Before the 1990s, science fiction inadvertently fostered the impression that habitable, earthlike planets were abundant. Exoplanet findings have tempered this optimism.

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The daemon then discusses the motion of the planets as seen from the Moon and describes Levanian flora and fauna. Each lunar day equals two weeks on Earth, and each night another 14 Earth days.

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Science fiction has always had a habit of creating content ahead of its time. Books, movies, and shows have long created ...

Planets around binary stars were first predicted by science fiction before it became science reality. The universe is really interesting and there's lots of stuff going on! Thomas Baycroft ...

The best new science fiction books of June 2025. June’s sci-fi hot tips feature a sleep-killing neural chip from Laura Elliott, plus Will Carver's vision of a world where a virus makes us kinder.