Star Wars Announces Episode VIII

When humans touch down on an exoplanet they'll need some new tools—like NASA's prototype mining robot and the Z-2 suit made for Martian hiking trips.

Growing food in space is hard. Keeping a limited supply of water clean and drinkable is no easy task either. Here's how NASA is going to science meals for interplanetary travel.

There is no mapping app for deep space, at least not yet. If we're going to explore there we'll need new navigation tools. Here's how NASA is going to keep its rockets on target.

Technologically we may be close to sending astronauts to Mars, but is the human body ready for it? Dr. Camille Alleyne from the International Space Station Program describes how the six to eight month trip to Mars could cause vision impairment, muscle atrophy, and bone density loss, and she explains how scientists plan to counteract those issues.

No, he’s not Irish. Yes, he’s still alive. And no, he’s not engaged. “London Has Fallen” star Gerard Butler answers questions to the most common searches about him on the Internet.

Why don’t space shuttles float away? How do you know when to go to sleep? Astronaut Kjell Lindgren answers questions about life in space from a few intrepid kindergartners.

A look behind the scenes of the final stunt of the final Mythbusters show. Thanks for all the cool science nerdery, guys!

We go behind the scenes to show you how visual effects company Double Negative created the dark energy Zero Matter in ABC's "Agent Carter."

Got a vacation coming up this spring? WIRED has all the best apps you'll need for a fuss-free trip.

Captain America: Civil War trailer

Meet the tarsier, the wide-eyed staring contest champ of the animal world. Its eyes have evolved to be so enormous, it can’t even move them in its head. Which means you can say whatever you want to a tarsier and it can’t roll its eyes at you.

In 2014, startup Arx Pax made headlines with the Hendo Hoverboard. With some helpful input from Tony Hawk and others, now we have the Hendo Hoverboard 2.0, and Brent Rose just scored the first ride on it.

Two NASA astronauts take us on a tour of the T-38 plane, which can fly faster than the speed of sound and has been used to train astronauts since 1961.

Half-a-billion people store their files on Dropbox. But until recently, those were sitting in Amazon's cloud. Now Dropbox has cut out the middleman and built its own super servers, challenging the internet’s biggest cloud computing companies.

On a typical day, the average person checks their phone 85 times. In total, we spend about 5 hours on our phones each day. Here we explore the fine line between normal phone use and device addiction.

We brought a renowned Houston chef to NASA's Food Lab so he could try and provide a fine dining experience using only space food.

Acura's NSX hybrid supercar is capable of a blistering 191 mph but to make a car this fast, you have to build it slowly and precisely.

Not only have we never seen the Divergent movies, but no one we know has, either. (Seriously—we asked everyone!) So instead, we watched all the trailers we could, and made our best guesses as to what actually happens in these things.

Writer and director Jeff Nichols takes us through his three previous films and his upcoming film Midnight Special.

Mozido? Nutanix? We gave the Silicon Valley cast the names of real startups and asked them to guess what they do. This is NSFW, so put those headphones on.

The Fennec fox is the smallest, and arguably the cutest, fox on earth. Its enormous ears make it look like a cartoon character and help it hear prey and keep cool.

The $35,000 TESLA Model 3 is finally here. It is sleek, quick, more affordable and it's the most important car that Tesla has built.

At The Boss junket, Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Bell answer a Google Autocomplete interview together.

NASA astronauts Tim Kopra and Jeff Williams and European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake are currently living on board the International Space station and answer the internet’s most searched questions in the latest installment of WIRED’s Autocomplete Interview.

Trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Trap-jaw spiders may be tiny but their unusual jaws pack a serious and lightning fast punch. Researchers using high-speed cameras recently discovered how speedy and lethal the spiders' bite can be.

WIRED senior editor Peter Rubin learns the Foley ropes at Lucasfilm's new state-of-the-art sound lab.

Ice Cube takes WIRED's Autocomplete Interview, answering the world's most searched questions about himself.

Common takes WIRED's Autocomplete Interview, answering the most searched questions about him.

Canon's new ME20F-SH has bananas low-light capabilities. We shot some footage to show off its see-in-the-dark skills but be warned it'll cost you over $20K.

Ian Burkhart is paralyzed from the neck down, but thanks to an array of electrodes implanted in his brain he's able to swipe credit cards and play video games with his own hands.

Eve takes WIRED's Autocomplete Interview, answering the most searched questions about herself.

Here is everything you ever wanted to know about Star Wars' latest beloved droid. BB-8 goes to LAX to greet his very own BB-8 ANA Jet. ANA Star Wars plane: http://ana-sw.com/

Some would call David Rumsey a cartophile, while others may put it more bluntly and say he’s obsessed. Over 30 years he’s personally accumulated over 150,000 maps and he's just donated them all to Stanford University.

The age of virtual realty is here but augmented reality and its cousin mixed reality are making strides. WIRED senior editor Peter Rubin breaks down the new platforms.

The world's hottest startup isn't located in Silicon Valley–it's in suburban Florida. WIRED explores what Magic Leap's mind-bending technology tells us about the future of virtual reality.

It's 420, a day of unabashed weed revelry. But it's also 2016, and your regular pot smoking routine just won't cut it. Watch above to get all the apps you'll need to make this 420 the best 420 ever (that is, given it's legal where you are).

There are thousands of strains of weed. Cracking their genetic codes may be the key to transforming pot from a budding business to a high-flying industry and a cannabis analytics lab is trying to unlock the true potential of weed. Pictures by Preston Gannaway.

WIRED gets a tour from veteran Foley artist John Roesch of the Skywalker's custom built soundstage. Roesch reveals some of the strangest audio props that were used in films like 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit,' 'Back to the Future' and 'Braveheart’.

Former Stig, Ben Collins, goes head to head against Wired’s Transportation Editor Alex Davies in a go kart duel.

Pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg show WIRED around the enormous solar-panel covered wings of the Solar Impulse 2 plane and inside its cramped cockpit.

WIRED destroys a massive LEGO Super Star Destroyer.

We’ve all heard about the Gender Pay Gap, but how prevalent is it? Find out how women compare to men in workplace compensation and what we can do about the glass ceiling. Directed/Produced by Jared Neumark Animated by Yoriko Murakami and Kim Blanchette Shot by Mika Levin Written by Roya Rastegar Edited by Mike Russell

Civil War is a rock-’em-sock-’em stand-off that features no fewer than four massive fights and, even at 146 minutes, feels gargantuan but never over-stuffed. It’s a Captain America movie, yes, but it’s more about the struggle between consent and dissent.

A California startup is testing a fleet of delivery drones in the hope of deploying them to deliver blood in rural Rwanda.

WIRED takes ten seniors for a ride in a self-driving shuttle around UCSD's campus. How do they feel about this cutting edge technology? Directed and produced by Jared Neumark Shot by Benji Dell Sound by Kara Johnson Edited by Josh VanBurskirk Special thanks to Serving Seniors and Varden Labs

Hyperloop One successfully tested its propulsion system in the Nevada desert. It's an important step, but the journey to making the Hyperloop a reality has just begun.

The crew behind the snowboarding series Higher TV went to some incredible lengths to get footage of Jeremy Jones plunging down snowy cliffs in the Himalayas, Wyoming and Alaska.

Sony's pirate-themed adventure makes multiple references to another classic video game pirate.