How Mark Wahlberg became the king of streaming

As theatrical releases decline, the 54-year-old actor has become the most bankable star on Netflix, Amazon and Apple—earning $20 million or more a movie—in a major paradigm shift of Hollywood economics. Inside the new A-Minus List.

Northern Lights alert: Why aurora could now suddenly spike

Forecasts of Northern Lights displays have been standard in the past few weeks, and the reason for that is last weekend’s fall equinox. In its wake, there could be a brief and spectacular aurora season, with geomagnetic storms generally becoming more intense than usual in the weeks surrounding the equinox. Around the fall equinox, the magnetic field of Earth and the solar wind align, a phenomenon known as the “Russell-McPherron Effect.”