars themselves could power our adventures among the stars. In Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Count Dooku flies away on a Solar Sailer, while ...

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas, on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, March 5-June ...

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 ...

If cinema is an invitation to escape the real world, there's no better place to go to then the stars. However, while there are plenty of movies about space travel circling the cosmos, which ones are ...

Space elevators? Nuclear rockets? The future of space travel could look radically different. Imagine taking an elevator to space. Or blasting off in a nuclear rocket. That might sound like science ...

Imagine taking an elevator to space. Or blasting off in a nuclear rocket. That might sound like science fiction, but scientists are racing to develop new, more efficient methods of space travel - and ...