First the big dipper drifts into view, then the stars...
While the Orionid meteor shower in October is famous as...
Over the past few weeks we’ve given readers eyeful upon...
If you get a cloth dripping wet in the absence of gravity...
The sun is a wondrous thing, enabling Mother Earth to be...
The sun is spurting all manner of plasma this year and next...
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Astronomy

Eclipse glasses flew off shelves, people flocked to eclipse viewing parties, and others watched online...
Eclipse viewing is considered taboo in many indigenous cultures, most notably among the Navajo in the U.S., since the path of the May 20 annular eclipse falls directly across the t...
While millions around the world will flock to view the annular solar eclipse on Sunday at sunset, many who are smack in the middle of its shadowy path will avert their eyes...
On May 20 a great celestial event will take place: The moon will obscure the sun—almost...
The U.S. space agency NASA has captured photos of what has been dubbed the Big Blue Marble , our Mother Earth, in stunning high-definition ...
The discovery of a Mayan calendar that blows away all new-agey notions of an impending apocalypse on December 21, 2012, notwithstanding, we are not in the clear yet...
A team of archaeologists has discovered a series of murals deep in the Guatemalan jungle, one of them a calendar that looks far into the future, the scientists announced on May 10...
Everyone’s buzzing about the giant moon about to hit Earth...
The Popocatépetl volcano (the word is Aztec for "smoking mountain") has been spewing ash, rocks and other material for nearly two weeks now, so prominently that a NASA satellite ca...
The photograph titled “Earthrise,” taken on Christmas Eve 1968, is credited with sparking the environmental movement and inspiring Earth Day , which was declared in 1972...

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