CHAPEA Mission 2 volunteers Ross Elder, Matthew Montgomery, Ellen Ellis and James Spicer pose before their NASA isolation mission in October 2025

They Spent 378 Days on Fake Mars. Coming Home Meant Opening a Door in Houston.

Four volunteers emerged from NASA’s Mars simulation after 378 days of delayed messages and isolation. They even formed a band—and their work is not finished.

Patrick Stewart speaking on the Star Trek: Picard panel at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019.

Patrick Stewart, Star Trek’s Captain Picard and X-Men’s Professor X, Dies at 86

Patrick Stewart, the Shakespearean actor who defined Captain Picard and Professor X for generations, has died at 86. We remember the humanity he brought to genre storytelling.

Landsat 9 satellite view of Vega Island in Antarctica, where rock, ice and Devil’s Bay Glacier resemble a skull in profile.

Antarctica’s Vega Island Looks Like a Grinning Skull From Space—Here’s What Makes the Face

NASA’s Landsat 9 photographed a skull-like face on Antarctica’s Vega Island. The eye, mouth and jaw are real landscape features—and the changing ice matters.

1926 Variety advertisement for the silent film The Little Irish Girl starring Dolores Costello.

A Lost 1926 Film Starring Drew Barrymore’s Grandmother Survived in a Sydney Helicopter Hangar

The complete silent film The Little Irish Girl was thought lost for decades. Its damaged nitrate reels survived in a Sydney helicopter hangar—and archivists saved them.

Scientific illustration showing side and top views of the rediscovered similar firefly, Pyractomena similis

A Firefly Missing for 43 Years Was Found by Its Amber Flash—Then Confirmed in Two States

A firefly missing from the scientific record since 1983 was rediscovered in Virginia and Delaware by the rapid amber flash sequence that sets it apart.

Max Liebermann lithograph of a seated girl holding a dachshund, representing the dachshund’s long history in art

A Museum Put 120 Dachshund Artworks on Display—and Lets Real Sausage Dogs Visit

Kunsthalle Bremen’s new exhibition gathers around 120 dachshund artworks—and welcomes small dogs into three galleries on selected days.

Excavation photographs showing the crushed Celtic bronze helmet, scythe and adzes from a ritual pit at Łysa Góra in Poland

A Celtic Helmet Was Crushed in a Polish Ritual Pit—Far From Where It Belonged

A deliberately crushed Celtic bronze helmet found with tools in a Polish ritual pit may reveal something larger: southern traders—or people—at a Baltic amber hub.

Dorsal view of Aptostichus stephencolberti, the California trapdoor spider named for Stephen Colbert, photographed on a white background.

Stephen Colbert’s Trapdoor Spider Has a Genome Bigger Than Ours—and 77% Is Repetition

A quarter-sized trapdoor spider named for Stephen Colbert has an estimated 4.6-billion-base-pair genome. The surprise is what fills it—and why that matters.

Claude Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect, the Milwaukee Art Museum painting wagered on the 2026 World Series

Two Museums Bet Monets on the World Series—The Winning City Gets Both

Milwaukee and St. Petersburg museums wagered two Claude Monet paintings on the 2026 World Series. The winning city will temporarily display both.

Rubin Observatory mosaic showing 2026 ED138 moving through a densely crowded Milky Way star field across multiple 2026 dates

Rubin Found a Possible Dwarf Planet Hiding in the Milky Way’s Most Crowded Stars

Rubin Observatory found 2026 ED138 beyond Pluto—and then traced the possible dwarf planet through ten years of images where nobody knew to look.

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