In 1927, the Soviet Association of Inventors decided to hold an exhibition dedicated to the possibility of space…
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Although Hugo Gernsback is best-known among fans for creating the first-ever magazine devoted to science fiction, he…
It's one of the most familiar images from nineteenth century science fiction: an eager, ferret-faced gentleman named…
The passengers wait eagerly in the ornate lobby of the enormous spaceport. Soon, a signal indicates that their…
Io keeps the same face toward Jupiter as it orbits the planet. For this reason, Jupiter appears to hang motionless…
The rogue surgeon who operates on Pentizel to enhance her human qualities works out of an abandoned bus in a junk…
On October 29, 1933, the London Sunday Referee published a report from Rugen, an island in the Baltic Sea, just off…
The 1920s were the fledgling years of the real Golden Age of space travel, which lasted until the first few moon…
Science fiction and fantasy cosplay has changed a lot in the last 35 years. Back in the late 1970s, there weren't…
One would think that with barely 100th the atmosphere Earth has Mars would have pretty lame weather...if any. But…
In 1935, a wealthy, enterprising stamp dealer, 32-year-old Frido W. Kessler, came up with what seemed like a…
There are some swell places to visit in the Solar System, but there are also a few places that it might be best to…
One of the weirdest of the solar system's moons is Iapetus. This is a medium-sized (1,471 km (914 miles) satellite…
Although largely unknown today, astronomer-artist Lucien Rudaux was the grandfather of all modern space art. During…
Everything comes to an end, and our sun is no exception. A star happily cooking along in its middle age, Sol has…
2011 will be remembered as the year that put exoplanets on everybody's starmaps. Though we'd discovered planets…
Is the world going to come to an end? Certainly! The real question is how it might happen. That's what this gallery…
It would sometimes seem as though there are two solar systems: One including planets, and another including moons.…
Astronomical artist Ron Miller creates scientifically accurate images of faraway worlds. In a continuing series for…