Back to the Future underwent significant changes, including replacing Eric Stoltz with Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, resulting in a light and funny tone. Small changes like renaming the character ...

Imagine a scenario in which you visit a friend’s home and, to your shock, discover a time machine sitting in her living room. After a few jaunts to check out some dinosaurs, stir up a little trouble ...

Back in 1985—before Back to the Future II and long before Marty's arrival in the modern day (today)—Popular Mechanics took a good, hard look at the original movie's iconic DeLorean time machine. These ...

In the movies, time travelers typically step inside a machine and—poof—disappear. They then reappear instantaneously among cowboys, knights or dinosaurs. What these films show is basically time ...

Fans of science fiction movies and TV know that behind aliens, space travel, and robots, time travel is, by far, one of the most beloved and often employed tropes of the genre. In fact, you could ...

A common theme in science-fiction media, time travel is captivating. It’s defined by the late philosopher David Lewis in his essay “The Paradoxes of Time Travel ...