NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author and film critic Kenneth Turan about his new book, "Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation." ...

I n 1976, the American Viking 1 Orbiter spotted something very peculiar on the surface of Mars. There among the many lumps ...

A best-selling book from the 1990s proclaimed that “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus” as a way to explain the differences between the genders. By understanding the different ways men and ...

From Static Shock to Impulse, these young heroes would be perfect additions to the DCU's Teen Titans alongside safe picks ...

All eyes are on the Red Planet once again after a bizarre ‘square structure’ on the Martian surface caused a cosmic commotion ...

A critical flaw in The Martian’s ending raises questions about its realism, challenging the accuracy of the film’s dramatic ...

The Village Voice reviews the current survey of Frederick Wiseman down to earth films showing at Film at Lincoln Center.

A book called "Mars Project" originated as a technical appendix to a science fiction novel, both of which were written by rocket science pioneer Wernher von Braun.  The technical appendix was ...

"The Martian" is one of the finest sci-fi films of the 2010s. Here are nearly a dozen more movies that feature the same combo ...

"When people find out about that they're going to say 'who put that there?'," Buzz Aldrin once said of the monolith.

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the ...

I remember an older sister convincing me that people lived inside the moon. Of course, this was an earlier age of rocketry, ...