One Star Trek: TNG episode proved how clever time travel can be by building suspense and presenting a puzzle that sci-fi fans ...

Scientists have taken one more step down the very long road to time travel. A new paper combines the Alcubierre “warp” drive with the idea of “controlled closed timelike curves.” Though far out, ...

Time—ravager of youth; spoiler of milk; humanity’s oldest and deadliest foe. Yet in films we can conquer time easily: running it forwards and backward, skipping into the future or past with a simple ...

Have you ever made a mistake that you wish you could undo? Correcting past mistakes is one of the reasons we find the concept of time travel so fascinating. As often portrayed in science fiction, with ...

Recent scientific breakthroughs are making concepts once confined to science fiction, like time travel, seem tantalizingly closer to reality. From the potential of humans living to 1,000 years to the ...

Let’s just lay it all out on the table: time travel is terribly hard to get right in movies. Done poorly, time travel can be a one-way ticket to a confused and unhappy audience. Paradoxes pile on ...

Our editors and experts handpick every product we feature. We may earn a commission from your purchases. What makes time-travel books so fascinating? A key genre of the science fiction ecosystem, ...

When James Cameron wowed audiences with the original 1984 sci-fi horror flick, The Terminator, it felt unlikely that there would ever be a direct sequel. Even when there was, with Terminator 2: ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

Time travel movies may all share a core premise, but there’s a surprising variety of films that explore different ideas within the genre. Characters being transported through time can be caught in ...