The Martian is a movie that shouldn’t have ... but it’s probably as close as Hollywood will ever get to a Mars mission explainer in movie form. Scott’s guiding hand, however, is still ...

The movie "The Martian," is based on Andy ... the way the actual conditions on Mars, and the fundamental problems they would cause, acted as a base for his storytelling and dictated the course ...

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In “The Martian,” out Friday, astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) gets ditched on Mars by his friends because he ate all the space ice cream on the trip there. Don’t worry, though — movies ...

NASA hasn't landed humans on Mars yet. But thanks to robotic missions, scientists now know more about the planet's surface ...

"The Martian" is hitting cinemas ... they've been using the movie as a marketing campaign for their own, actual manned missions to Mars in the 2030s. Based on the book of the same name by Andy ...

A picture from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on NASA’s Mars ... in the movie in response to requests from Andy Weir, who wrote the book on which “The Martian” is based.

The first in a pair of Y2K movies ... Martian civilization is a far cry from the moody running back on the football team of a small Texas high school. Better to be as far away from Mars as possible.

it’s some form of Martian life that drives humans away. The tradition of Mars movies as Westerns can be traced back to Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Barsoom series—landmark sci-fi literature from ...

It'd be easy for the movie to get bogged down, say, when Watney explains the finer details of his plans to grow Martian potatoes by planting the crew's Thanksgiving rations in a field of Mars dirt ...

The most gripping aspect of The Martian ... the movie trailer, then you know Matt Damon plays a fictional character named Mark Watney, a NASA astronaut and botanist on a 30-day mission to Mars ...