Summer 2026 in the Northern Hemisphere will see some of the year’s best skywatching, from full moons to meteor showers, planetary displays and a rare solar eclipse.
Wimbledon qualifying matches and the main tournament itself could face record heat. Here’s what you need to know.
North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead, which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere. This week, Mars visits the Pleiades.
A new geothermal player. Upgrading the grid with wood veneers. How drones are leveling the military playing field. All that and more in this week’s Prototype.
Over 20,000 people gathered at Stonehenge in the U.K. on June 21 to witness the summer solstice sunrise, marking the Northern Hemisphere’s longest day.
H5N1 bird flu has reached Australia, the last continent it had spared. It came from Antarctica via seabirds, and the next host to watch is wild ducks.
Algae are headline news these days. Here’s a discussion of the “science of algae.”
Katalyst Space’s LINK spacecraft will launch from an airplane in the Marshall Islands to boost NASA’s Swift Observatory, which is dangerously close to burning up.
Science has spent decades trying to reconstruct Megalodon, the most powerful predator the oceans ever produced. The picture that emerges is more unsettling than legend.
The habits that look like putting yourself first and distancing your partner are often the ones silently holding a relationship together.