"Project Hail Mary" is a deeply faithful adaptation of Andy Weir's book, but it's impossible to convert from page to film everything without cuts or tweaks. The film follows a lone man far from home ...

Through pictures, digging through personal items, and a lot of vodka, the man begins to remember that he is a middle school ...

Space isn't a forgiving place to be stuck. There's no air, no pulling over for directions and no margin for error. When something goes wrong, you're left ...

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.

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 ...

Dark Star, Seconds, and Outland are all excellent, sadly overlooked science fiction films that have aged like fine wine.

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