As Trump orders release of UFO files, some ask: What would aliens think of us?

What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us?

Adivi Sesh on ‘Dacoit’: I am not playing the game for vanity

Actor-writer Adivi Sesh on how ‘Dacoit’ is an Indian story told through a Western lens, and why the rat race does not ...
SciTech Daily

“Project Hail Mary” – These 45 Exoplanets Could Be Home to Alien Life, Scientists Say

This artistic illustration shows the TRAPPIST-1 red dwarf star system, home to seven Earth-sized exoplanets, several of which lie within the star’s habitable zone. In the foreground is TRAPPIST-1 b, ...
Variety

Bringing Rocky to Life: How ‘Project Hail Mary’ Puppeteer James Ortiz Created the Movie’s Lovable Alien

The two men rehearsed each scene before bringing out the puppet so they could get the blocking nailed down. “That would be our one chance to check in with each other, see each other’s eyes, and sort ...
NPR

Ryan Gosling and a cute alien team up to save humanity in 'Project Hail Mary'

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel and also the book The Martian, is fundamentally an optimist. Both stories ...
Wall Street Journal

Blue Origin Formally Enters Race to Develop Data Centers in Space

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is seeking permission to deploy nearly 52,000 satellites capable of handling artificial-intelligence computing into orbit. The company said in a filing Thursday that its ...
Scientific American

Andy Weir on Ryan Gosling, alien contact and the wild science of Project Hail Mary

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...