That special linguistic connection between a stone-skinned alien and the reluctant astronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) was ...

In the first installment of this rare multipart interview series with former Area 51 employee Bob Lazar, we discuss his new ...

In the first installment of this multipart interview series with former Area 51 employee Bob Lazar, we discuss his new S4 ...

UFOs have intrigued people for decades, with sightings and investigations dating back to the first widely reported one in ...

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?

Book-to-screen adaptations often radically alter a book’s plot — sometimes so much that the original story is practically unrecognizable. Some authors are philosophical about those changes. Others get ...

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s science-fiction thriller Project Hail Mary sticks surprisingly close to the book it’s adapting, a thriller about a lone astronaut trying to save Earth from ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...

Ryan Gosling’s newest costar is high-maintenance, had an entourage around him at all times and required his own wardrobe department on set. He’s also a space alien. “He is in the hotel right now in ...

The majority of “Project Hail Mary” takes place in outer space in the near future, but like many message-driven science fiction films, it’s really about the here and now on Earth. Based on the 2011 ...