The film which opens in theaters Thursday is grounded in a real nearby star systems an exoplanet science, with a dose of fictional biology.

Friday, March 20, 2026 (at exactly 10:46 a.m. ET), marks both its triumphant return in the Northern Hemisphere and the spring equinox. Get ready for longer days, warmer weather, a ...

A whale’s death offers a unique window and opportunity to study the animal up close and in this particular case, learn more about how this adult female gray whale may have be ...

New projects from Asmae El Moudir and Kathryn Ferguson, as well as a project about how the Russian school system is designed to groom children for war are among the honorees.

Among those bits and bobs in the case of Project Hail Mary is the sci-fi novel of the same name by Andy Weir, who also wrote the book that served as the source material for Ridley Scott’s The Martian.

Are you ready to meet Rocky? Project Hail Mary opens March 20, 2026, sending science teacher (and former molecular biologist) Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, on an adventure light-years from ...

The tool remains an interesting proof of concept, but it could expand into something genuinely useful for researchers and conservators.

Yet even though overpopulation is an issue as dated as Dacron pants or disco, Ehrlich helped give an imprimatur of scholarly authority to a new kind of politics—a politics of scarcity—that has proved ...

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

The Hubble Space Telescope captured rare images of a comet as it was breaking apart in November 2025. Credit: NASA / ESA / Dennis Bodewits / Joseph DePasquale For practically as long as NASA's Hubble ...

From 93,000 cinemas to a homegrown sci-fi boom, the view from Hong Kong's Filmart suggests Chinese cinema in 2026 is just ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a ...