‘Project Hail Mary’ Offers 4 Lessons Hollywood Should Learn — But Won’t

From assuming audiences are smart to using practical effects, here are some lessons from the blockbuster sci-fi epic.

'Project Hail Mary' Creator Andy Weir Just Taught Me a Surprising Thing About Sci-Fi

I spoke with Andy Weir about the adaptation of his hit novel, Project Hail Mary. Our conversation quickly turned into a ...

A Study Suggests Aliens Aren’t Little Green Men. They’re Purple People Eaters.

A study from Cornell University discovered that a particular purple “light fingerprint” could be indicative of ...

‘Project Hail Mary’ explores unique forms of life in space – 5 essential reads on searching for aliens that look nothing like life on Earth

The fictional biologist in ‘Project Hail Mary’ claims that potential alien organisms might not be made of carbon or require water, unlike life on Earth.

What the ‘Project Hail Mary’ Directors Learned From a Firing

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, best known for animations like the “Spider-Verse” films, took lessons from “Solo: A Star ...
IGN India

Project Hail Mary Is the Ultimate 'Hopecore' Space Movie

That’s exactly what Project Hail Mary, based on The Martian author Andy Weir’s hard sci-fi novel, is wrestling with. In the ...

‘Project Hail Mary’ Directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Have ‘a Chip’ on Their Shoulders — but Not About This Film

The filmmakers tell IndieWire about returning to directing, the fear inherent to all creativity, and the adorable new alien ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

As ICE moved in, Minnesotans set up shadow medical system; it’s a lesson for other cities

Homeland Security has declared an end to what it called Operation Metro Surge. Even so, immigration agents are still camping out in hospital parking lots. And drones fly overhead in ...
Wired

Don’t Expect Big Surprises in the Government’s Alien Files

Aliens have invaded the news again. Last month, two US presidents weighed in on the topic in rapid succession, managing to make a public that was already obsessed with extraterrestrials even more so.
New Scientist

SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather

We may have been missing signals from intelligent aliens because of solar wind. Researchers from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute say this means we have been watching for ...
Gizmodo

SETI Thinks It Might Have Missed a Few Alien Calls. Here’s Why

Scientists hunting for radio signals from any form of advanced extraterrestrial life that might be out there trying to contact us are now starting to wonder if something has been messing with their ...