"Project Hail Mary" is a modern sci-fi hit that explores how a sun might die and how the human race could find a way to survive in that hypothetical scenario. In the film, fictional microorganisms ...

Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Vernor Vinge, who died in March 2024, won the Hugo Award for A Fire Upon the Deep in 1993, sharing it with Connie ...

I had this idea of building my own bicycle lighting system totally personalized, the lights would have the exact lighting pattern I wanted and the shape I decide. That's why I started to build this ...

In the world of “Project Hail Mary,” humanity looks down the barrel of a crawling, unstoppable threat to its planet and way of life. As the world grows cold one day at a time, the people play ostrich, ...

Andy Weir’s 2021 space saga follows a middle school teacher, Ryland Grace, who is forced to leave his classroom and join a last-ditch mission to save humanity from sun-eating microbes. But he doesn’t ...

“The Martian,” Weir’s debut, is similar to “Project Hail Mary” in its dry humor and catastrophic conditions. It follows Mark Watney, a botanist aboard the first manned mission to Mars, presumed dead ...

What if running into an alien while far from home wasn’t necessarily terrifying? After decades of “Alien” movies (and their rip-offs) convincing us that deep space alien encounters end with bloody ...