The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary has positioned itself as a serious science fiction effort, one that consulted real space scientists and drew from actual astrophysics research. But ...

Game Theory puts the reality-breaking science of the game Active Matter to the test, exploring how close humanity actually is to achieving feats like warping space, manipulating gravity, and ...

The orbits of a trio of stars can be so chaotic that it’s impossible to precisely calculate the stars’ future trajectories. That’s the real science behind the name of the hit Netflix show, 3 Body ...

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In Season 1 of Dark Matter, college physics professor Jason Dessen encounters a surprising nemesis: himself. Apple’s sci-fi series sees Dessen kidnapped and sent to an alternate reality, one where ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

In 1999, the Wachowskis released the first movie in an epic sci-fi trilogy: The Matrix. Our world — if it’s really our world —has never been the same since. The Matrix keenly foresaw the debates ...

There’s a new science fiction film in theaters that is largely based on science fact. "Project Hail Mary," from directing duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, is adapted from the novel of the same ...