Lord and Miller’s Project Hail Mary is a big-hearted space adventure that’s ultimately about a friendship between Ryan Gosling’s accidental astronaut Ryland Grace and his alien buddy Rocky. There’s a ...

We took a look at how close our real world is to some of the most remarkable parts of Ryan Gosling’s sci-fi blockbuster. The ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...

The FDA has released draft guidance that aims to clear up how drug developers can use alternative testing – but that doesn’t mean animal testing in the US is over.

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 ...

Remakes generally fail to live up to the original movie, but these five sci-fi examples managed to both match up to and outshine their inspirations.

Project Hail Mary' is everything a great sci-fi film should be: thrilling, hilarious, and anchored by a career-best Gosling.

Hollywood has never been known for its strict adherence to science. In most blockbusters the laws of physics are treated more like polite suggestions than hard rules. Need I mention “Armageddon”? I ...

As models like Gemini and Claude evolve, their simulated personalities can drift in strange directions—raising deeper questions about how AI systems think and decide.

The researchers were hoping to understand whether our own species' long documented appreciation (bordering on obsession) with crystals ...

Humans could have come from Mars, scientists have said. A study by Johns Hopkins University has found that alien microbes could travel between planets on asteroids, meaning humans could be descended ...

Two US lunar landers launched from the Kennedy Space Center touched down on the moon in March 2025, marking a milestone for NASA's Artemis program.