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 ...

It’s sometimes funny, occasionally annoying, definitely too long, and wavers constantly between intriguing science and absurd ...

Ryan Gosling stars as Ryland Grace in Project Hail Mary, a school science teacher who finds himself on board a spaceship with ...

After decades of “Alien” movies (and their rip-offs) convincing us that deep space alien encounters end with bloody bodily destruction, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller suggest in their ...

So, first contact with aliens. What would it be like. Hostile? Terrifying? What if it were funny. Connecting. Endearingly human-like, despite involving a life form utterly different from us. What if ...

Based on a hot as a supernova 2021 novel by Davis native Andy Weir (“The Martian” ), “Hail Mary” wraps divergent elements ...

He wakes up alone on a spaceship, barely able to speak, and somehow ends up Earth’s last, nerdy hope — armed with a dry-erase marker, a useless AI, and the kind of scrappy optimism that makes the end ...

"Project Hail Mary" is a thrilling sci-fi adventure that’s smart, emotional and funny. It’s a solid big-screen adaptation of ...