Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

If you're looking for quality science fiction series, Prime Video has you more than covered with these 12 shows. Here's why you should check them out.

They're not part of a vast, Marvel-style universe, and neither is a classic. So why are the "Avatar" movies so successful?

I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re frozen solid. But as they near our star on ...

‘Predator: Badlands’ contains several references to the ‘Alien’ franchise, but how deep does the connection go, and what does it mean for future sewu Alien and Predator aren’t nearly as intertwined as ...

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...

One of the coolest parts of Predator: Badlands is how deeply it connects to the Alien universe. Although the AvP movies did this already, neither of those is considered canon to either the Alien or ...

The breakout star of Alien: Earth on FX was not actually the Xenomorph, or even any of the synthetics or hybrids. And as cool as he was, it was not even the cyborg Mr. Morrow. No, it was the tentacled ...