Planetary offence is better than defense
Planetary defense is good, but would planetary offence be a better way to protect earth from giant asteroids that might collide with it?
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Does cyberpunk have a future?
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The man behind the Pentagon’s secretive UFO programme...
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Tolkien estate blocks JRR Token crypto-currency
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Sci-fi titles among Bill Gates’ books of the...
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Let’s convert orbiting space junk into rocket fuel
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Neal Stephenson talks about climate change
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Do these classic sci-fi films need to be...
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Yet another Philip K. Dick adaptation is on...
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Ranking Tom Hanks’ science fiction movies
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Are these actually the greatest sci-fi films (so...
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The ‘Foundation’ TV series strays from the source...
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Yes, there is such a thing as Quaker...
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Futurists are notoriously bad at predicting the future
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Sci-fi shows that were cancelled too soon
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Neal Stephenson latest book tackles climate change
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Dune’s sequel will be ready in 2023
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Sometimes the movie is better than the book
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An impressionist view of Star Wars
Space and Science
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A real astronaut offers some advice to Shatner
Real astronaut Chris Hadfield offers some advice to William Shatner before the Star Trek actor heads into space.
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Can rogue planets support life?
Does a planet need to be orbiting a star to support life? Not necessarily, say some scientists, which will no doubt have some science fiction...
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William Shatner is going boldly where others have gone before
William Shatner is going to space on one of Jeff Bezos’ rockets. Of course, fellow Star Trek actor James Doohan, famous for playing Scotty, has...
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A new startup aims to revive the woolly mammoth
In what sounds like a plot for a bad sci-fi novel, a new startup aims to revive the woolly mammoth in Canada’s Arctic.
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Is it time to take aliens more seriously?
There has been a lot of talk of how governments are still investigating UFOs. Is it time to take the possibility that they are truly...
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China has big plans for outer space
China has big plans for outer space that sound like science fiction tropes, including asteroid mining and building miles-wide ‘megastructures’ in orbit.
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Sun going supernova? Move Earth to Jupiter
A former NASA scientist’s has an an idea on how to save the planet Earth when the sun begins to run out of fuel, but...
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Where are the viruses in time travel stories?
>One thing that time travel stories frequently forget is the risk of importing viruses from the past or future.
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NASA’s 2024 moon target looks optimistic
It’s looking less likely that NASA is going to put astronauts on the moon by 2024.