“Critical Mass” traces the construction of a huge space station just beyond the moon. (Illustration for Dutton / Penguin Random House) If Jeff Bezos needs a blueprint for building a space station ...

The American military’s youngest branch, Space Force, has had a bumpy start. It was quickly parodied with a sitcom from the team behind The Office. It has unveiled an official song, but has also had ...

How does the Endurance from 'Interstellar' compare with these other fictional spacecraft? By Graeme McMillan Interstellar Art - H 2014 But where does the Endurance’s ability to travel through ...

Spacecraft have some of the coolest names in the galaxy — from sleek probes and rovers to star-hopping vessels in sci-fi blockbusters. Some names are etched into history — like Voyager, which is still ...

As human access to space expands, the influx of new actors promises to forever alter the dynamics of space. The head-to-head U.S.–Soviet rivalry that once dominated the Space Race will evolve into ...

As the name suggests, science-fiction movies are just that – fiction. Unfortunately, that sometimes means the science is too. Rhett Allain examines some concepts that sci-fi movies regularly get wrong ...

In science fiction stories about contact with extraterrestrial civilisations, there is a problem: What kind of propulsion system could make it possible to bridge the enormous distances between the ...

Humans have been dreaming of traveling through outer space for generations. This has even been a goal before we truly understood just how large the universe is. While there have been an endless number ...