More than 12 million people sat in the path of totality of the August 21 solar eclipse, as it passed from the West Coast to the East Coast of the United States. The spectacular miracle of nature saw the moon cross paths with the sun, blocking out sunlight and darkening […]
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Cassini gazes across the icy rings of Saturn toward the icy moon Tethys, whose night side is illuminated by Saturnshine, or sunlight reflected by the planet.
Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on Sept. 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles, (7.0 million kilometers, or about 18 Earth-Moon distances).
Dim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the Sun but more massive than Jupiter, have powerful winds and clouds — specifically, hot patchy clouds made of iron droplets and silicate dust. Scientists recently realized these giant clouds can move and thicken or thin surprisingly rapidly, in less than an […]
Let our news meet your inbox. SIGN UP Think virtual reality is just about gaming and the world of make-believe? Get real. From product design to real estate, many industries have adopted VR and related technologies— and nowhere are the benefits of VR greater than in healthcare. “We are seeing […]
Your dollars go a lot further in some states than others. The Tax Foundation released the latest iteration of its map showing the relative value of $100 in every state compared with the national average using data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In more expensive states like California, you can afford […]
View photos solar eclipse highlights thumbnails 01 More (In the path of totality, it looked like nighttime at the solar eclipse’s peak.Gene Kim) I watched the solar eclipse on my parents’ farm in Wisconsin and got a front-row seat to wacky animal behavior during the celestial event of the century. […]
MILAN — Italian firefighters working through the night, sometimes digging by hand, freed a 7-month-old baby Tuesday and then his two older brothers from the rubble of their home that collapsed when a 4.0-magnitude quake struck the resort island of Ischia during the height of tourist season. At least two […]