- + What to Know About the Winter Solstice—The winter solstice is Saturday, bringing the shortest day and longest night of the year to the Northern Hemisphere—ideal conditions for holiday...
- + Three-Quarters of the Earth Has Gotten Permanently Drier—Of the eight planets and 293 moons that call our solar system home, only Earth has a surface that sloshes with liquid water. Roughly 71% of the fa...
- + Trump Picks Billionaire Who Did the First Private Spacewalk with SpaceX to lead NASA—CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A tech billionaire who bought a series of spaceflights from Elon Musk ‘s SpaceX and conducted the first private ...
- + How Science Can Drive Global Solutions—From powering a cleaner planet to unlocking the mysteries of space, three visionaries at Monday’s TIME100 Talks in London explored a crucial cha...
- + Earth Bids Farewell to Its Temporary ‘Mini Moon’—CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging along as a “mini moon” ...
- + SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Launch Ends With Scrapped Effort to Catch Booster—SpaceX on Tuesday launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching the booster with giant mechanical arms. Unlike last month’s su...
- + The World’s Freshwater Resources Drop to Troubling Low—It’s not easy to lose track of Lake Erie. It’s harder still to lose track of two and a half Lake Eries, but that’s more or less what...
- + Why This Alaskan Town Will Experience 64 Days of Darkness—In the town of Utqiaġvik, Alaska, the winters can be particularly brutal. The average temperature of the northernmost town in the U.S. in Decembe...
- + How to See the ‘Beaver’ Supermoon—the last of 2024—The fourth and final supermoon of 2024—known as the “beaver moon”— will hit this month. The moment of the full moon wil...
- + Inside Capitol Hill’s Latest UFO Hearings—Americans had a pandemic on their minds back in 2020 when then-President Donald Trump signed a $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that stimulated th...
- + You Won’t Want to Miss the Leonid Meteor Shower. Here’s How and When You Can See It—WASHINGTON — It’s a treat to see a supermoon. But that bright glowing orb will still be almost full when the Leonid meteor shower peaks th...
- + Here’s What Trump’s Win Means for NASA—If history is any guide, President-elect Donald Trump will be placing a phone call to the moon sometime within the next four years. That’s the w...
- + Why Risky Wildfire Zones Have Been Increasing Around the World—More than 30 square miles and 130 structures have been put to the torch in southern California as a wildfire fed by Santa Ana winds enters its third...
- + It’s Time to Redefine What a Megafire Is in the Climate Change Era—The Hawaiian town of Lahaina did not know what hit it in August 2023, when a wildfire cut a path of death and destruction from the center of the com...
- + 4 Astronauts Return to Earth After Being Delayed by Boeing’s Capsule Trouble and Hurricane Milton—CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Four astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after a nearly eight-month space station stay extended by Boeing’s caps...
- + The Elegance and Awkwardness of NASA’s New Moon Suit, Designed by Axiom and Prada—The first time NASA unveiled a new spacesuit, President John Kennedy was in attendance. It was 1961, and Kennedy had traveled to Cape Canaveral for an...
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