Before zombies shambled about, ghoulishly feasting on the flesh of those too slow to flee, aliens from outer space ruled ...

One of Project Hail Mary's main characters is an alien rock who doesn't have a face. For screenwriter Drew Goddard, adapting ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

But the Freakybuttrue Peculiarium and Museum in Portland, Oregon is completely real, completely legal, and completely unlike ...

UFOs have intrigued people for decades, with sightings and investigations dating back to the first widely reported one in ...

This creature doesn’t think the way we do—because it doesn’t have just one brain. With 9 brains and 3 hearts, it can process information across its entire body, even controlling each arm independently ...

There's an amphibian in Mexico that looks like a Pokémon and regrow entire limb. Meet the axolotl, one of the cutest ...

Project Hail Mary wouldn’t have worked nearly as well without the decision to make Rocky a practical puppet instead of CGI.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the directors of "Project Hail Mary." ...

The majority of “Project Hail Mary” takes place in outer space in the near future, but like many message-driven science fiction films, it’s really about the here and now on Earth. Based on the 2011 ...

The vast majority of our planet remains a complete mystery, hidden beneath miles of crushing water where sunlight never penetrates. In this eternal darkness, evolution has taken a path so bizarre that ...