NASA’s 2024 moon target looks optimistic
It’s looking less likely that NASA is going to put astronauts on the moon by 2024.
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Patrick Stewart is not just in Star Trek,...
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Bovril’s weird connection to science fiction
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Broligarchs love Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, even...
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AI could change how we watch foreign movies,...
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How much of Martha Wells is in Murderbot?
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May the fourth Star Wars trilogy be with...
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Famed SF&F artist Greg Hildebrandt dead at 85
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How many of this century’s most iconic books...
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Camp Zero is a debut novel that brilliantly...
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This director doesn’t like having his movies mocked
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The Dune typeface must flow
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Looking back at Space Cadets
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Maybe interstellar travel is possible after all
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Jettison is a short sci-fi film that imagines...
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Listing the most expensive science fiction movie flops...
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How many books did you write during the...
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There was a Time Traveler’s Wife TV show?
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Hasbro promising personalized action figures
Space and Science
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Pretend you live on Mars and make money
How much would they have to pay you to isolate yourself in a simulated Mars habitat for a year? How different can it be from...
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Maybe aliens are using starlight to communicate
What if the universe is a giant alien chatroom, and we just can’t understand it? One physicist has proposed a wacky theory that sounds likes...
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The Galileo Project will search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Harvard’s controversial astronomer Avi Loeb is leading a new initiative, dubbed the Galileo Project, to check the sky for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. He’s the...
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Fly by Ganymede and Jupiter with this eye-popping NASA video
Buckle up! Ride with the spacecraft Juno as it flies by Ganymede and Jupiter. Those aren’t special effects. It’s actual footage of a flyby over...
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Are religious belief and extraterrestrial life compatible?
How will the world’s religions handle the discovery of alien life?
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Everything you learned from sci-fi about space travel is wrong
This 12-minute NPR radio show explains what science fiction gets wrong about space travel. It turns out that they get a lot of it wrong,...
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Life could exist in the clouds of Jupiter
If life can’t exist in the clouds of Venus, why not Jupiter?
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Aliens wouldn’t need warp drives to take over an entire galaxy
According to this simulation, aliens wouldn’t need much time to colonize an entire galaxy. If that’s so, then how come the Milky Way hasn’t been...
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Astronomers identify 29 habitable planets that know we’re here
Astronomers identify 29 habitable planets that are positioned to see Earth transit and intercept human broadcasts.