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"The Martian" hits theaters today, and we think it's going to be a space movie of epic proportions. Here's how it stacks up against its source material: the book "The Martian" by Andy Weir.

An image of a chain link. It symobilizes a website link url. Copy Link I have seen the film adaptation of Andy Weir's best-selling novel "The Martian," and I can deliver my review in one sentence ...

Leave it to the man who directed the scariest movie ever made about outer space – “Alien” – to now make the coolest movie you’ve ever seen about outer space, “The Martian.” The man ...

Space lovers has a reason to be nervous about The Martian, in which Matt Damon stars as a marooned astronaut who must figure out how to survive alone on a hostile planet, and maybe, just maybe ...

★★★★★ Buckle up, boys and girls: science is sexy again. Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, Donald Glover and Jeff Daniels star in Ridley Scott’s latest star-studded space adventure ...

Space movies come in three broad types: fantasy, adventure and Deep Thoughts. Think "Guardians of the Galaxy," "Apollo 13" and "2001: A Space Odyssey." They can straddle the categories a bit, but ...

The Martian movie now comes recommended by a real astronaut. Entertainment ... Rick Mastracchio is a veteran of four spaceflights, logging 228 days in space and nine spacewalks totalling 53 hours.

Be careful which way you run: Andy Weir, the author of the book on which the “Martian” movie is based, included an artificial-gravity system in his description of the Mars transfer spaceship ...

The science behind Matt Damon’s upcoming science-fiction movie "The Martian" received a thumbs up from Jim Green, NASA’s director of planetary science at a press event earlier this month.

Of course I saw the movie "The Martian." It was a way for my students and staff to celebrate our accomplishments after a long year of preparation and execution of the International Symposium for ...

On the surface, "The Martian" may sound a little like "Interstellar" 2.0: a big budget sci-fi movie where Matt Damon gets stranded in space. We're all aware of the symmetry.