Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel and also the book The Martian, is fundamentally an optimist. Both stories ...

Ryan Gosling's "Project Hail Mary" contains a lot of scientific scenes and flashbacks. Here's a breakdown of the movie's most head-scratching moments.

As expansive as the sci-fi genre is within cinema, too many great movies are completely forgotten by audiences, like Moon and The Quiet Earth.

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Forget every postcard you have ever seen of the Silver State. Beyond the neon flicker of the Strip lies a landscape of impossible geometry. It is a world of ancient, twisted pines and stone cathedrals ...

There’s a playground in Waltham that’s so impressive, you might find yourself wishing you were small enough to climb on it yourself. The Universal Playground at Prospect Hill Park is the kind of place ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...

A reporter for a Spanish-language news outlet who contends she was wrongly held in a detention center for more than two weeks ...

“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...