- + These Are All the Different Types of Eclipses—No one in human history has ever seen an eclipse quite like the one seen by the crew of Apollo 12 on Nov. 21, 1969. Countless billions of us have se...
- + The Challenge and Necessity of a Shared Reality—All animals, including humans, have limitations in how they find out about the world. And we humans invent instrumentation to correct for weaknes...
- + A Faster Spinning Earth May Cause Timekeepers to Subtract a Second From World Clocks—Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for...
- + How to Safely Watch the Total Eclipse—The first solar eclipse I had a chance to witness I in fact didn’t witness at all. It was July 20, 1963, and I was attending Camp Comet in W...
- + I Applied to Be a NASA Astronaut. You Can Too—Recently, I applied to become an astronaut. I would like to be able to say that there is a non-zero chance I will be accepted, but sub-zero is more li...
- + How Animals and Nature React to an Eclipse—Of all of the animals worth observing during a total solar eclipse, some of the most intriguing are humans. They stop what they’re doing; they s...
- + Auroras and a Worm Moon Eclipse: Celestial Events Light Up Sky Ahead of April Total Eclipse—Ahead of next month’s much-anticipated total solar eclipse , the night sky was illuminated late Sunday and early Monday by a flurry of other ce...
- + How Cities Around the U.S. Are Celebrating the Eclipse—I’ve never before heard the music of the Cleveland Orchestra. I’ve certainly never heard them perform the fourth movement from Motzart&rsq...
- + The ‘Devil Comet’ Will Be a Heavenly Co-Star During the Eclipse. Here’s What to Know—One of cosmic history’s greatest acts of photo-bombing will take place on April 8, when the great solar eclipse is unfolding across North Americ...
- + How to Find Solar Eclipse Glasses—and Spot Fake Ones—Jan Mars is so excited about the upcoming solar eclipse that she purchased 1,200 branded pairs of solar eclipse glasses for her clients and friends. ...
- + How to Find Solar Eclipse Glasses—And Spot Fake Ones—Jan Mars is so excited about the upcoming solar eclipse that she purchased 1,200 branded pairs of solar eclipse glasses for her clients and friends. ...
- + French Bulldogs Remain the Most Popular U.S. Breed. Many Fans Aren’t Happy—(NEW YORK) — French bulldogs. U.S. dog owners. C’est l’amour. Frenchies remained the United States’ most commonly regis...
- + China Launches Satellite to Explore Moon as Neighbors on Earth Worry About Rocket Debris—China launched a lunar satellite designed to play a critical role in its competition with the U.S. to be the leader in exploration of the moon. ...
- + U.N. Weather Agency Issues ‘Red Alert’ on Climate Change After Record Heat in 2023—GENEVA — The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming , citing record-smashing increases last year in gre...
- + The Spring Equinox Is Here. What Does That Mean?—Spring is almost here — officially, at least. The vernal equinox arrives on Tuesday, marking the start of the spring season for...
- + SpaceX Mega Rocket Test Flight Ends With Loss of Spacecraft—SpaceX ’s mega rocket blasted off on another test flight Thursday and made it farther than two previous attempts, but the spacecraft was lost as...
- + Watch: A Private Rocket in Japan Explodes Moments After Launch—Space One Co., a Japanese startup backed by Canon Inc., failed to send its first rocket to space, a major setback in efforts to join a booming market ...
- + Global Hot Streak Continues With February Breaking Several Temperature Records—WASHINGTON — For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world&...
- + First U.S. Lunar Lander in Decades Goes Silent After Stumbling on Touchdown—CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since the Apollo astronauts fell silent Thursday, a week after breaking a l...
- + Singapore to Build World’s Largest Facility to Boost Carbon-Removal Power of the Ocean—The Equatic Process, a novel carbon removal technology and one of the best inventions of 2023 , is getting a major scale-up, with the world’s l...
- + Where You Can Watch the Solar Eclipse—The big map in the little shop in Casper, Wyo., was drawing a lot of attention when I visited on Aug. 20, 2017. A solar eclipse was coming the next da...
- + Why We Have Leap Years—It would seem awfully hard to lose track of 0.24219 of a day. That not-inconsiderable amount adds up to five hours, 48 minutes and 20 seconds and if i...
- + The Odysseus Lunar Landing Brings NASA One Step Closer to Putting Boots on the Moon—Early this week, Facebook provided me with a sweet piece of serendipity when it served up a picture of the late Gene Cernan. I had taken and posted th...
- + A Private Lander Made a Historic Touchdown on the Moon—CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lander on Thursday made the first U.S. touchdown on the moon in more than 50 years, but managed just a weak sig...
- + Astronomers Find What May Be the Universe’s Brightest Object With a Black Hole Devouring a Sun a Day—CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart gro...
- + Climate Change Will Make Locust Outbreaks ‘Increasingly Hard to Prevent and Control’—Extreme wind and rain may lead to bigger and worse desert locust outbreaks, with human-caused climate change likely to intensify the weather pattern...
- + As the Ice Melts, Polar Bears Are Failing to Find Enough Food on Land—It’s not easy to swim 175 km (109 mi.) when you’re starving to death. It’s not easy either to try to survive when you’re shedd...
- + 2024 Marks an Important Year in NASA’s Search for Extraterrestrial Life—Not a lot of spacecraft have gone aloft with poetry etched on their sides. Actually, no spacecraft has ever gone aloft with poetry etched on its side&...
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