Look Up! The Skies Bid Farewell to 2024 With Three Meteor Showers in December
December is the most active month for meteor showers, and this year's celestial show is already in full swing. The Geminids, usually the strongest meteor shower of the year, started ...
12-5-2024
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Rare Hoard of Early Medieval Coins Uncovered in UK Field Were Likely Buried Due to Viking Invasion Fears
There is a quiet once again in the field in Bickmarsh, located 45 minutes south of Birmingham, UK. Now that the electronic hum of metal detectors and the ...
10-12-2026
Celestial Alignment Will Offer Invitation to Look up From Our Phones—What to Know
The pop-up notification will push onto smartphones next month, scrambling avid star -watchers to scout for a “planet parade” in the night sky using their astronomy apps. From ...
10-9-2026
‘Papa Goose’: Frenchman Flies Wing-to-Wing With Geese, Creating ‘Miraculous Moments’
At 3,000 feet, the only thing separating Christian Moullec from a flock of geese is a thin veil of mountain air and a pair of leather gloves. The ...
10-2-2026
Twin Meteor Showers Will Glitz the Night Sky Around Halloween—One a Remnant of Halley’s Comet
If you step out onto the porch to gaze at the stars next month, you might notice something different in the night sky. Straining through a thick curtain ...
09-28-2026
Scientists Discover 240-Million-Year-Old ‘Pig-Turtle’ Creature in Africa—And They Say It Reshapes the Timeline of First Dinosaurs
Not every discovery story unfolds like an Indiana Jones action adventure. Sometimes a fossil can sit collecting dust for 63 years only to suddenly reemerge, and upend decades ...
09-25-2026
2,200-Year-Old Shipwreck Found Off Coast of Croatia Reveals Ancient ‘Service Stations’ at Sea
In a sterile laboratory in France, Armelle Charrié-Duhaut pores over black shavings of ancient tar to piece together the final, last-ditch voyages of a 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck. Through ...
09-15-2026
Granddad Spots Gleam in the Dirt, Plucks 2.29-Carat Yellow Diamond From Volcanic Crater in State Park
To the untrained eye, the land looked worthless. But to Barry Smith and his granddaughters, the 37-acre plowed field at Crater of Diamonds State Park felt less like ...
09-11-2026
Archaeologists Unearth 1,900-Year-Old Mosaics From Lavishly Adorned Ancient Roman Fire Station
When excavators’ shovels bit into the hillside at Villa Celimontana—a lush Roman garden where tourists and locals stroll, just a few streets down from the Colosseum—the initial task ...
08-29-2026
‘Another World’: Photographer Explores Giant Ice Caves in the Belly of a Glacier—And The Photos Are Surreal
By the time Chandresh Kedhambadi stepped into the ballroom-sized cavern, he could tell the glacier had been holding its breath for centuries. In late 2020, Kedhambadi—at that point ...
08-15-2026
Metal Detectorists Uncover Norway’s Largest-Ever Viking Hoard: 5,000 Silver Coins and Jewelry
If you have ever bought silver, stashed cash, or moved assets into crypto to protect your savings from inflation and government overreach, you have more in common with ...
08-8-2026
Arctic to the Mediterranean: Total Solar Eclipse Will Sweep Over the North Next Month—Here Are the Best Views
For Jamie Carter, seeing a total solar eclipse for the first time felt like a glitch in the cosmos. The whole sky became a sunset. Animals suddenly stopped ...
07-25-2026
6-Planet ‘Parade’ Will Sweep Across the Night Sky in August—What to Know
In November 2018, the space probe Voyager 2 broke beyond the boundary of the solar system, officially crossing into interstellar space. The legendary spacecraft had managed to slingshot ...
07-24-2026
Lost Knowledge: Amazing Inventions That Made the Ancient World Ahead of Its Time
Earthquake monitoring, steam engines, surgery, and advanced materials: A journey through ancient inventions that were ahead of their time—and did not survive.
06-29-2026
Delta Aquariid Shooting Stars Will Crisscross 3 Other Meteor Showers in July—What to Know
Don Machholz lugged his 100-pound homemade binocular apparatus to the summit of Loma Prieta, the highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California, in search of ...
06-12-2026
25 Everyday Miracles to Inspire Awe
Our universe is far stranger and more wonderful than it may first appear.
06-5-2026
Metal Detectorist Finds 2,000-Year-Old Chariot Wheels and Ritual Weapons in Yorkshire Field
When Peter Heads' metal detector sounded in a muddy field in late December 2021, he knew he had found something big. The amateur detectorist began digging near the ...
06-5-2026
Czech Photographer Captures ‘Unrepeatable’ Red Full Moon Behind 15th-Century Castle
Most astrophotographers would probably settle for a rickety abandoned barn as a foreground for their Milky Way photos. But Petr Horálek prefers a 15th-century castle perched majestically on ...
05-27-2026
Arietid Meteor Shower Will Grace the Twilight Morning Sky in June—What to Know
There's a good chance you will spot shooting stars streaking from the eastern horizon during twilight hours later this spring season. A daytime meteor shower called the Arietids—though ...
05-15-2026
Eta Aquariids, One of the Year’s Best Meteor Showers, Will Soon Swarm the Sky
Meteor season is back, so let's talk about shooting stars. These sporadic shots of light are caused by space debris striking and burning up in Earth's atmosphere, sometimes ...
04-24-2026
Two Full Moons Will Occur in May, Including a Rare ‘Blue’ Micromoon—What You Need to Know
There's a good chance you won't notice the bizarre behavior of the full moon next month. Strangely, there will be two full moons squeezing into May, instead of ...
04-22-2026
VIDEO: Nest Cam Shows Famed California Bald Eagle Pair’s Chicks Hatch, Delighting Thousands of Fans
Jackie the eagle and her mate, Shadow, are movie stars. They are bald eagles with millions of adoring fans peeking into their lives via a nest cam in ...
04-10-2026
The Lost History of Human Civilization
New archaeological evidence suggests humanity’s story might be far older than previously imagined.
04-6-2026
Upcoming Lyrids Will End Meteor Shower Drought—What You Need to Know
One hundred and sixty five years ago, while scanning the night sky from his home in New York, Alfred E. Thatcher saw an object with an apparent diameter ...
04-3-2026
6-Planet Parade Will Appear in the Evening Sky Later This Month—Here’s What You Need to Know
The planets have throughout history predicted the rise and fall of empires, the careers of famous personalities, and new eras filled with discovery. Today, science looks at events ...
02-14-2026
New Study: Medieval Farmers Worked With Nature, Not Against It
Medieval farmers practiced techniques that balanced productivity with ecological health.
01-31-2026
Astronomer Captures Towering Solar Eruption Shaped Like the Burj Khalifa Skyscraper in Dubai—Here’s the Video
Everything about photographing the sun is extreme. With a vast illumination 400,000 times brighter than the moon, the sun can be captured in detail only by using extremely ...
01-3-2026
One of the Best Meteor Showers of the Year Will Kick Off 2026—What to Know
Next month, just days after most major cities across the globe will have rung in the new year with fireworks, another fireworks show will appear 60 miles high ...
12-12-2025