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Werner Herzog narrated a documentary about space—and talks to Ars about it

Could humans eventually fly to exoplanets on massive “generational” spaceships? Last Exit: Space explores such a hypothesis with intriguing and sometimes darkly hilarious results. Last Exit: Space is a new documentary on Discovery+ that explores the possibility of humans colonizing planets beyond Earth. Since it is produced and narrated by Werner Herzog (director of Grizzly […]

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Disgraced Pastor Carl Lentz’s Mistress Calls Affair ‘Toxic’ In New Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed Trailer

Carl Lentz and Hillsong Church are going under the microscope. The megachurch that once boasted a celebrity roster including Justin and Hailey Bieber , Chris Pratt , Vanessa Hudgens , Kevin Durant , Bono , and more has had a steep fall from grace in recent years. In 2020, popular pastor Lentz was ousted from […]

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Ant Anstead & Renée Zellweger Are Instagram Official — ‘Finally’!

Ant Anstead and Renée Zellweger have gone Instagram official — and it’s with a picture from the moment they met! The British TV host took to the ‘gram on Monday to celebrate the release of his new Discovery+ series Celebrity IOU: Joyride, and he couldn’t help but gush about the first episode’s leading lady in […]

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Selma Blair In Remission From Multiple Sclerosis After Being ‘Told To Make Plans For Dying’!

This is such good news! Selma Blair is finally in remission after a devastating multiple sclerosis flare-up, one that was literally “killing” her. She opened up about the difficult health battle she’s faced since getting diagnosed with the chronic immune disease in 2018 while participating in a Discovery+ Television Critics Association panel on Monday, sharing: “My […]

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Jackass Star ‘MANGLED’ By Shark In Wakeboard Stunt Gone Wrong!

Wow, this is one of the worst Jackass injuries ever, and it wasn’t on MTV, it wasn’t in one of the movies… it was on the freakin’ Discovery channel! As part of this year’s Shark Week celebration, the science-devoted channel tried something a little different, letting the Jackass crew join them for a special, complete with idiotic and dangerous […]

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Renée Zellweger & Ant Anstead’s Surprising Summer Romance Is Perfect: They Just ‘Click’!

Adorable! Renée Zellweger and Ant Anstead made headlines last week when everyone learned the seemingly separate celebs were dating! Despite the somewhat random pairing, sources are now spilling all the deets on this new couple, and it sounds like it just WORKS! Related: Kim Kardashian Causes Stir With ‘Disrespectful’ Outfit At The Vatican! Talking to […]

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AT&T to spin off WarnerMedia, basically admitting giant merger was a mistake

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) AT&T today announced it will spin off WarnerMedia—including HBO and Warner Bros.—into a new company, less than three years after AT&T bought Time Warner Inc. for $108 billion. AT&T said it struck a deal with Discovery, Inc. to combine WarnerMedia and Discovery’s assets into a “standalone global entertainment company.” […]

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Lego has a new 2,354-piece NASA Space Shuttle set, and it’s awesome

Lego’s latest official NASA set is this massive model of space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-31. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ]   The ongoing collaboration between Lego and NASA continues to delight. Back in 2017, the Danish toymaker brought out a highly detailed Saturn V—a model ably assembled in time lapse by Ars’ Eric Berger before […]

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Discovery’s Moonshiners Star Lance Waldroup Dead At 30

Sad, sad news. Lance Waldroup, who appeared in over 50 episodes of Discovery’s docuseries Moonshiners, passed away February 25. He was just 30 years old. While no cause of death has been revealed, his obituary stated he died in his North Carolina home. On Monday, the network shared a heartfelt post to the late star […]

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JonBenet Ramsey’s Father Hopes New Evidence In Documentary Will ‘Keep The Case Alive’

Will this case ever really go away? JonBenét Ramsey‘s family hopes not — at least not until the truth is discovered. The eyes of the entire world turned to Boulder, Colorado in 1996 when the body of the 6-year-old beauty queen was discovered in her home the day after Christmas. Her skull had been fractured from […]