Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel and also the book The Martian, is fundamentally an optimist. Both stories ...

During a wide-ranging keynote conversation at SXSW, Steven Spielberg shared something that immediately caught the audience’s ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

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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.

If intelligent life should be common in a universe with hundreds of billions of galaxies, why does the cosmos remain eerily silent? This video explores the famous Fermi Paradox and the Kardashev Scale ...

Ryan Gosling anchors Project Hail Mary, a visually striking, character-focused sci-fi about an unlikely alien friendship that shines despite some rushed late-film science.

A warehouse worker, Teddy (played by Jesse Plemons), accuses high-powered CEO Michelle (Emma Stone) of being an ...

Astrobiologist and planetary scientist Mike Wong is a big fan of Rocky’s non-traditional look, because it points to the fact that evolution is often random.

Steven Spielberg says he suspects aliens exist on Earth now and believes his new film Disclosure Day explores how humanity ...

During an interview at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin on Friday (13), Steven Spielberg commented on the possibility of life beyond Earth. The director of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” shared ...

Evidence of alien life or cosmic pyramid scheme? A documentary filmmaker sparked a discussion of advanced Martian ...