The Fires Came First, Then the Floods: My Year of ‘Weather Whiplash’
Smoke from the Hermit’s Peak-Calf Canyon fire, as seen from Taos, New Mexico, on May 15. Eric Mack This story is part of CNET Zero, a series that chronicles the…
Smoke from the Hermit’s Peak-Calf Canyon fire, as seen from Taos, New Mexico, on May 15. Eric Mack This story is part of CNET Zero, a series that chronicles the…
An artist’s illustration of what Cratonavis zhui might’ve looked like long ago. Zhao Chuang After analyzing a bizarre fossil specimen, believed to be about 120 million years old, scientists realized…
South Korea’s Danuri luner orbiter captured a knockout view of the moon and Earth in late December 2022. KARI Hello, Earth, you’re looking beautiful. South Korea’s Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter…
These might not look like premium skimming stones, but they’re worth a throw. Amanda Kooser/CNET The conventional wisdom for skimming (or skipping) stones on water is to find a round,…
The bomb cyclone as it moves toward the coast of California. NOAA Satellites On Wednesday and Thursday, areas of Northern and Southern California are poised to experience excessive rainfall, widespread…
NASA TV streamed a look at the Soyuz leak as it happened. NASA TV Three residents of the International Space Station are facing an uncertain future after a Russian Soyuz…
South Korea’s Danuri luner orbiter captured a knockout view of the moon and Earth in late December 2022. KARI Hello, Earth, you’re looking beautiful. South Korea’s Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter…
Astronauts on the International Space Station caught Quadrantids from orbit in 2020. NASA/Christina Koch The early months of every year have a relative dearth of meteor showers, so the Quadrantids…
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory captured footage of the coronal mass ejection on Tuesday. ESA/NASA/USNRL Our closest star’s latest intense expulsion of plasma was captured by sun-watching observatories on Tuesday.…
The Quadrantid meteor shower, the first of the year and one of the best displays, was peaking Wednesday morning amid a bright moon and cloudy weather conditions. The full moon…