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Copyright Crezalyn Nerona Uratsuji/Getty Images 5 Tips for Surviving the Coming Blood Moon Total Lunar Eclipse
Wondering how to navigate this uncertain and chaotic time? Here are five tips for surviving eclipse season.
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NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko What Built the Dusty Red ‘Snowman’ Floating in Space?
When NASA’s New Horizons flew past Arrokoth on New Year’s Day 2019, it captured humanity’s most distant close-up of a primordial object.
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3I/ATLAS Why Did Comet 3I/ATLAS Get So Much Brighter After Flying Past the Sun?
3I/ATLAS will soon fade from view as it exits the solar system, but not before bowing out with one final display of its classic weird-o behavior.
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Photo: mikiell / Getty Images Humans Are Going Back to the Moon, but We Need to Know More About Moonquakes First
Landing on the wrong spot could be bad!
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A Canadian boreal forest. Photo: ED JONESED JONES/AFP via Getty Images Forests Are Steadily Creeping North, and That’s Not a Good Thing
The thing that’s pushing forests north is also destabilizing them.
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Laurent Emmanuel/Contributor/Getty Images The Moon Is Shrinking. Here’s What That Means for the Future.
The moon, it seems, is most definitely shrinking. And that means it’s going to be experiencing a lot more tectonic activity in its future.
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Nazarii Neshcherenskyi/Getty Images Did Volcanoes on Mars Erupt During the Last Days of the Dinosaurs?
While Earth was still in its dinosaur era and edging into mammal history, Mars still had volcanic activity in the Tharsis region.
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Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák This Comet Suddenly Started Spinning Backward Near the Sun, and Scientists Don’t Know Why
As Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák barreled toward the sun, it appeared to have stopped entirely… and then it flipped.
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Image credit: Trung Chenh Everything We Know About the Giant Fireball That Just Lit Up the Midwest Sky
If you were in the Midwest late Tuesday night and saw a bright streak tear across the sky, your eyes were working just fine.
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Space Frontier/Stringer/Getty Images Did NASA Find Life on Mars 50 Years Ago and Accidentally Kill It?
Back in 1976, NASA’s Viking Landers looked for life on Mars and came up empty. Today, a group of scientists thinks we accidentally killed it.
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Anand Purohit/Getty Images Something ‘Impossible’ Slammed Into Earth in 2023, and Scientists Have a Wild New Theory About It
The truth will depend on whether future detectors catch more neutrinos like this one.
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Photo: NASA NASA Time-Lapse Video Shows Drastic Virginia Landscape Change Over Just 9 Weeks
Nine weeks vanish in seconds, and yet so much changes. If that’s not a metaphor for life, I don’t know what is.
