Tiny Satellite Named Mario Couldn’t Be More Mario If It Tried
JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata snapped a view of the Mario CubeSat shortly after it was deployed from the ISS. NASA/Koichi Wakata The Mario movie based on the Super Mario Bros. game is…
What Is a ‘Bomb Cyclone’? Here’s Why It’s So Destructive
The bomb cyclone on Wednesday, Jan. 4, moving toward the coast of California. NOAA Satellites Beginning Wednesday and on into Thursday, areas of Northern and Southern California have been undergoing excessive…
What Is a ‘Bomb Cyclone’? Here’s Why It’s So Threatening
The bomb cyclone as it moves toward the coast of California, taken on Wednesday, Jan. 4. NOAA Satellites On Wednesday and Thursday, areas of Northern and Southern California are poised…
Green comet will pass by Earth for first time since Neanderthals roamed Earth
A green comet discovered last March will make its closest approach to Earth this month. The comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was first discovered by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera…
Behold the Ghostly Oldest Surviving Photo of the Northern Lights
Aurora photography has come a long way since the 1800s, but this ghostly glimpse shows how it started. Martin Brendel/Alta Museum On this day in 1892, German astronomer Martin Brendel…
A Comet Zooming Toward Us Could Soon Be Visible With the Naked Eye
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as observed from Mount Fuji, Japan. SpaceWeatherGallery.com/Akihiro Yamazaki The new year is less than a week old, but what’s expected to be the brightest comet of…
Tiny Satellite Named MARIO Sends a Very Mario Message Back to Earth
JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata snapped a view of the MARIO CubeSat shortly after it was deployed from the ISS. NASA/Koichi Wakata The Mario movie based on the Super Mario Bros. game is…
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…
Fossilized Species Had the Body of a Bird and Skull of a Dinosaur
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 Korean Moon Mission Delivers Devastatingly Gorgeous Earth Views
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…