Interstellar travel is a staple of science fiction, but writers and filmmakers often take different approaches to it. Here's what "Project Hail Mary" does.

He wakes up alone on a spaceship, barely able to speak, and somehow ends up Earth’s last, nerdy hope — armed with a dry-erase marker, a useless AI, and the kind of scrappy optimism that makes the end ...

Life on Earth is a precious thing, especially given what astronomers know about the visible universe. Although researchers ...

"These ultra-low density planets are rare and they defy conventional understanding of how gas giants form, and if explaining how one formed wasn't difficult enough, this system has three!" ...

Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller were in the midst of their largest production ever, the $200 million science-fiction adventure ...

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

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s treacly alien buddy comedy about an astronaut stranded in outer space gives even the most curmudgeonly among us things to laugh at.

Ryan Gosling's "Project Hail Mary" costar is a high-maintenance creature with his own "glam squad." The actor introduces us to Rocky, a lovable alien.

Portal Space Systems is partnering with Paladin Space on a commercial service that would round up and dispose of orbital debris.

io9 spoke to directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller about some additions to the movie, out March 20.

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

The actor plays a molecular biologist trying to help save the world in this upbeat science-fiction fantasy from Phil Lord and ...