In the latest episode of the Fiction Science podcast, Suarez points out that Princeton physicist Gerard K. O’Neill, Bezos’ space mentor, had the idea first.

SPACE.com counts down some of the best science fiction space stations in movie and television history. See the top seven here. ... Space Station V, "2001: A Space Odyssey" ...

In the world of "Star Trek," space travel is as easy as turning on the warp drive. NASA said the International Space Station (ISS) is helping humanity push farther out into the universe, and make ...

These sci-fi games feature deep, resonant narratives that take place against the dramatic backdrop that is the vast expanse of space.

British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with "Orbital," a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station that ponders the beauty and ...

With Space Travel, Fiction is More Exciting than Fact By Daniel L. Leonard Daniel L. Leonard ’21, a Crimson editorial editor, is a joint History of Science and Philosophy concentrator in ...

In 1968, a rotating wheel-shaped space station danced across the silver screen and changed science fiction forever. Space Station V in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey immediately became ...

The station was about camping in space, not living in space. In that respect it resembled the earlier Russian Mir Station, where crews were allowed a weekly vodka, cognac, and cigarette ration to ...

All right then, time to make those Mars boosters much, much bigger.. An orbital space station… like Deep Space 9. Ok, so maybe the Death Star is a little too big (at least for now).

Even the International Space Station is likely to become less of a cooperative venture, having previously been the ultimate symbol of multinational shared interests.

Power stations in space sounds like an idea from science fiction – and in fact it is an idea from science fiction: in 1941, Isaac Asimov’s story Reason described a space station that transmits ...