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…
Try Skimming Potato-Shaped Stones on Water, Mathematicians Say
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,…
A ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Is Threatening California. Here’s What That Means
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 Considers SpaceX as Emergency Return Option for Stranded ISS Crew
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…
First Korean Moon Mission Delivers Devastatingly Gorgeous Views of Earth
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…