We might have had it wrong this whole time.

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s ...

Scientists have identified 45 Earth-like exoplanets that are the strongest known candidates for hosting extraterrestrial life.

Out of the 6,000 known exoplanets, it's these rocky worlds that are most worthy of attention in the search for life beyond ...

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

The whole story of "Project Hail Mary" revolves around an alien microbe known as Astrophage that's dimming the sun. Here's everything you need to know about it.

Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters ...

Astronomers propose finding alien civilizations by searching for unusually cold stars that could be surrounded by Dyson swarms—energy-harvesting structures first proposed by Freeman Dyson.

Then there’s the science. Project Hail Mary is based on Andy Weir’s ‘hard sci-fi’ book of the same name, published in 2021, six years after his earlier novel The Martian was adapted into Ridley ...

“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 ...

By snatching chloroplasts from algae, animals called sacoglossans produce their own energy through photosynthesis ...