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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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A cracked clay-faced performer reaches toward the viewer on a red-lit film set.

Clayface Is Turning DC’s Horror Experiment Into a Movie About Losing Your Face

DC’s Clayface movie is using a classic Batman villain to ask a very human horror question: what happens when the face everyone recognizes stops belonging to you?

A foggy old movie theater glows beneath its marquee while a shadow waits behind the screen.

The Horror Movie Theater Is Back in the Spotlight—and Its Empty Seats Are the Scariest Part

Horror works differently in a theater because the room becomes part of the scare. The next wave of genre movies is testing whether audiences still want to be frightened together.

Lanterns lead through an ancient moonlit forest toward a moss-covered stone burial mound.

The Oldest Fantasy Detours Still Know How to Surprise Us

The fantasy scenes readers remember most are not always the battles. Sometimes they are the eerie detours where a road, forest or burial mound seems to have its own agenda.

A vintage comic-style cosmic portal divides a starfield and bold superhero imagery.

Star Wars and Marvel Are Finally Crossing Over—and Kevin Smith Is Writing the Collision

Luke, Leia and Han are about to meet Avengers and Spider-Man in the first official Star Wars/Marvel crossover. Kevin Smith is writing the five-issue comic, turning a once-impossible fan question into an actual story.

An anonymous caped hero stands above a dramatic Art Deco city beneath a huge moon.

Superman Is Going Back to 1938—and DC Is Making His Newest Origin Story Adults-Only

Wes Craig’s new Superman comic returns to 1938 Metropolis, draws from the Golden Age and carries an Ages 17+ label. The surprise is how directly DC is putting innocence and menace in the same frame.

Two anonymous movie-star silhouettes stand beside a film camera and branching family tree.

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson May Be Half Brothers—and Now Hollywood Is Turning That Mystery Into TV

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson may be half brothers, and a new Apple TV comedy is using that uncanny real-life possibility as its starting point. The stranger story happened before the script.

A handheld gaming device opens onto a gothic cathedral, flanked by jungle ruins and stormy island cliffs.

Diablo IV Reaches Switch 2 With Two Expansions—and a Different Starting Line

Diablo IV: Age of Hatred Collection arrives on Switch 2 with the base game and both expansions. That changes the starting point, but leaves important port questions to test.

A yellow taxi bursts from an arcade cabinet onto a curling strip of film above a sunny, hilly city.

Netflix’s Crazy Taxi Movie Has One Big Challenge: Making the Next Fare Matter

Netflix and SEGA are developing a Crazy Taxi comedy. Its most interesting challenge is turning a brilliantly simple arcade loop into a story worth riding through.

A worn yellow jacket, framed photograph and steaming mug sit on a cabin porch beside three scratches in the railing.

Marvel’s Wolverine Launches With a Bigger Test Than Its Claws: Making Us Care About Logan

Insomniac’s launch interview puts Logan’s compassion beside his rage. Here is why that balance matters—and what early criticism tells us to watch for.

Two empty theater chairs hold a vampire-hunting journal, wooden stake and dark coat beneath a gothic stage backdrop.

Buffy and Angel Reunited at the Emmys—and Gellar Had the Perfect Line About That Canceled Revival

Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz reunited at the Emmys. One sharp joke acknowledged the Buffy continuation fans still do not have.