2026-08-11T08:10:01.994Z Tomorrow is the day! Are you ready? After years of anticipation, the wait is almost over. Tomorrow, the moon’s shadow will cover the Earth, causing a total solar eclipse in parts of Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain. But you don’t have to be in the path of totality to enjoy the event. Millions more … Read more
The Perseid meteor shower peaks: When and where to catch a glimpse BBC Hundreds of meteors will soon paint the sky: Peak times and where to see them in Oregon KATU4 major celestial events that will dominate the night sky this week FOX WeatherThe Perseid meteor shower peaks this week. Here’s how to get the … Read more
Days after a huge fireball tore through the skies over New Zealand last month, Steve Wyn-Harris spotted a small black rock on the bare ground. The citizen astronomer was looking for remains of the meteor that had flown over the North Island. He bagged the rock but wasn’t too sure, as he says most finds … Read more
A parachute about 70 feet wide has to open faster than the speed of sound in the thin air of Mars. When the first images appear, you will need to quickly answer a simple question: is the canopy positioned as it should or is it crooked? A white parachute is much less useful for that. … Read more
The Perseid meteor shower streaks across the Bay Area sky in August 2020, as seen from the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland. The annual summer extravaganza will peak Wednesday night through Thursday. Courtesy of Rick Taft A dazzling summer meteor shower will peak on a moonless night this week, lighting up the night … Read more
The eclipse of August 21, 2017 was, in the specific sense that interests astronomers, a normal eclipse. It was complete in a narrow strip of the continental United States, from Oregon to South Carolina, and partial in the rest of the country. However, public interest in him was extraordinary. Tens of millions of people bought … Read more
Queensland researchers equipped five Australian magpies with small GPS trackers, hoping to map their movements and social relationships. The flock had other plans. Within about ten minutes, an untagged adult female was using her beak to work the harness of a juvenile. The tracker went off. Nearby, another magpie was helping a second bird marked … Read more
A river has my heart. It’s not the austere, black Thames winding through London, where I was born, but a lazy green one 5,000 miles away, where I spent my adolescence: the Blanco River in Texas. My maternal ancestors have dipped into its waters for generations, as I have on countless summer days. The Blanco … Read more
Open the mouth of a snapper lying on a fishmonger’s ice and, every so often, something looks back. Not a tongue. A pale, plated crustacean roughly the length of a thumbnail, wedged into the floor of the mouth on seven pairs of hooked legs, sitting exactly where the tongue should be and doing more or … Read more
Deep in the Amazon, while filming a National Geographic documentary series alongside actor Will Smith, a team of scientists stumbled onto something few ever see: an anaconda stretching a remarkable 7.5 meters. The jungle seldom gives up its secrets, but this discovery illuminated both the immense biodiversity of the rainforest and the growing threats pressing … Read more