"The Martian" star Matt Damon, director Ridley Scott and Andy Weir, who wrote the book on which the movie is based, visited NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on Aug. 18.

Much of this heavy gear -- which will consist of human habitat modules and other infrastructure -- must make it down to the Martian surface. That's a tall order, since the 1-ton Curiosity rover ...

Ready for its close-up "[It] looked pretty good to me," said Donna Shirley, who in 1997 was NASA's Mars Exploration program manager. ["The Martian": A Movie and Book Review]collectSPACE.com asked ...

NASA scientists and engineers were technical consultants on the big new space movie "The Martian" coming to screens Oct. 2, and they are proud of how realistically the movie portrays a Mars mission.

Aziz Ansari could have been in the hit movie of the fall, but he passed on it because, he said, he thought the movie would be “boring.” “I was … asked to audition for a part in ‘The ...

NASA is praying The Martian will last a lot longer than that in theaters. Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the Mars 2020 mission will be manned. It will be an ...

Many people watching the Ridley Scott film The Martian in theaters have been struck by the scope and immediacy of the world of hero Mark Watney. Some executives at 20th Century Fox, though, had a ...

Movie capsules for the week of 10/2. News Sports Business Opinion Entertainment Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals. ... “The Martian” (PG-13): Matt Damon is an astronaut stranded on Mars, ...

Project Hail Mary" stars Ryan Gosling as an underqualified astronaut trying to save humanity, and I'm sold after watching just the first trailer.