Science fiction fans are an incredibly passionate bunch and just like everyone else, we love to celebrate Valentine’s Day with starry-eyed appreciation and gratitude towards our friends and loved ones with flowers, chocolates, and over-priced greeting cards to mark the amorous occasion. To help celebrate Cupid’s favorite holiday, we’ve compiled a sweet collection of some … Read more
Venus, named for the Roman goddess of love, reaches its greatest brilliancy on Valentine’s Day, February 14. Venus is currently blazing, low in the west after sunset, with Saturn below. Join EarthSky’s founder and editor-in-chief Deborah Byrd at 12:15 p.m. CT (18:15 UTC) on Wednesday, February 12, to learn how (and why) to love Venus. … Read more
Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter. UPDATE FEBRUARY 2, 2025. IT’S CLOUDY AND COLD IN PUNXSUTAWNEY, PENNSYLVANIA. But the legendary groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, somehow saw his shadow. The prediction is for six more weeks of winter! The great weather prognosticator In case you’ve just landed here from another planet … Groundhog Day happens … Read more
The U.S. military took this image on January 2, 2005, of the aftermath of the Boxing Day tsunami at a village near Sumatra. The deadly tsunami struck after a 9.1-magnitude earthquake on December 26, 2004. Image via Philip A. McDaniel/ United States Navy/ Wikimedia Commons (public domain). 20-year anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami It … Read more