Daily Archives: Dec 17, 2025

"Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet." The decade's advertising slogan summed up more than Americana it was a characteristic emblem of the generation whose ego was gauged in cubic inches and quarter-mile speeds. Muscle car mania in 1966 was full bore, and Chevrolet's Chevelle SS396 was its slimming...

"The Sun is a cruel mistress," science fiction author Robert Heinlein once wisecracked. This week, that catchphrase takes on a peculiarly literal flavor. A powerful solar storm is charging towards Earth, threatening to illuminate the skies above most of the United States in a rare Labor Day spectacle and...

How frequently is the night sky filled with a procession of unusual alignments, eclipses, and planetary spectacles within one month? This September, the sky produces a string of displays that will put even the most experienced stargazers to their test. There's a blood-red lunar eclipse, the pale glimmer of...