NASA’s New Horizons probe is taking a long nap as it prepares to meet up with a distant icy space rock

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft — which famously flew by Pluto in the summer of 2015 — is going to sleep for a little while as it speeds toward its next destination at the edge of the Solar System. On April 7th, the vehicle went into hibernation, a mode in which most of its instruments are […]

‘Ghost in the Shell’ Spoiler Review: A Cold, Distant, and Familiar Future

(In our Spoiler Reviews, we take a deep dive into a new release and get to the heart of what makes it tick…and every story point is up for discussion. In this entry: Rupert Sanders’ Ghost in the Shell.) Ghost in the Shell sometimes feels more preoccupied with how characters are framed than what they’re doing and […]

Hubble telescope finds black hole shot out of a distant galaxy

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have observed a supermassive black hole with a mass one million times that of our Sun hurtling away from its parent galaxy. It’s the first confirmed case out of several suspected “runaway black holes,” which required an immense amount of energy to get launched from the center of its […]

US to send F-35s to MidEast to fight ISIS in ‘not too distant future’

The US Air Force is mulling deploying F-35 fighter jets to the Middle East to step up efforts in battling Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) terrorists sometime in the future, although the specific date is not set yet. The deployment could take place in “not so distant future,” General Herbert J. “Hawk” Carlisle, the outgoing […]

Final Fantasy Distant Worlds concert returns to London after THREE years

Final Fantasy Distant Worlds is finally coming back to London after a lengthy absence. The official orchestra for the Square Enix JRPG series will be performing at the Royal Albert Hall this November. It comes three years after the last Distant Worlds concert, held in the capital on November 2014. The concert will be held […]