BLACKSBURG, Va., March 18 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
The brand-new science fiction movie "Project Hail Mary" hinges on an alarming scenario. The story imagines a strange cosmic phenomenon that drains our sun's energy, causing the temperatures on Earth to plummet toward an ice age within a few decades. Ryan Gosling portrays a scientist who travels light years in search of a cure for the problem.
In reality, our sun has quite a few years of stable life left - more than 5 billion, said Virginia Tech astrophysicist Nahum Arav.
"The Sun is a 4.6-billion-year-old star containing 99.9 percent of the total mass of the solar system," Arav said. "It will continue to s...