He wakes up alone on a spaceship, barely able to speak, and somehow ends up Earth’s last, nerdy hope — armed with a dry-erase marker, a useless AI, and the kind of scrappy optimism that makes the end ...

Director Ridley Scott’s 2015 adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel The Martian succeeded by leaning into the “science” part of science fiction, depicting the combined efforts of a team of experts ...

After decades of “Alien” movies (and their rip-offs) convincing us that deep space alien encounters end with bloody bodily destruction, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller suggest in their ...