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Elizabeth Olsen & Benedict Cumberbatch Kick Off Doctor Strange 2 Press Tour (Photos)

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ’ marketing is in full swing, with the movie set to hit theaters on May 6. The highly anticipated sequel will see audiences experience a Sam Raimi-directed adventure that brings fans across the vast Multiverse first introduced in Disney+’s Loki . Tom Hiddleston’s show isn’t the only series to have a direct effect on the film—the events of Olsen’s WandaVision will be a key part of the proceedings. At the end of WandaVision , the Scarlet Witch can be seen studying magic from the corrupted Darkhold spellbook. Not only that, but it seems she’s specifically looking for where her lost kids may have ended up. ADVERTISEMENT All the evidence points to Wanda’s pursuit of happiness being a key reason for the conflict in Multiverse of Madness , and she’ll be put up directly against Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange. While fans wait for the big blockbuster to arrive, new photos from Berlin show Benedict Cumberbatch, E...

NASA Dart Mission: NASA launches spacecraft to kick an asteroid off course | World News

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WASHINGTON: NASA is preparing a mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid -- a test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth. It may sound like science fiction, but the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) is a real proof-of-concept experiment, blasting off at 10:21 pm Pacific Time Tuesday (0621 GMT Wednesday) aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The goal is to slightly alter the trajectory of Dimorphos, a "moonlet" around 525 feet (160 meters, or two Statues of Liberty) wide that circles a much larger asteroid called Didymos (2,500 feet in diameter). The pair orbit the Sun together. Impact should take place in the fall of 2022, when the binary asteroid system is 6.8 million miles (11 million kilometers) from Earth, almost the nearest point they ever get. "What we're trying to learn is how to deflect a threat," NASA's top scientist Thomas Zuburchen said o...