Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters ...

Star Wars had been released in theaters and changed everything about the way Hollywood perceived the genre, and television executives wanted in on that cash-grab just as much as movie executives. In ...

Seven years ago, Andy Weir was busy writing Project Hail Mary, his sci-fi epic about a school teacher, Dr Ryland Grace, who wakes up on a spacecraft and gradually remembers he’s there to save ...

The science fiction genre is home to plenty of movies that are pretty great, yet also pretty forgotten, including Chronopolis ...

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After going "Across the Spider-Verse," the filmmaking team Lord and Miller blasts Ryan Gosling off on a funny, inspiring space adventure about the best of humanity.

Syfy's highly-rated sci-fi drama was cancelled after four seasons but it's still popular on streaming services. Get all the ...

Ahead of the film adaptation’s release, Weir talked to Popular Mechanics about creating accurate sci-fi tech, protagonist ...

A civilization capable of interstellar travel may also be one that has moved beyond conquest, excess and ecological self-destruction — and it therefore may not want to talk to us.

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

Oxygen has been the most important gas in our search for life among the cosmos thus far. On Earth, we have it in abundance ...