Showers

Something extraordinary happened last Saturday at the frigid high point of the Greenland ice sheet, two miles in the sky and more than 500 miles above the Arctic Circle: It rained for the first time.The rain at a research station — not just…

Robin Harper, an administrative assistant at a Martha's Vineyard preschool, grew up taking a shower every day."It's what you did," she said. But when the coronavirus pandemic kept her indoors and out of the public eye, she started…

As the earth revolves around the sun all year round, it passes streams of cosmic debris. The resulting meteor showers can light up the night sky from dusk to dawn, and if you're lucky, you might be able to catch one.When you spot a meteor…