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This Map Shows Exactly What You’ll See During April’s Eclipse From Everywhere in the United States

ByDoris Elín Urrutia

More than 300 million people in the US will see a partial eclipse on April 8, 2024.

photo of a green comet with a red nucleus and a blue tail, with stars and black sky in the backgroun...
Space

The Solar Eclipse May Include A Rare Comet If You Look In Just the Right Spot

ByKiona Smith

The comet might be bright enough to see with the unaided eye during the eclipse, but only if it erupts at the right time.

People watch a solar eclipse, in Santiago de Chile, Chile, 14 December 2020. A solar eclipse, partia...
Space

The Complete Guide To Avoiding Scams And Buying the Right Solar Eclipse Glasses

Space

Ghost Particles Could Help Untangle Quantum Gravity

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Eta Aquarids: This Spring’s Best Meteor Shower Is Peaking and You Cannot Miss It

April showers might bring May flowers, but May also brings a meteor shower.

ByKiona Smith
Gaming
New Starfield Update Will Finally Add These Widely Requested Features

Getting lost in Neon will be a thing of the past.

ByTrone Dowd
Space
Boeing Starliner Is Just Days Away From Its First Human Test Flight

All eyes are on Starliner.

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Just Detected A Rare ‘Relic’ of the Big Bang

They found just a few from almost 10 years of data.

ByThe Conversation and Doug Cowen
Space
This New Telescope Could Create the Greatest Space Movie of All Time

The world’s largest digital camera is epic, from its size to its ambitious movie.

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science
Inside the Quest To Darken Chile’s Atacama Desert Skies

Light pollution is threatening the future of astronomy. Can a new nationwide lighting standard make a difference?

ByAlexa Robles-Gil and Undark
Space
Whoa! The Webb Telescope Zoomed Way into the Iconic Horsehead Nebula

This dense cloud of interstellar gas is 3,000 light years away, but it looks close enough to touch.

ByKiona Smith
Science
Did Life on Earth Come From Space? A New Study Gives the Theory a Boost

The building blocks of life might form more easily in outer space.

ByThe Conversation and Christian Schroeder
Science
Inside the Quest to Confirm A Strange 60-Year-Old Theory About Stonehenge

Archaeological evidence suggests Stonehenge also aligns with moonrise and moonset.

ByThe Conversation, Erica Ellingson, Amanda Chadburn and Fabio Silva
Space
The Iconic Hubble Telescope Just Turned 34 And We Can’t Stop Staring At Its Birthday Snapshot

This pretty and puffy Nebula is more than what it seems.

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Stumbled On A Glistening Lava Lake On Jupiter’s Moon Io

Loki Patera is like no place on Earth.

ByKiona Smith
Space
A Dead Star in a Nearby Galaxy Just Did Something Wild

A massive star in M82 lived fast, died young, and left an extremely magnetic corpse.

ByKiona Smith
Science
Look! 3.7 Billion-Year-Old Rocks Reveal The Oldest Evidence of Earth’s Magnetic Field

Our planet was a different place when these rocks formed.

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space
Voyager 1 Just Sent Its First Coherent Message Back to NASA In Months

A clever programming fix has cured the spacecraft's electronic aphasia.

ByKiona Smith
Space
Look Up! April’s Full Pink Moon Is Finally Here

Blue Moons aren't really blue, and the Pink Moon isn't really pink, but at least the full Moon is really full.

ByKiona Smith
Space
Physicists Just Mapped A Stellar, Galactic Burp of Astronomical Proportions

“That’s a lot of gas!”

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Eta Aquarids: This Spring’s Best Meteor Shower Is Peaking and You Cannot Miss It

ByKiona Smith

April showers might bring May flowers, but May also brings a meteor shower.

Space

Boeing Starliner Is Just Days Away From Its First Human Test Flight

ByDoris Elín Urrutia

All eyes are on Starliner.

Health

This Ancient Diet Goes Against Everything We Know About Early Humans

ByElana Spivack

Thousands of years before agriculture, one group of people was eating a lot of plants.

Detox

The Inside Scoop on How America Became Obsessed With Protein

ByElana Spivack

And how much protein humans actually need.

Science

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Just Detected A Rare ‘Relic’ of the Big Bang

ByThe Conversation and Doug Cowen

They found just a few from almost 10 years of data.

Space

This New Telescope Could Create the Greatest Space Movie of All Time

ByDoris Elín Urrutia

The world’s largest digital camera is epic, from its size to its ambitious movie.

Science

Inside the Quest To Darken Chile’s Atacama Desert Skies

ByAlexa Robles-Gil and Undark

Light pollution is threatening the future of astronomy. Can a new nationwide lighting standard make a difference?

Space

Whoa! The Webb Telescope Zoomed Way into the Iconic Horsehead Nebula

ByKiona Smith

This dense cloud of interstellar gas is 3,000 light-years away, but it looks close enough to touch.

Health

Can Ozempic Actually Affect Fertility? Here’s What Two Experts Think Is Going On

ByThe Conversation, Robert Norman and Karin Hammarberg

Weight loss can improve menstrual irregularities, and it may also increase the chance of pregnancy in women with obesity.

Science

Did Life on Earth Come From Space? A New Study Gives the Theory a Boost

ByThe Conversation and Christian Schroeder

The building blocks of life might form more easily in outer space.