Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...

Researchers at MBARI, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, have been exploring this hidden world for years. Using ...

Then there’s the science. Project Hail Mary is based on Andy Weir’s ‘hard sci-fi’ book of the same name, published in 2021, six years after his earlier novel The Martian was adapted into Ridley ...

The Ryan Gosling-led Project Hail Mary does, in many ways, feel like a lowercase Interstellar: a fantastically good time at ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for The Lord of the Rings universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they’re very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers have so far identified over 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, only a ...

Grace skips Earth to rescue Rocky, sends the Taumoeba cure home via four Beetle probes, and ends up teaching alien children on Erid.