Black-and-white frame from the 1897 Georges Méliès film showing the Pierrot automaton beside its workshop sign; photographed from the recovered 35mm print.

An 1897 Georges Méliès Film of a Magician Fighting an Automaton Turned Up in Old Reels

A fragile 45-second Georges Méliès short survived in a family collection of old reels. The Library of Congress identified it, restored it, and made the film viewable in 4K.

Paul Bettany wearing glasses and a dark jacket, speaking into a microphone at Los Angeles Comic Con 2025.

Paul Bettany Was Told His Career Was Over—Then Joss Whedon Called About Vision

Paul Bettany says a producer told him his career was over. He walked onto Sunset Boulevard, wondered if it was true—and then got a call asking him to play Vision.

Hugh Grant greets fans at the Heretic premiere in Paris in November 2024.

Hugh Grant Turned Down $750,000 an Episode to Replace Charlie Sheen, Chuck Lorre Says

Chuck Lorre says Hugh Grant came close to replacing Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men, with a reported $750,000-per-episode offer and one major concern: the live studio audience.

Actor Joe Manganiello speaks onstage at a True Blood panel at Comic-Con International in 2010.

Ben Affleck’s Canceled Batman Movie Had Deathstroke Kill Gordon and Take Alfred Hostage, Joe Manganiello Says

Joe Manganiello’s memoir describes Ben Affleck’s unmade Batman film as a revenge thriller: Deathstroke would target Gordon, abduct Alfred and nearly kill Batman and Batgirl.

Rosalind Franklin looking through a microscope in a 1955 archival photograph.

Rosalind Franklin Saw DNA’s Helical Pattern in Photo 49—Then Made Photo 51 a Better-Framed Repeat

A new history-of-science study says Franklin had already calculated key features of DNA’s helical pattern from Photo 49. Photo 51 was her planned, clearer repeat—not a sudden clue she failed to understand.

Hubble image of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 1827, with a rusty dust lane crossing its bright disk

Hubble’s Edge-On View of NGC 1827 Turns a Pretty Galaxy Into a Cosmology Test

Hubble’s new edge-on portrait of NGC 1827 reveals dust lanes, young stars and a survey testing cosmology’s small-galaxy predictions.

Sunlit Falcon 9 exhaust forms a glowing jellyfish-shaped plume above silhouetted trees after the SpaceX CRS-35 launch

That Glowing “Space Jellyfish” Was a Falcon 9 Carrying the ISS’s Next Experiments

A Falcon 9’s sunlit exhaust made a giant predawn “jellyfish” while Dragon carried more than 6,300 pounds of science and hardware to the ISS.

Official ESA/Hubble artist’s concept of a possible gas giant orbiting a white dwarf, with a bright debris disk and escaping material; illustration, not an observed photograph.

Astronomers Think a Dead Star May Be Making a New Planet—Thanks to 1999 Hubble Data

A 25-year-old Hubble puzzle may point to a gas giant forming from the debris of a star’s death. The planet is still a candidate, but the clue is remarkable.

Four adult survivors stand at the edge of a snowy forest looking toward a distant town at dawn.

Yellowjackets’ Final Season Makes the Rescue Look Like the Beginning of the Nightmare

The new Yellowjackets final-season teaser turns the team’s rescue into the beginning of the cover-up that will haunt them for decades.

An original gothic heroine overlooks 1499 Paris as an impossible dark castle rises beyond the city.

Castlevania Returns to 2D After 13 Years—And the Genre It Helped Name Has Moved On

Castlevania returns to side-scrolling action after 13 years, but Belmont’s Curse must compete with a genre transformed by the series’ descendants.

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