Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined ...

A week before Christmas, I spent a happy afternoon at the 79th World Science Fiction Convention, known as DisCon III. Even though sf — I prefer the classic acronym over the now commonly heard bu ...

Self-driving cars, extreme life extension, and global wifi provided by weather balloons: Google makes projects that sound like science fiction into reality at its secretive research lab ...