Daily Archives: Mar 13, 2026

"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...

It is unusual for a military sidearm to survive two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, and into the age of contemporary special operations. Unusual still for it to continue in production, unaltered, over a century since its adoption. John Moses Browning's Colt 1911, chambered in the powerful .45 ACP, is...