Ryan Gosling's "Project Hail Mary" contains a lot of scientific scenes and flashbacks. Here's a breakdown of the movie's most head-scratching moments.
The film that follows — flatly repetitive with far too many wildly misguided and self-serious moments — is turgid from start ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more ...
Ryan Gosling stars alongside Sandra Huller and an alien in this superb adaptation of the Andy Weir bestseller.
Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...
A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...