Technician Emory Toomey installs a navigation camera on NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft in a cleanroom

NASA’s Dragonfly Just Simulated the Hardest Flight It Will Make on Titan

NASA’s Dragonfly has completed its most comprehensive simulated flight yet, rehearsing the autonomous decisions it will need to reach Titan’s surface safely.

Artist’s concept of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory orbiting above Earth

NASA Ends Swift Observatory After Nearly 22 Years of Chasing Cosmic Explosions

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has ended its nearly 22-year mission, leaving behind a vast public archive and a rapid-response model that reshaped astronomy.

Nintendo Switch 2 console in handheld mode with blue and orange Joy-Con 2 controllers

Modern Warfare 4 Brings Call of Duty Back to Nintendo After 13 Years

Modern Warfare 4 launches on Switch 2, ending Call of Duty’s 13-year Nintendo absence and putting Microsoft’s day-and-date platform promise to its first real test.

Deborah Ann Woll speaking into a microphone at GalaxyCon Raleigh in 2024

The Cycle Gives Deborah Ann Woll a Horror Mystery Built to Hide Its Monster

The Cycle sends Deborah Ann Woll into a forensic cold case that turns into creature horror, testing whether its family mystery can survive the monster.

Brendan rides a horse through a sunlit forest as Prue stands beside her bicycle in Wildwood.

Wildwood’s Puppets Have Tiny Mechanical Bodies and a Hospital

A puppet hospital, spring-steel hands and animatable muscles: a look at the miniature engineering behind LAIKA’s Wildwood.

Four NASA leaders seated at the Artemis Acceleration briefing with a Moon graphic behind them

NASA’s 2028 Moon Landing Now Has Two Very Different Paths

NASA is keeping SpaceX and Blue Origin in contention for its first Artemis Moon landing. Their two flight plans could not be more different.

Catherine Breed wearing a wetsuit, swim cap and goggles aboard her support boat, with the ocean behind her.

She Swam Nearly 900 Miles. Sewage Kept Her Finish Offshore

Catherine Breed completed a nearly 900-mile staged swim down California on October 19. Sewage pollution near the border shaped her offshore finish.

Louis Daguerre’s view of Boulevard du Temple, with a standing customer and a smaller shoeshiner figure near the lower-left street corner.

Finding Where Two Strangers Stood in This 1838 Photo Took Two Years

Two tiny figures in Louis Daguerre’s famous 1838 photograph sent filmmakers on a two-year hunt through old maps and modern 3D scans. Paris now marks their spot.

Composite promo image of Bryce Harper in a Phillies uniform beside the masked Doctor Doom.

Doomsday’s Baseball Promo Had Viewers Asking What Was Actually in the Movie

Reed Richards takes the mound in Marvel’s World Series crossover, while real MLB stars leave some viewers wondering which bits belong in Doomsday.

A grizzly bear at the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center walks past a fallen log, rocks and yellow flowers.

A Trash Can Was Designed to Keep Bears Out. Kobuk Figured Out the Latch.

A guarded lever was meant to keep bear paws out. Kobuk used his claws and a twist of his body to open it, revealing the ingenuity behind bear-resistant gear tests.

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