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 ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

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New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder ...

Movies like "Disclosure Day" and "Project Hail Mary" renew our fascination with extraterrestrials and the idea that humankind ...

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

Ryan Gosling anchors Project Hail Mary, a visually striking, character-focused sci-fi about an unlikely alien friendship that shines despite some rushed late-film science.

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 ...

Steven Spielberg returns to the science fiction genre with ‘Disclosure Day,’ a mysterious movie about aliens starring Emily ...

A warehouse worker, Teddy (played by Jesse Plemons), accuses high-powered CEO Michelle (Emma Stone) of being an ...

ICE agents busted a South Texas human smuggling ring, resulting in the arrests and sentencing of gang bangers who kidnapped a ...