What if running into an alien while far from home wasn't necessarily terrifying? After decades of "Alien" movies (and their rip-offs) convincing us that deep space alien encounters end with bloody ...

"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 ...

Sorry, Ryan Gosling, but this is the real star of your movie.

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 ...

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.

"Mere presence of vegetation or tree cover cannot by itself be equated with the existence of a natural forest ecosystem.” ...

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

Image Credit: Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Martian (Image: Universal Pictures, Amazon MGM and 20th Century Fox ...

Folding wings are not something that is often associated with commercial aviation, but the 777X breaks this norm. How do these systems work?

Guides constantly monitor conditions to ensure visitor safety. Peppersauce Cave hides an underground wonderland beneath the ...

As wildfire risk grows in the Western Cape, wine producers are shifting towards preparedness and collaboration.