Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters on Friday. By Katrina Miller Katrina attended a panel featuring the “Project ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a tough critic of science fiction books and films that explore these topics.

The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s energy, threatening life on Earth with extinction. To find a solution, an ...

Forget Ryan Gosling. Science was the real star of the show at a special advance screening of the new film Project Hail Mary for University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory staff and students ...

What is a super eruption and how did they create the geology of Yellowstone? Where is the world's largest, most explosive, and most unusual volcano? It's Yellowstone National Park. The Yellowstone ...

The stars where "Project Hail Mary" takes place, and possibly the planets orbiting them, are very real. We’d expect nothing less from Andy Weir, whose reputation for scientific accuracy helped define ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...

In Project Hail Mary, Dr. Ryland Grace is a humble schoolteacher who one day awakens to find he’s been launched into space as humanity’s last hope for survival. Given the meteoric rise to fame of ...