Category: Stuff We Love

This year, October is a big month for sky watchers: the excitement is mostly focused on the “ring of fire” solar eclipse in the middle […]

Audiobooks make writing more accessible to many people. Unfortunately, they can also be quite expensive. Although audiobooks can be borrowed from the public library, popular […]

If you want to photograph a solar eclipse, you have two options soon. On October 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse (that is, one in […]

You can’t visit other planets (yet), but your name can. NASA is sending the names of millions of people to Mars. Unlike the ” name […]

The Universe is giving a cosmic gift this week: a newly discovered comet will fly by Earth to say hello before leaving our planetary surroundings […]

There’s nothing better to cool off on a hot summer than admiring the night sky, and this year August is working overtime to get in […]

This week, a lot of people are wrong about aliens and UFOs. On June 5, The Debrief reported that U.S. intelligence agent/whistleblower David Charles Grush […]

The next 12 months will be amazing for solar eclipse lovers. Residents across North America will be able to watch two different eclipses – one […]

In addition to the summer solstice—the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere—June is packed with celestial events, from meteor showers to planetary […]

This Friday, May 19th, a rare “black moon” will rise in the night sky, signaling the dawn of a new era of bloodshed and chaos […]

As the saying goes , “Born too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore the cosmos.” It’s true that, barring some monumental […]

This month, the Universe is throwing a meteor party to which all of humanity is invited. The annual Lyrid meteor shower will fill the night […]

The hopeful, heroic people you see above are the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian […]

You may not always notice them, but Venus, Jupiter (and some other planets) often appear in the evening sky as very bright stars. Right now, […]

If you want to see the last full moon of winter, look into the sky on March 7th when the Worm Moon rises, signaling the […]

If you are not immortal, the next few weeks will be your only chance to see Comet ZTF (C/2022 E3). The newly discovered chunk of […]

Have you ever found a strange rock while hiking and thought, “I bet it came from outer space!” I have. Unfortunately, it’s almost certainly not […]

On Thursday, January 26, asteroid 2023 BU will fly by Earth. The asteroid is small, less than five meters wide, but it’s getting closer. The […]

There is something evocative about a full moon in winter. Combined with leafless trees and extreme cold, this harsh ball hanging in the frosty air […]

If you’ve ever looked up at the lights in the night sky and wondered if there’s life out there, rest assured there is. The third […]

In 2023, different events take place in space. The New Year promises a host of celestial events, from ideal conditions for watching meteor showers to […]

The European Space Agency has a task for you: to find asteroid 2015 RN35. They call it the “Christmas Asteroid” and it is in view […]

This Wednesday and Thursday, December 14 and 15 marks the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower, the main event of the year for meteor […]

If anyone on your holiday shopping list is interested in astronomy but you can’t tell the Pleiades from Pilates, read on. Herre is a guide […]

If you’ve ever wanted to travel to a galaxy far, far away, now’s your chance to get at least a peak in some of them […]

At the end of the year, with inflation at its 41-year high , your annual budget may not have much (or nothing) left over for […]

The December full moon will delight us miserable people with its majestic presence on December 7th. The last full moon of 2022, often referred to […]

While we wait for the launch of NASA’s Artemis I lunar rocket (maybe) this week , there’s another cosmic event to watch out for: Two […]

If she were a baseball player, they would have called British politician Liz Truss a “cup of coffee” – that is, a player whose time […]

Whether we’re talking about “shit,” “fuck,” or “fillet,” people love to make up funny stories to explain the origins of commonly used words. False etymology […]

The November night sky will delight lovers of the starry sky. A total lunar eclipse is ahead, a couple of meteor showers and the best […]

Every fall, our planet passes through the ribbon of space debris left by Halley’s comet, and the Earth’s atmosphere, colliding with this trail of ice […]

There has never been a better time to learn how to play the guitar than now. The amount of free (or practically free) guitar resources […]

You can see the October full moon, called the “Hunter’s Moon”, by rising on Sunday, October 9th. It will be at its brightest at 4:54 […]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is doing more than just building ambitious telescopes that can see the beginning of time and send people to […]

I’m Irish American, so I have to despise the British monarchy on both sides of the hyphen. I’ve been indifferent all my life… that is, […]

Have you ever gone to karaoke and watched with envy as others took to the stage when you were too caught up in your own […]

After stopping the launch sequence at the end of the game earlier this week, NASA is once again about to send a massive rocket into […]

According to a demographic study I just did, seventy-nine percent of Lifehacker readers are serving hard time in our nation’s correctional facilities. So if you’re […]

Yesterday, Dodge announced the end of production of the Dodge Challenger and Charger models. The iconic 2023 muscle car models will be the last new […]