The new film probes the possibility of alien life – here's how the science of Project Hail Mary stacks up.

Ryan Gosling's "Project Hail Mary" costar is a high-maintenance creature with his own "glam squad." The actor introduces us to Rocky, a lovable alien.

Streetlights shaped like alien heads line the roads of Roswell, New Mexico, where murals of flying saucers streak across ...

If there is a poet laureate of the "you can just do things" crowd, it's novelist Andy Weir. Weir broke into the mainstream with The Martian, a science fiction novel about a man stuck on Mars who ...

The screenwriter talks about adapting Andy Weir's novel for the screen, and the challenge of writing dialogue for smart characters.

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...