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 ...

NEW YORK – I should’ve known bringing Andy Weir to a science museum was like bringing a kid to a candy store and asking them to keep their hands in their pockets. The book may be dense with what ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Once upon a time, information arrived printed on paper, rolled into a tube, and tossed through the air to arrive on a lawn or doorstep. There’s a witty callback to this practice, known as “delivering ...

Sara Webb does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun. By Robin George Andrews Astronomers on Wednesday ...

While the data set isn’t large enough to be truly scientific, we think it’s safe to say that any time a novel by Andy Weir has been adapted for the big screen — especially when the screenplay has been ...