Say the words “science fiction,” and most people immediately think of outer space. It’s ironic, then, that so few sci-fi movies actually set in outer space have ever been made. When they are made, far ...

2001: A Space Odyssey is a ground-breaking sci-fi movie, but other entries in the genre have also reshaped these kinds of stories. Director Stanley Kubrick delivered one of the most influential movies ...

We write a lot about robots here at New Scientist – the latest cutting-edge developments, the newest technology. Fancy reading about a golf robot? A laundry robot? A kickboxing robot? A space robot?

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ISS Commander Suni Williams helps test out an Astrobee free-flying robot, outfitted with mechanical octopus tentacles to capture dead satellites and hyper-speed space debris, as she orbits the planet ...