Astronomy

It’s shadow time, baby! Soon, people living in North America will get to experience their first solar eclipse in almost a decade.Even though the last solar eclipse in North America happened in 2017, the next one isn’t expected until…

In other anecdotes, onlookers have reported birds that stop singing, crickets that stopped chirping, or bees that return to their hive, reduce their foraging, or suspend their flight during total darkness. But there are also studies that…

If you live in the US and missed the last total solar eclipse in 2017, good news! You're about to get another chance. There will be a total solar eclipse passing through Texas and the Midwest states on April 8. Remember that in a solar…

It’s shadow time, baby! Soon, people living in North America will get to experience their first solar eclipse in almost a decade.Even though the last solar eclipse in North America happened in 2017, the next one isn’t expected until…

A total solar eclipse is coming to North America on April 8. The Great North American Eclipse, as it has been dubbed, will be visible across 13 US States, plus parts of Mexico and eastern Canada. But it will not look the same for…

But the solar system contains more than two masses. In fact, it started as a big cloud of dust without any planets and without the sun, and every speck of dust had an attractive interaction with every other speck. That's a lot of…

Illustration: Rhett AllainYou can see that we have a right triangle with the hypotenuse equal to the distance from the observer's eyes to the center of the Earth (R + h), with the other two sides being just R and the distance to the…

Illustration: NASATheir analysis looks convincing, says Andrew Rivkin, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory who studies the composition of asteroids and who was not involved in the paper. “Short…

Representatives from SpaceX did not respond to WIRED’s requests for comment. But Patricia Cooper, a former SpaceX vice president, told WIRED: “SpaceX has put a lot of money, a lot of time, and a lot of thought into its corrections.”…

Duffy and Haworth speculate that on remote planets, communities of purple bacteria could swell in black sulfurous oceans, or spread in films around local sources of hydrogen sulfide. If they evolved into plants that could survive on…