Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s ...

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The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary has positioned itself as a serious science fiction effort, one that consulted real space scientists and drew from actual astrophysics research. But ...

A decade after audiences marveled at the Matt Damon-led survival story The Martian, a new film is bringing a novel from sci-fi author Andy Weir to the big screen. But we at Popular Mechanics wondered: ...

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