Articles

Why After Earth Bombed: Six Theories
Why was the Will Smith sci-fi flick a failure?

Albert Einstein Discovers New Planet. Really.
An obscure Einsteinian theory known as relativistic beaming bears new fruit

A Magical Opening for Now You See Me. And Will Smith? Now You Don’t
The illusionists' caper finishes a strong second behind Furious 6, while After Earth crash-lands with its star and his son

Friday Flicks: Are Will and Jaden Smith Out of This World in After Earth?
TIME breaks down which films to see and which to avoid this weekend.
Moon-Toting Giant Asteroid 1998 QE2 Will Buzz by Earth
[time-brightcove videoid=2423692087001] We constantly fret about external threats and foreign attacks -- but its an entirely other level of concern when the...
Photo Essays

The Space Sorority: Fifty years of Women in Orbit
The first man on the moon was a character in popular culture decades—even centuries, perhaps—before Neil Armstrong actually filled the role. The assumption was...

LIFE at Lascaux: Early Color Photos From Another World
The story is so improbable, so marvelous, that it feels more like the remnant of a dream, or a half-remembered myth, rather than something that unfolded within...
Time.com Specials
Family Ties: 10 Movies with Father-Child Stars
Will and Jaden Smith's After Earth is the latest movie to treat its stars' nepotism as a selling point

Top 10 Google Earth Finds
Columbus and Magellan had it rough. Exploration these days is quite literally an armchair activity, as high-resolution satellite images and tools like Google...


