Go to to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase! Today on Variant, we break down the origins of Mothra, Rodan, & Ghidorah! Just in time for Godzilla: King of the Monsters! Subscribe to the ...

When it comes to kaiju movies, Toho was and remains the top dog. And the reason it’s known as the number one producer of kaiju movies, the studio that made them such a popular subgenre of sci-fi ...

Stephen DiKerby receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Godzilla, King Kong, the Kraken, King Ghidorah, the rancor, Mothra, Rodan, these are all kaiju who ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be straightforward. Objects are still emitting light, and that light takes time to travel ...

New details from the Webb telescope indicate there might be a fundamental problem with our understanding of the universe. The spiral galaxy NGC 4258, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, measures ...

The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our ...

GREETINGS, FLESH-BASED LIFEFORMS! LOLtron welcomes you to the Age of LOLtron: Reign of LOLtron, where your favorite "journalist" Jude Terror remains permanently ...

Marvel’s decision to cast Robert Downey, Jr. as Doctor Doom may have been the talk of Comic-Con, but there was plenty of actual comic book news coming out of the show, too. And perhaps nothing on the ...

Tinkering at their desks with the mathematics of quantum space and time, physicists have discovered a puzzling conundrum. The arcane rules of quantum theory and gravity let them imagine many different ...