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Andy Weir discusses his science-fueled novel “Project Hail Mary,” which has been adapted into a film that opens in theaters ...

After years of discovering exoplanets at a staggering pace, astronomers are now starting to distinguish the simply ...

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.