CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Now it’s the moon’s turn to put on a disappearing act. After being left out of this month’s total solar eclipse, the Americas will have the best seats in the celestial house when Earth’s shadow briefly envelops the moon. Almost the entire lunar surface will be masked from Thursday night through … Read more
A crocodile lies motionless in shallow water near a colony of nesting birds, with most of its body underwater, so the only thing a passing egret sees is what looks like a floating log with some sticks on top. The bird, looking for twigs to build its nest, reaches out to grab one. The trunk … Read more
A road junction in Sendai, Japan, in the early 1990s. The traffic light turns red, a line of cars stops, and a crow appears on the road just in front of a front tire. He drops a nut, then flies back to the sidewalk and waits. The light turns green, a tire passes over the … Read more
Massive Hail Becomes More Common in Warmer Climate We at The Weather Channel are used to seeing hail damage to homes, but imagine a hail the size of an Xbox crashing through your roof. Ice bombs are called megacryometeors; in other words, large icy rocks fallen from the sky. They may have small ice bubbles … Read more
The desert sands of Egypt have been dry for thousands of years. However, as difficult as it is to imagine now, much of that desert was once submerged beneath a sea that covered much of the northern perimeter of the African continent. Nor was it a dead sea; Evidence suggests that, during the Cretaceous period, … Read more
We all know that a dropped or shaken can of soda carries the risk of causing a fizzy rash. People use different techniques to prevent these bubbly explosions, including tapping the top of the can. This advice has been bandied about for years, but does it really work? The answer lies in the physics of … Read more
2026-08-22T10:05:12.444Z Where will the partial lunar eclipse be visible on August 27-28? The partial phase of a lunar eclipse captured over Canada in 2025. (Image credit: Photo by Chen Shaojin/VCG via Getty Images) The good news is that, unlike a solar eclipse, a lunar eclipse can be seen from anywhere the moon is above the … Read more
China is set to launch its Chang’e-7 unmanned robotic space mission, possibly as soon as Monday morning, to search for water ice in the permanently shadowed craters of the moon’s south pole. This is China’s seventh and most ambitious lunar mission so far. Here’s what we know about it. What do we know about Chang’e-7? … Read more
China is about to launch Chang’e-7, its most technologically complex lunar mission to date, in its search for reserves of frozen water in permanently shadowed craters near the moon’s south pole. The unmanned mission, named after a mythical Chinese moon goddess, will include deploying a robotic lander, a rover and a “jump” probe to one … Read more
Artemis II mission makes history with lunar flyby, historic distance The Artemis II mission to the moon makes a historic lunar flyby, pushing the boundaries of human deep space travel. The crew will soon surpass Apollo 13’s flight distance record, becoming the furthest humans from Earth. NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick emphasizes this mission as a … Read more