EarthSky | Don’t miss! Planet-moon conjunction time Monday morning
Conjunction time! This is the Northern Hemisphere view. The Southern Hemisphere view, below, is even better. The moon, brilliant Venus, and fainter Mars and Saturn all bunch together in a…
Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Captures the Full Sun in Unprecedented Detail
Animation of ESA’s Sun-explorer Solar Orbiter. Credit: ESA/Medialab Solar Orbiter’s latest images shows the full Sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on March 7, 2022, when the spacecraft was…
Parts of the Milky Way are much older than thought, study reveals
The Milky Way’s thick disk is 2 billion years older than astronomers previously thought and likely formed barely 800 million years after the Big Bang, a new study based on…
Avian flu is infecting U.S. poultry flocks. It could affect the price of chicken, too
Enlarge this image A truck drives out of a Wisconsin farm on Thursday where avian flu was detected, forcing the commercial egg producer to destroy more than 2.7 million chickens.…
COVID hospitalizations tick upward in LA County
The number of COVID-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals has climbed by 23 people to 373, departing from the recent trend that’s seen the total fall from over 4,800…
Public Health Catastrophe Looms in Ukraine, Experts Warn
More than one in four new H.I.V. infections in Ukraine occur among the country’s roughly 350,000 injecting drug users. Before the war, Ukraine’s policies on harm reduction enabled more than…
Alcohol-related deaths spiked in 2020 – killing more under-65 Americans than COVID
A new study revealed that alcohol-related deaths spiked in 2020 from the previous year. The study conducted by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism found that there was…
Jacksonville rapper offers to pay funeral costs for teen who died after fall from amusement park ride
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – After a 14-year-old Missouri teen fell to his death from a towering Florida amusement ride this week, a rapper and R&B singer from Jacksonville is offering to…
Why Biden’s off-script remarks about Putin are so dangerous
“My gosh, I wish they would keep him on script,” he said. “Any time you say or even, as he did, suggest that the policy was regime change, it’s going…
Western heat wave sets records, fuels fire near Boulder, Colo.
They were among dozens of heat records set in the western United States on Saturday. Daily records for March 26 were set in Salt Lake City (79 degrees); El Paso…