Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s Project Hail Mary was a critical and commercial hit. It earned a gushing review from ...

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Even though every hard science fiction movie is rooted in some sense of realism, there are a handful of titles, including ...

The Psyche spacecraft is bound for a metal-rich asteroid that it will examine up close starting in 2029. But first, it needs ...

A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid is swinging past Mars for a gravity boost. The Psyche spacecraft will slingshot past the red planet at more than 12,000 mph Friday.

Named Psyche like the asteroid it’s after, the robotic explorer will slingshot past the red planet at 12,333 mph (19,848 kph) ...

Psyche will travel quite close to Mars, coming within just 2,800 miles of the red planet's surface at its nearest point, according to NASA. Slingshotting past at about 12,333 miles per hour, the ...

Sometimes the most extraordinary places are hiding in the most ordinary spots, and The Boulder Garden in Southfield proves ...

The Martian proved that Andy Weir's sci-fi novels were ripe for Hollywood adaptations, but he thinks a handful of flops ...

A one-way trip to Mars takes somewhere between seven and 10 months, following a fairly direct route between Earth and our neighboring planet. But what if we could cut that journey by more than half, ...

Curiosity has detected a surprising variety of organic molecules on Mars, including compounds tied to the chemistry of life. Some of these molecules may be billions of years old, preserved in ancient ...

Whether it's robotic rovers heading to Mars or, one day, a crew of astronauts, a round-trip journey is an incredibly long one. But there may be a way to find a shortcut. A new study published in the ...