In honor of National Moon Day on July 20, Omaha Public Library staff have suggested their favorite nonfiction and fiction ...

Of the three, only Tsiolkovsky actually wrote science fiction, which he used as a scratch pad for his revolutionary ideas. Living in near-poverty 100 miles southwest of Moscow, he also issued a ...

Artist Chesley Bonestell worked from rocket scientist Wernher von Braun's original designs to paint this view of a space station hovering above Central America, together with a resuable shuttle ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the red planet seemed to be ready to give up some of its mystery. Astronomers ...

Trends in the way that exoplanets are depicted in science fiction (sf) have changed since the first real exoplanet around a sun-like star was discovered in 1995, says a new study from researchers ...

From space odysseys to star wars, alien invaders to guardians of the galaxy — the best science films since the genre first took a trip to the moon.