What could be fun about world-ending catastrophes, an amnesiac astronaut and the ever-expanding, deadly, unknowable void that is space? As “Project Hail Mary,” the newest big-budget blockbuster by ...

We don't often get high quality popcorn flicks these days — movies that are not just pure entertainment, but that are also extremely well-made, particularly in the post-COVID era. Only a handful of ...

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 ...

It’s been a minute since we’ve had a big-screen space epic that’s as fun as it is awe inspiring. The last memorable one might have been “The Martian,” so perhaps it shouldn’t be all that surprising ...

This image released by Amazon MGM Studios shows Ryan Gosling in a scene from "Project Hail Mary." (Jonathan Olley/Amazon MGM Studios via AP) (AP) — It’s been a minute since we’ve had a big screen ...

It’s been a minute since we’ve had a big screen space epic that’s as fun as it is awe inspiring. The last memorable one might have been “The Martian, ” so perhaps it shouldn’t be all that surprising ...

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 ...