Author: Anya Wassenberg

Did #NASA discover an alien megastructure star more than 1,400 light years away? That’s the intriguing question brought up by findings from its Kepler Mission after observing a distant star over a four year period. NASA’s Kepler Mission is an observatory mission with the express purpose of finding earth-like planets outside our solar system. As such, it observed a star called KIC 8462852 — aka Tabby’s Star — for four years between 2009 and 2013. KIC 8462852 is what is known as an “F-type” star, located in the constellation called Cygnus in the Western tradition.

Read more at: http://us.blastingnews.com/news/2016/09/alien-life-did-nasa-find-a-death-star-in-a-distant-galaxy-001111813.html

Supergirl #1 tells the first part of the “Reign of the Cyborg Superman” saga.Kara Danvers, average American teen and aka Supergirl, has to get her homework done on time even as she’s saving the universe as a superhero. In this outing, she has to face the past in the form of the menacing figure of Cyborg Superman — her father.

Read more at: http://us.blastingnews.com/showbiz-tv/2016/09/supergirl-1-and-the-success-of-the-dc-comics-rebirth-series-001105957.html

Footballers (or soccer players if you’re North American) have to be supremely athletic to cover the 110 to 120 yards (100 to 110 meters) of the soccer pitch, all the while going for the ball or dodging other players. It’s not so surprising that the aggressive spirit that it takes to excel at the game sometimes boils into hits that are more violent than they should be, confrontations between players on the pitch, and other assorted bad behavior.

Read more at: http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/most-shocking/the-15-biggest-a-holes-in-the-soccer-world/

In the movies, good girls are dependable, but bad girls are the ones that have the most fun, it’s undeniable. Beautiful, yet dangerous, bad girls combine the twin obsessions of sex and death in one attractive package, drawing the men around them – often to their doom.

Read more at: http://www.therichest.com/expensive-lifestyle/entertainment/15-bad-but-hot-women-who-got-away-with-murder-in-movies/

New York City, the Big Apple – no matter what name it goes by, it’s an iconic city on the global stage with landmark buildings and structures that are recognized around the world. Maybe that’s what makes so many movie directors long to blow it to smithereens.

Read more at: http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/most-popular/15-times-hollywood-destroyed-new-york-city/

Four #Marvel superheroes star in The Defenders TV series that brings togetherLuke Cage, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, and Iron Fist into one story planned to air on #Netflix in late 2017. Managing four ongoing storylines as they criss cross each other and then converge in a new series is a script writing juggling act.

Read more at: http://us.blastingnews.com/showbiz-tv/2016/08/marvel-netflix-four-superhero-stories-converge-in-the-defenders-2017-001081073.html

Ever since The Wrap posted a story on August 18 claiming that Zendaya would be playing Spidey’s love interest Mary Jane Watson in the upcoming third reboot of the Spider-Man series, there’s been a lot of buzz both for and against the casting choice. Specifically, the controversy has centered on the idea of using a biracial actress to play the ultimate girl next door character – a character who has previously always been portrayed as white. It was already known that Zendaya, whose background is African-American, German, and Scottish, was cast in Spider-Man: Homecoming, but her role was supposed to be that of a character called “Michelle.”

Read more at: http://us.blastingnews.com/showbiz-tv/2016/08/zendaya-stan-lee-and-the-mary-jane-watson-controversy-001080353.html

Who really ever thinks about roller coaster accidents? Certainly, not the millions of people who climb aboard roller coasters and other rides in the more than 400 amusement parks across the United States each year.

Read more at: http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/most-shocking/ranking-the-15-worst-roller-coaster-disasters-ever/

DownTown Mystic is the alter ego of songwriter Robert Allen, a New Jersey native with a penchant for rock in the classic –aka Americana/roots rock – vein. Rock ‘N’ Roll Romantic is the follow up to 2010’s well received Standing Still and 2013’s eponymous release, DownTown Mystic. The latter spent 10 months on the US Americana Radio Charts, with the single “Way To Know” going to #1 on the Roots Music Report Alt/Rock Song Chart.

Read more at: http://www.myentertainmentworld.ca/2016/08/downtown-mystic/

Harley Quinn and Deadshot of Suicide Squad fame will be hitting PS4 and Xbox One along with the silver screen soon as the two super villains join the #Video Game mayhem of Injustice 2. Who could be better suited for the dystopic universe of the NetherRealm Studios game than psychotic Harley Quinn and killer for hire Deadshot? Harley Quinn has entered the world of Injustice before but this is Deadshot’s first time to appear as a playable character in the series.

Read more at: http://us.blastingnews.com/tech/2016/08/harley-quinn-and-deadshot-join-injustice-2-new-trailer-001070341.html