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While he and Damon are both in fine form here, it’s ultimately Weir’s genius that their work preserves. I prefer aliens with my sci-fi thank you, and although The Martian obviously fits in the genre, it takes its cues mostly from the school of drama (and sometimes,...

Matt Damon’s action-packed film career is highlighted by clashes with various opponents-trained assassins, Nazis, Boston cops, witches, the All Blacks, deadly viruses-but he has never gone up against an entire planet.

From the chamber piece of the first half, The Martian becomes a more traditional bring-our-heroes-home kind of film. Politics and public relations also intrude, as hard-nosed NASA chief Teddy Sanders (Jeff Daniels) considers the very real possibility that a failed rescue bid...

I was so happy to leave Mars. There’s technology, as he eventually begins to communicate with Earth. Watch his full review in the video above.

But rather than being abandoned on an ice floe or desert island, the film’s protagonist, Mark Watney (Matt Damon), is marooned on the desolate planet Mars, roughly 225 million kilometres from home. If nothing else, The Martian will leave you with an inspirational outlook in...

What did you mean by that? (Daniels is as insufferable here as he was on The Newsroom, so I checked to see if Aaron Sorkin had a hand in the admittedly strong script; it’s actually by longtime Joss Whedon associate Drew Goddard).

Thanks to a great cast, especially a likeable Matt Damon, it manages to inspire hope in our space program, which may not even be close to sending folks that deep into space, but maybe this is a preview of what we can expect to see – minus the accidentally stranding one of...

Damon is perfectly cast to play a smart-alecky Everyman, which is how he’s presented in the Andy Weir best-seller upon which the movie is based.

When news “broke” about the discovery of liquid water gushing over the slopes of Mars this week, the world went Red Planet insane… And they believe that’s something we have to be very mindful of.

It’s a handy promotional tool for Ridley Scott’s The Martian.

NASA’s Curiosity rover, a car-sized robot decked out with cameras and environmental sensors, has offered scientists and the public fascinating insights on Mars since it landed on the red planet in August 2012. The Curiosity Rover probe is now exploring the surface of Mars...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took this image of Pluto with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 13, 2015.

“It was the hottest June on record”, said Jessica Blunden, NOAA climate scientist.

That was borne out by a lack of a single impact crater on the surface in the image, the scientist said. That means that region of the planet may still be geo-logically active today.

Taken at a height of 12,500km above the planet it shows complex surface features including plains and mountain ranges. It looked like a fuzzy blob in our best telescopes.