But you don’t need to travel 20 trillion miles, like the crew of the Ark One (from SYFY's new show The Ark), or even 121 million miles to Mars, like Mark Watney, in order for space to come at ...

During the EVA, a piece of flying debris strikes astronaut Mark Watney and he disappears from view. Telemetry from his suit, being monitored inside the spacecraft, indicates that his suit pressure ...

The latest preview for Ridley Scott's star-studded space film features a more detailed look at Mark Watney figuring out how to survive and the rescue mission to save him. By Hilary Lewis Deputy ...

The ending of The Martian delivers a thrilling rescue, but a key scientific flaw stands out. The dramatic scene where Mark Watney punctures his suit to propel himself toward the spacecraft ignores ...

Matt Damon was chosen to play Mark Watney, putting him in somewhat the same type of situation as Tom Hanks had to play in 2000’s Cast Away: a person who is utterly, completely alone. Some of the ...

All alone in the unforgiving environment of Mars, astronaut Mark Watney finds himself confronting his extinction. His colleagues on the first manned expedition to the surface of the Red Planet ...

In the last two years alone, Hollywood has produced three major sci-fi space movies—and two of them star Matt Damon. The Martian, though, stands out from its predecessors in two ways: protagonist Mark ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "The Martian" hero Mark Watney survived all that the Red Planet threw at him, including ...

In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Bruce Bugbee: a real-life space botanist who says a one-way trip to Mars means a one-way trip to a meatless diet. Not surprisingly, he ...

The only difference between astronaut Mark Watney and me, is that he lost weight and I’ve gained it. It’s been seven weeks since I closed my firm’s physical office.