Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is a science-fiction novel centered on Ryland Grace, a former middle-school teacher who wakes up alone on a spacecraft with no memory of who he is or why he's there.

Editor’s note: “Project Hail Mary,” starring Ryan Gosling, opens in theaters on Friday. The world is ending. Our sun is nearing the brink of annihilation, consumed by an unknown spacefaring organism ...

"Project Hail Mary," the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi novel from Andy Weir, is being praised for putting the science in science fiction. Although aliens, sun-draining ...