Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel on which its based as well as the book The Martian, is fundamentally an ...

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.

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.

A NASA rover has discovered signs of an ancient river beneath Mars' surface, using ground-penetrating radar to reveal buried ...