The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary has positioned itself as a serious science fiction effort, one that consulted real space scientists and drew from actual astrophysics research. But ...

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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 ...

What would you do if you woke up on a spaceship light-years from Earth without knowing why you’re there? Project Hail Mary opens in theaters March 20. Ahead of the film’s release, Astronomy spoke with ...

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 ...

Andy Weir, perhaps best-known for his now-classic science fiction book-turned-movie The Martian, has produced another fantastical and deeply science-based book in Project Hail Mary. This book, which ...