Sarah Vise, planetarium and Science on a Sphere manager at Science Central, explains features of the starball projector, donated by the University of Saint Francis, during a tour of the center’s ...

Anyone who has read (or at least started) Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary in the lead-up to the new book-to-screen adaptation starring Ryan Gosling knows that there’s a whole lot of "sci" in this sci-fi ...

NEW YORK – I should’ve known bringing Andy Weir to a science museum was like bringing a kid to a candy store and asking them to keep their hands in their pockets. The book may be dense with what ...

During a recent stream of Halo 2 (obviously!) fantasy heavyweight and master geek-culture commentator Brandon Sanderson took a moment to remind his audience that the sci-fi and fantasy world extends ...

Introducing computer science at the elementary level gives young learners a strong foundation for the future. By learning tech skills early, students are set up for success in school and beyond. Today ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...

Project Hail Mary is a science fiction film based on Andy Weir's novel of the same name. The film adaptation is directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller from a screenplay by Drew Goddard, who previously ...

The stars where "Project Hail Mary" takes place, and possibly the planets orbiting them, are very real. We’d expect nothing less from Andy Weir, whose reputation for scientific accuracy helped define ...

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 ...

The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s energy, threatening life on Earth with extinction. To find a solution, an ...

Project Hail Mary stars Ryan Gosling as a science teacher who wakes up aboard a spaceship on a one-way mission to save Earth — but with no memory of how he got there. It's based on a novel of the same ...

Note: Because of Project Hail’s Mary's plot structure, some of these character descriptions contain spoilers. We recommend avoiding these descriptions if you’re interested in reading the book first.