“Deep Space Homer” is about as classic as The Simpsons episodes come. The Season 5 episode launches Homer into space as part of a special NASA program made to help boost ratings, and Homer fails his ...

The great thrill of reading science fiction is encountering wild new ideas — or challenging new spins on familiar ones. Plenty of sci-fi books use robots and spaceships merely as a backdrop for a fun ...

When it comes to its original programming, Netflix excels with its genre shows, including and especially science fiction. Bolstering its original shows, Netflix always has a robust library of licensed ...

Millions of words. Thousands of authors. The Morning Star of Lingao is barely known outside China—but it contains the secret to the country’s modernization and malaise. Ma Qianzhu was unsatisfied with ...

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 ...