Adam Epstein

Perhaps the only thing that’s going to stop Donald Trump from becoming president of the United States is his new alter ego—”Donald Drumpf.”

The 88th Academy Awards air tonight on ABC in the United States at 8:30pm eastern time. While ratings have fluctuated in recent years, it’s still, usually, the most-watched American entertainment program of the year. In 2015, 37 million people watched the TV broadcast in the US. Increasingly, it has become an international affair as well—even though the majority of the nominees are white Americans.

On Tuesday, March 1, US astronaut Scott Kelly returns home after a year aboard the International Space Station (ISS). He traveled 144 million miles around the Earth (paywall). He performed 400 experiments. He posted 700 mesmerizing photos to Instagram.

One of the worst things about the Oscars are the acceptance speeches. Winners typically thank a laundry list of colleagues, friends, family members, publicists, managers, God, etc.

Who are the biggest contributors to sexual exploitation in the United States? Not who you’d expect.

Mankind’s artistic expression is too beautiful to be confined to our home planet. To that end, NASA is putting an art gallery on 101955 Bennu. No, that’s not the bizarre name of a Brooklyn warehouse. It’s an asteroid.

A Jewish community theater in Miami, Florida has canceled the performance of a play about Israel because it displeased some of its members.

“Boy, that sure is weird music.”

Are we alone in the universe? What is dark energy? These are two of the biggest mysteries of our universe, and NASA’s new space telescope hopes to answer them both.

Cable boxes might be about to get a whole lot better.

To find aliens, China has decided to uproot over 9,000 humans.

Apple is dipping its toes in the treacherous waters of television. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the company is bankrolling a new series starring hip hop star and Apple’s Beats co-founder Dr. Dre. The show is already filming in Los Angeles.

Yesterday (Feb. 11), scientists announced that they detected gravitational waves for the first time, confirming the final part of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. It was a momentous discovery, and one that could fundamentally change the way we understand the universe.

The last of the major premium TV networks has broken out of the cable bundle.

It’s not easy to launch a streaming service, even when you’re the most revered TV company in the world.

A bare bones layout, x-rated ads, unending legal issues, and a vast library of pirated movies and TV shows—that’s what the globally popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is known for.

Over 75% of Americans apparently watch the Super Bowl just for the ads, and about a dozen of those ads each year are for films. The cost and time limit of Super Bowl ads prevents film studios from airing full-blown, two-minute theatrical trailers—but there’s a lot you can squeeze into a 30-second or one-minute TV spot. When you have the chance to promote your movie in front of hundreds of millions of eyeballs, you take it.

Awkward social situations are Larry David’s bread and butter. The comedian, who has cultivated a persona of irritability, hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend (Feb. 6), reprising his role as the sometimes-irritable US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The night’s best sketch—a parody of David’s HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm—involved David’s Sanders filling in for the fictionalized version of himself that he plays on Curb.

Despite the rise of cord-cutting and online streaming, the Super Bowl is still largely watched by Americans on TV. In fact, it’s the biggest viewing event in the United States—last year’s game on NBC drew 114 million viewers, making it the most-watched television broadcast in American history.

It took NASA’s Voyager I probe 35 years to reach the edge of our solar system and enter interstellar space. But a lot has changed in space technology since Voyager launched in 1977. NASA’s new space sail—propelled only by the sun—can make that same trip in 20 years.

If you’re one of the few people who remembers the middling 2000 science fiction film The 6th Day,  you may recall that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character uses a mirror that wishes him a happy birthday and tells him his schedule for the day. That was probably the coolest thing about the movie.

NBA superstar LeBron James might be surprised to learn that he does not “own” his myriad tattoos. Rather, his tattoos are, arguably, copyrighted material that belong to the original artists who made them—and now those artists want to ensure no one else can profit off the designs that are now permanently inked to LeBron’s biceps.

Here’s something you don’t see everyday: a famed theoretical physicist taking on a popular American actor in an epic chess match. But it’s not any old game of chess—this is quantum chess. Normal chess is hard enough to master, but it becomes another beast entirely when you start applying the laws of quantum mechanics to the pieces.

What makes a Netflix show a Netflix show? The question has frustrated industry analysts and marketers for years. As Netflix now tries to take over the world, the matter appears to be settled once and for all: Netflix shows don’t have a “brand”—and that’s very much intentional.