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Military action has provided fodder for science fiction since the birth of the genre. But just what is military…

Set in a climate-changed future, Ship Breaker is the first young adult novel from Windup Girl author Paolo…

Earlier today, President Obama spoke at the Kennedy Space Center, outlining the future of the US space program,…

Glen Cook's Shadowline (Night Shade) is a rich drama set against the backdrop of space, following three story lines…

Futuristic militaries are a staple in science fiction. With their powered armor and laser guns, military science…

Stargate Universe may seem to be a gritty show about solving the nigh-insoluble and surviving on the ragged edge of…

This week marks the twenty-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event which helped end the Cold War.…

Meet Ida, the 47 million year old fossil who may represent one of our earliest known ancestors. She's probably the…

Later today, Space Shuttle Atlantis will be lifting off from Florida for the last ever servicing mission to the Hubbl…

Stories of valiant spacefarers are making a comeback in science-fiction publishing, while space-war novels still…

As the world ends, who'll provide the soundtrack for the final moments? In all likelihood, apocalyptic British folk…

Today is the 12th Annual Space Day, an event that's jointly hosted by NASA and Lockheed Martin, held each year on…

Uranium was considered a useless material until very recently in human history, when it quite literally exploded…

39 years ago today, the world let loose a collective sigh of relief, as the Apollo 13 Odyssey Command Module…

Those were the words of Charlie Duke, the Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 16, which launched 37 years ago today.

The RMS Titanic sank almost a century ago, but it's still sailing through the imaginations of science-fiction…

It might take two space shuttles to complete NASA's next mission: making final repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope,…

After 33 years, the Science Fiction magazine giant Starlog will cease publication, moving from a print format to an…

As the current Middle East conflict continues on, futuristic military systems might be further away because of a new…

What does the Pentagon think about a possible robot uprising? Is Star Trek's view of combat realistic? We asked P.W.…