1989

After announcing her tenth studio album Midnights at the 2022 Video Music Awards, Swift began teasing the track titles on TikTok a month later. Image: Catherine Powell (Getty Images)Taylor Swift is as much a force on TikTok as she is in music. The singer’s brand and relevance has only expanded across her nearly two-decade long career, and what sets her apart from many other artists (though certainly not all) is her uber-devoted fanbase—Swifties. Over the last few years, Swifties have been cultivating a raucous ecosystem…

An enormous asteroid four times the size of the Empire State Building will make a close approach to Earth on May 27, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).  Fear not: the asteroid, named 7335 (1989 JA), will soundly miss our planet by about 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) – or nearly 10 times the average distance between Earth and the Moon.Still, given the space rock's enormous size (1.1 miles, or 1.8 km, in diameter) and relatively close proximity to Earth, NASA has classified the…