The 1976 science fiction film The Man Who Fell to Earth marked David Bowie’s first starring role and is now 50. He plays Thomas Jerome Newton, a humanoid alien who comes to Earth searching for water ...

The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s ...

Project Hail Mary mashes up goofy antics with high-stakes space drama.

A recent SETI Institute study suggests that space weather could blur and weaken extraterrestrial radio signals long before they reach us.

"Project Hail Mary," the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi novel from Andy Weir, is being praised for putting the science in science fiction. Although aliens, sun-draining ...

Astronomers have just revealed the most promising places in the universe to search for extraterrestrial life, identifying almost 50 rocky worlds that are most likely to be habitab ...

A study from Cornell University discovered that a particular purple “light fingerprint” could be indicative of ...

The fictional biologist in ‘Project Hail Mary’ claims that potential alien organisms might not be made of carbon or require water, unlike life on Earth.

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel ...

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 ...

It’s been a minute since we’ve had a big screen space epic that’s as fun as it is awe inspiring. The last memorable one might have been “The Martian,” so perhaps it shouldn’t be all that surprising ...