NASA has always been proud of it’s heritage – and in particular it’s record of never having lost an astronaut to the vast expanses of space. For a company unrivalled in their risk to human ...

The science fiction novel-turned-movie "The Martian" has spawned an awesomely nerdy meme that gives props to NASA. It shows how many "sols" — Martian days — that both "The Martian" main ...

Mars orbiter shows why ‘The Martian’ movie trek would be even ... 2015 at 5:54 pm October 5, 2015 at 5:54 pm. ... Watney would have had a hard time sleeping beneath his rover as shown in the ...

"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.

The film is based on Andy Weir’s 2011 novel The Martian, which was then adapted into a screenplay for the 2015 movie by Drew Goddard. Watch this video on YouTube .

Barratt noted that the movie makes no attempt to simulate Martian gravity, which is 38 percent of Earth’s. But to him, that’s preferable to the fake-looking leaps depicted in a far less ...

Matt Damon plays stranded NASA astronaut Mark Watney in the movie "The Martian," which hit theaters in the United States on Oct. 2, 2015. (Image credit: 20th Century Fox/The Martian) ...

Scott’s breakout film, 1979’s Alien, was a sci-fi/horror mashup (before such cross-genre experiments were common) that pitted the small, working-class crew of a long-haul space freighter ...

Astronauts, engineers, and fans have praised the "The Martian," a bestselling sci-fi novel, for its scientific accuracy. So if you're making an equally realistic film adaptation, your spacesuits ...

Since then, NASA has successfully operated six other unmanned landing craft and vehicles on the Martian surface. This week, the space agency debuted its next generation mars rover, set to be ...