How 'Project Hail Mary' Rocky Puppeteer Brought the Alien to Life

When Ryan Gosling interacts on screen with his alien buddy, which he does for more than half of “Project Hail Mary,” he wasn’t staring at a green screen as cameras rolled. Instead, he was playing off ...

Meet Rocky, Ryan Gosling's 'diva' alien best friend in 'Project Hail Mary'

Ryan Gosling's "Project Hail Mary" costar is a high-maintenance creature with his own "glam squad." The actor introduces us ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Alien Life Could Look Nothing Like What We Expect. Here’s How Microbes Beyond Earth Might Live Without Liquid Water

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 ...

‘Project Hail Mary’ author Andy Weir talks Ryan Gosling, making science entertaining

We took Andy Weir to a science museum and watched him nerd out with an astrophysicist and about making "Project Hail Mary" ...
Science Friday

‘Project Hail Mary’ brings a new kind of alien to the big screen

Astrobiologist and planetary scientist Mike Wong is a big fan of Rocky’s non-traditional look, because it points to the fact that evolution is often random.

In ‘Project Hail Mary,’ Phil Lord and Chris Miller finally get their space odyssey

Keeping it all in the family at South by Southwest Movie Review: A really, really bad wedding night gets worse in ‘Ready or Not 2’ An AI-rendered Val Kilmer will posthumously appear in a new film ...

Stephen Baldwin Gives Warning About Aliens in Strange Instagram Post

Stephen’s reputation for random behavior is making headlines once again. The post Stephen Baldwin Gives Warning About Aliens in Strange Instagram Post appeared first on Reality Tea.

‘Project Hail Mary’ explores unique forms of life in space – 5 essential reads on searching for aliens that look nothing like life on Earth

“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 ...
Utah Public Radio

Ryan Gosling and a cute alien team up to save humanity in 'Project Hail Mary'

Problems of the natural world can be addressed through, and only through, mastery and cooperation might seem like a truism, but in Weir's stories, it emerges as an expansively hopeful thesis.

How accurate is the science in Project Hail Mary?

The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s ...

'We are not alone,' Steven Spielberg tells SXSW while discussing aliens and AI

At SXSW, Steven Spielberg shared his belief in extraterrestrial life, reflected on "E.T." and warned against AI replacing ...

In rare move, ICE drags criminal defendant out of a federal courtroom

A criminal defense attorney said agents in plainsclothes pulled his client out of a federal courtroom Thursday. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that ICE arrested his client that ...