The prolific writer has returned with a sequel to his bestseller A Short History of Nearly Everything.

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Some time travel films really put the "fiction" in "science fiction." But according to a metaphysicist, one unexpected movie actually gets it quite right.

Ex Machina, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Upgrade, and more make up our list of the best sci-fi movies on Netflix in February 2026.

Frustrated, Bienvenu and De Givry invested all of their capital in the creation of a rough animated storyboard to serve as ...

A mysterious object has caused a long-lasting and extreme dimming of a distant star, but is this object a 'failed star' brown dwarf, or an exceptionally massive super-Jupiter exoplanet?

The Fountain, the "absolutely fantastic" science-fiction film starring Hugh Jackman, has landed a new streaming home in the ...

Narrated by the soothing voice of the Oscar-winning Morgan Freeman, this four-part natural history series is brought to us by Industrial Light & Magic, employing the finest in next-generation CGI ...

Science has advanced a good bit since The Andromeda Strain was first released in 1971, but the science in the Robert ...