In a remarkable case of science fiction reflected in reality ... star is blasting away pieces of the planet's atmosphere bit by bit. Brandon is the space/physics editor at Live Science.

Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to ...

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

Debbie Senesky: Venus is often called Earth's sister planet, but I would like ... in a microgravity environment. In space manufacturing is not science fiction. Access to space is becoming more ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to map the atmosphere of WASP-121b - also known as Tylos - in 3D and what they found sounds like something out of science fiction. The planet is 900 ...

This fanciful yet scientifically guided tale describes a visit to the Moon, and is considered by many the first work of ...

on our troubled planet or in the farthest reaches of space. Science fiction, as Ursula K. Le Guin once wrote, is not predictive but descriptive, and what contemporary science-fiction authors are ...