This approach was unusual for sci-fi films at the time, but it's what makes The Thing stand out. The alien creature in The ...

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just finding distant worlds, they are cataloguing places with molten surfaces, ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

The draw to science fiction is that the genre is wide-spanning. In one film, you could be watching your favorite superhero saving the day, and in the next, you're preparing for a life after an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The plot of Predator: ...

Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for Steven Spielberg‘s next film, “Disclosure Day.” The movie stars Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell ...

We open with a row of black smokestacks belching fire. The sky is almost totally black, and one has the impression that the city, which is far down below and has lights like stars stuck in tar, hasn’t ...

Throwing well-known stories into genres they didn't initially start out in can be a gamble. Thankfully, for the director and writer Peter Hyams and for Sean Connery as his lead, it paid off in 1981.

So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...

In this episode of Space Minds, Senior Staff Writer Jeff Foust moderates a panel at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, the next installment of the Center’s Discovery Series. The panel ...