With all this talk about heading to and then colonising Mars, YouTube channel Vsauce ponders whether it’s even OK to touch the surface of the planet. No rocks from Mars have ever been brought back to earth and no human has ever touched the plant’s surface, so what will happen when we do?

When it was first announced there was a lot of scepticism surrounding a Blade Runner sequel—mainly because the original was so damn good and because the Philip K. Dick novel upon which it was based didn’t have a sequel. But things have been looking more and more positive as the trailers have come out. The [...]

Although there has been very limited research in the area, human reproduction in space is going to be a key factor when it comes to colonizing other planets and living on Mars. Because while going somewhere relatively close like the Moon takes only days, a mission to Mars would take a months. And as technology [...]

Made in collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), this short film from director Erik Wernquist is about the spectacular ending of the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn. Both made to be informative and an inspiration, it follows what will happen in the last months of the missions, celebrating the historic accomplishments of this special spacecraft.

Magali Barbe is a director and VFX animator who’s previously applied her skills to big budget Hollywood movies, and now she’s just released a short story that peers into our virtual reality future. It looks at the concept of VR pets and creatures but has a kind of of Black Mirror type vibe .

This animated short by Noodles Studio is a proof of concept for a proposed animated adult series. The series will center around an astronaut named Dave who is headed to Mars. As a mark of the kind of wackiness you can expect from the series, his buddy on this journey is a sentient melon who [...]

With the 2017 Oscars looming before us, now’s the perfect time to look back at all the Oscar winners for visual effects, from 1927 to 2016. The VFX is an interesting category because it often includes those big budget blockbusters or sci-fi movies that often don’t get a nod in the best picture Oscar category. [...]

Remember the badass ED-209, Omni Consumer Products peachekeeping machines from RoboCop? Of course you do, it was a cooler robot than even RoboCop himself, although they’re not very good on stairs. Anyway, the guys at Ghostlight created a very large, very detailed ED-209 and it’s seriously impressive.

Being the first standalone story in the Star Wars universe there was a helluva lot riding on Rogue One, and it wasn’t all plain sailing to get to the final movie. There were frequent rewrites, extensive reshoots, and all the scenes featured in the trailers that never actually made it into the movie.

It was thirty years ago in 1987 that sci-fi movie The Running Man starring Arnold Schwarzenegger came out. And, strangely, it seems to have totally predicted the prevailing climate of 2017. It features a television host giving orders to a police state in the midst of economic collapse. Meanwhile the citizens are way too distracted [...]

For some reason, probably due to safety, no one sells drones that can lift a human off the ground, so Casey Neistat decides to build one. He then dresses up as Santa and climbs on a snowboard and gets towed along by this powerful flying machine whizzing down, and up, the slopes.