Scientists are building a 'beyond state-of-the-art' digital model of near-Earth space to improve forecasting of solar storms and their effects on infrastructure.

For years, science fiction writers from Edgar Rice Burroughs to C. S. Lewis have imagined what it would be like for humans to walk on Mars. As mankind comes closer to taking its first steps on the ...

The universe is full of mind-bending, strange worlds that make Earth seem like a distant memory. In this video, we dive into 10 of the most bizarre and terrifying planets ever discovered by NASA and ...

Space weather impacts the ionosphere in this animation. NASA/GSFC/CIL/Krystofer Kim. And solar flares travel at the speed of light, says Jesse Woodroffe, who leads the space weather research ...

Space moguls and NASA scientists alike have credited science fiction for helping inspire space exploration. These works stand out the most.

Kathryn Schulz picks out her favorite ten weather events from novels, including scenes from the work of Charles Dickens, Emily Brontë, and Vladimir Nabokov.

Yet more than a decade after his death, it’s as an author of science-fiction that he is best remembered; and his best remembered fictional work of all is 2001: A Space Odyssey.The idea sprang ...

From 2001: A Space Odyssey to WALL-E, Erika Nesvold picks her favourite sci-fi films set in space (and explains why E.T. missed out) Based on the excellent (and more true-to-life) non-fiction book ...

While scientists, physicists and experts are asking these starbound questions about how we might survive in space, we also already have several fleshed out concepts, courtesy of a near-century of ...

The Language of the Night: Essays on writing, science fiction, and fantasy by Ursula K. Le Guin. There are few sci-fi and fantasy writers more brilliant (and revered) than Ursula K. Le Guin.