Among those bits and bobs in the case of Project Hail Mary is the sci-fi novel of the same name by Andy Weir, who also wrote the book that served as the source material for Ridley Scott’s The Martian.

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A newly developed model defines the upper limit to the strength of planetary magnetic fields. The model can help better ...