How Project Hail Mary improves on the original story with an important shift in focus

That is the premise of Project Hail Mary when Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) opens his eyes aboard a spaceship orbiting the Tau Ceti system, with no memory of who he is, why he's there or how humanity ...

The 10 Scariest Animal Attack Movies Ever Made

Jaws, The Birds, and Backcountry are all among the best and most terrifying animal attack movies ever made.
Smithsonian Magazine

Alien Life Could Look Nothing Like What We Expect. Here’s How Microbes Beyond Earth Might Live Without Liquid Water

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 ...
Utah Public Radio

Ryan Gosling and a cute alien team up to save humanity in 'Project Hail Mary'

Problems of the natural world can be addressed through, and only through, mastery and cooperation might seem like a truism, but in Weir's stories, it emerges as an expansively hopeful thesis.

‘Project Hail Mary’ explores unique forms of life in space – 5 essential reads on searching for aliens that look nothing like life on Earth

“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...