New novels by Peter F. Hamilton, Lavanya Lakshminarayan and Maurice Broaddus bring us to the stars and beyond.

We asked New Scientist writers to pick their favourite sci-fi short story. From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E.

it typically deals with advanced scientific and technological concepts such as space exploration and time travel as well as ...

by raggio5 via Pixabay Have you ever dreamed of traveling through time, like characters do in science fiction ... time travel. One concept involves wormholes, or hypothetical tunnels in space ...

Science fiction franchises like Star Trek are unlikely ... the idea of solar sails are coded as ancient, outdated space travel. But, if humanity is really going to have a future among the stars ...

Doubly unfortunate for those among us eager to visit galaxies far, far away–even moving at near lightspeed isn’t in the cards. “It’s neither possible nor survivable to travel near the speed of light ...

The asteroid sample, coded A0180, was collected by the Japanese Space Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 probe in 2018. This mission ...