The Perseid meteor shower takes place each year as Earth travels through the debris shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Perseid meteors captured streaking through the sky over Turkey in 2024. (Image credit: Photo by Serdar Yigit/Anadolu via Getty Images) The Perseid meteor shower hits its peak on Aug. 12-13, bringing with it a torrent of shooting stars along with the potential
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois as an incoming solar storm could spark geomagnetic storm conditions overnight. Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Illinois as an incoming solar storm could spark geomagnetic storm conditions overnight. (Image credit: Created in Canva by Daisy Dobrijevic. Aurora forecast inset courtesy of NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.)
The Perseids are one of the most visually spectacular meteor showers of the year and are known for spawning impressive fireballs that light up the night sky. A Perseid meteor is seen streaking across the sky over Yosemite National Park. (Image credit: Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images) Get ready stargazers: the Perseid meteor shower peaks next week, Aug. 12-13,
The full sturgeon moon — the second full of summer in the Northern Hemisphere — will turn full on Saturday, Aug. 9. It will be best seen during dusk that evening, but also be a spectacular sight the previous evening on Friday, Aug. 8. It takes its name from the sturgeon fish found in the Great Lakes in North America during summer. One consequence of the timing of this full moon is the ruining
The “megaflash” occurred in 2017 and stretched from Texas to Missouri. Some areas are more prone to lightning storms than others. (Image credit: John finney photography/Getty Images) It’s 2017, and a thunderstorm shoots off a lightning bolt. What’s so special about that, you ask? Well, the bolt is an astonishing 515 miles (829 kilometers) long. Using archiva
The "megaflash" occurred in 2017 and stretched from Texas to Missouri. Some areas are more prone to lightning storms than others. (Image credit: John finney photography/Getty Images) It's 2017, and a thunderstorm shoots off a lightning bolt. What's so special about that, you ask? Well, the bolt is an astonishing 515 miles (829 kilometers) long. Using archival satellite
The moon's crescent limb will cloak and uncover stars from the iconic cluster before sunrise. Don't miss the moon cover the Pleiades for the final time in 2025 on July 20. (Image credit: Created in Canva Pro by Daisy Dobrijevic) If you live anywhere in the contiguous U.S. or Canada, and clear skies are forecast for early Sunday morning, July 20, then be sure to step outsid
Long before there were trees, the Earth was overrun by giant mushrooms. Fungi first showed up over a billion years ago as three-metre-tall fungus fingers that dominated the landscape, while plants have been around for a paltry 700 million years debuting as scruffy shrubs. A billion or so years on, the humble ‘shroom is an unlikely champion in the war against plastic waste thanks to the discovery
It may look like a Stone Age skatepark, but the Wave is all-natural. Very few rock features in the world can compare to the Wave in Arizona. With its swirling layers and undulating forms, this trippy rock formation is not only an Instagrammable sight, but also a geological wonder that's been 190 million years in the making. The Wave can be found in the Coyote Buttes North area of the Colorado
Twice a Year, Reindeer Eyes Pull Off a Wonderful Magic Trick The Arctic can stay perpetually dark for months. Reindeer cope by changing part of their eyes from gold to blue. Of all the eyeballs in Glen Jeffery’s office, only a very small minority are his. “Oh, I’ve got an office full of eyes,” Jeffery, a neuroscientist at University College London, told me. Over Skype, he fi
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