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“Project Hail Mary” salutes its ancestors without ripping them off—alluding to “Arrival,” “E.T.” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”—but it is also, excitingly, a fresh story with bold aspirations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the prospects of extraterrestrial life in its ocean."

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

Most excitingly, this was just the first of exciting exoplanet news to take hold over the year.

From Salon • Dec. 22, 2023

Portugal bids farewell to the tournament against Fiji, which - excitingly for the neutral - still has plenty to offer in this Rugby World Cup.

From Washington Times • Oct. 7, 2023

Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson