Science fiction has always had a habit of creating content ahead of its time. Books, movies, and shows have long created ...

Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

Another SpaceX Starship exploded during testing Wednesday night in Texas. Starship 36 blew up on the stand at Starbase, sending flames into the sky and ...

SpaceX 's billionaire founder Elon Musk says that despite Starship setbacks, the space company hasn't taken its eyes off the ball — and that ball is big, red, and roughly 140 million miles away.

SpaceX’s Starship Flight 9 ended in failure — and it is not the company’s only one. Since its first launch in April 2023, SpaceX has seen a mix of failed and successful launches. While not ...

The machine that was touted as taking humans as far as Mars as soon as 2028 has yet to make an orbit of Earth. Musk 's near-term Mars plans look even more like science fiction.

Here we go again — the mood is not sunny in science fiction these days. The United States of the year 2073 is a nightmare of extremes in this feature from the director Asif Kapadia.

The 45-year-old founder of the firm will be witnessing the next chapter of a journey that began decades ago, in a childhood bedroom in Japan, where a boy obsessed with science fiction first ...

Columbia Taps Writer/Director Neill Blomkamp for New ‘Starship Troopers’ Film The filmmaker last helmed “Gran Turismo” for Sony Drew Taylor March 18, 2025 @ 9:39 AM TriStar/Disney ...

Science fiction franchises like Star Trek are unlikely to swap out warp drive for laser sail fleets of starships, but if they ever did, Johnson points out that the biggest problem with solar sails ...

Starships Super Heavy Booster is grappled at the launch pad in Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on October 13, 2024, during the Starship Flight 5 test. (Photo by SERGIO FLORES/AFP via Getty Images) ...

Musk announced via X. “Science fiction without the fiction part.” Company employees screamed in joy, jumping and pumping their fists into the air as the booster slowly lowered itself into the ...