New Mexico Senator Calls Out Enduring Effects Of ‘Oppenheimer’ Nuke Test

The New Mexican desert where the Trinity test took place wasn’t exactly uninhabited, as Sen. Ben Ray Luján pointed out.

Star Trek: Discovery Prepares For One Last Ride In a New SDCC Clip

The end may be coming for Star Trek: Discovery—in March, word came that the series will wrap up in early 2024 after its fifth season—but plenty of thrills will be packed into its final mission. Thanks to San Diego Comic-Con, we have a new trailer that offers the best glimpse of season five’s treasure-hunt mystery…

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Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 4 Trailer Teases New Friends and New Adventures

San Diego Comic-Con has been very good to Star Trek in recent years, and even as Hollywood labor movements mean the franchise’s stars are sitting out of the action in Hall H this year, there was still plenty to be excited about in Star Trek’s new panel—like a long awaited first look at the return of Lower Decks.

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Holy Cow, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Is Doing a Musical Episode

Not to be outdone by last year’s Comic-Con announcement that Strange New Worlds would team up with Lower Decks for a crossover episode in season 2, this year the latest Trek series returned to San Diego to go one weirder: the Enterprise is getting downright lyrical.

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Surprise! Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Lower Decks Crossover Is Streaming Today

Thought you’d had enough Star Trek: Strange New Worlds this week? Think again. To not leave fans who didn’t directly beam into San Diego Comic-Con feeling left out today, Paramount has made the surprise move to drop the latest episode of the series—its highly anticipated crossover with Star Trek: Lower Decks—for…

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Pregnant Woman Fatally Shot, 4 Others Injured During Texas Birthday Party

“[She was] in school, trying to get a job. Trying to become something,” said the woman’s mother. “And she’s gone now.”

The 2023 Eisner Award Winners Are Here

The Eisner Awards awarded its 2023 winners last night at San Diego Comic-Con. While Image had the most total nominations, and DC the second-most, DC’s Nightwing won all three of the categories it was recognized for: Best Continuing Series, Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team, and Best Cover Artist. One of…

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People In Phoenix Are Getting Third-Degree Burns From Pavement As Heat Wave Fries City

Arizona’s capital has seen record-breaking high temperatures over the past few weeks.

The Most Awesome Cosplay of San Diego Comic-Con 2023, Day 2

It’s time to showcase io9’s favorite cosplays of the day at San Diego Comic-Con 2023.

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Jamie Lee Curtis Warns Comic-Con Crowd About Climate: ‘We’re F**king The World’

“I don’t care what side you’re on,” said Curtis. “It’s happening, and there are things we can do to ameliorate it and to try to stem the tide.”