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Project Hail Mary finds its spark in companionship, turning equations and extinction-level stakes into something unexpectedly ...

Image Credit: Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Martian (Image: Universal Pictures, Amazon MGM and 20th Century Fox ...

A year ago, the internal civil rights and detention watchdogs were gutted. Now, accountability is out of reach while abuses ...

With Alien: Romulus out this week, we're resurfacing this op-ed which looks at how the film's director, Fede Álvarez, could be on the verge of getting the Alien franchise back on track. The Alien ...

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 ...