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 ...

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The excellent sci-fi is out now in cinemas.

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.

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Medical laboratory scientist Juan Chavez Velasco was delivering milk to his 12-day-old infant in intensive care when he was detained by federal agents in Weslaco, Texas ...

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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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 ...

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