The bestselling writer and self-described “dork” explains how he crafts upbeat space-set thrillers from dire scenarios only expertise can solve.

What if running into an alien while far from home wasn't necessarily terrifying? After decades of "Alien" movies (and their rip-offs) convincing us that deep space alien encounters end with bloody ...

Executed with incredible craft and style and a whole lot of heart, “Project Hail Mary” verges on the edge of being too saccharinely sweet.

It's rare that a film adaptation outshines its source material but science fiction has given us several remarkable examples where the movie not only matched the ...

That’s exactly what Project Hail Mary, based on The Martian author Andy Weir’s hard sci-fi novel, is wrestling with. In the movie, not-so-heroic science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) is blasted ...

A recent SETI Institute study suggests that space weather could blur and weaken extraterrestrial radio signals long before they reach us.

Detecting extraterrestrial life in any form would be a momentous occasion, so, as Impey wrote, making a declaration might not be cut-and-dried. In “Project Hail Mary,” the fictional scientists sample ...

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 ...

From escapist adventures like Star Wars to piercing, cerebral dramas like Blade Runner, these sci-fi movies are truly timeless masterpieces of cinema.

The cross-species friendship powers this touching film from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. It has been described as 'E.T.' meets 'Interstellar' but that doesn't hint at its humanity.

The actor plays a molecular biologist trying to help save the world in this upbeat science-fiction fantasy from Phil Lord and ...