Earth Anomalies

The 1st May full moon happens on May 1. It’ll look full on the nights before and after that, too. The 2nd May full moon – a Blue Moon – will fall on May 30-31.

New citizen science project Space Warps lets you study new Euclid space telescope data to find galaxies bending the fabric of the universe.

Comet R3 PanSTARRS is closest to Earth on April 26. See a cool image from a sun-watching spacecraft, and these fantastic community photos.

We’re expecting multiple days of severe weather across the Plains and Midwest this weekend and into early next week. Find out more here.

Turn the lights out for birds during spring migration. Check out the links here to maps that show when birds are passing over the area where you live.

Small ants clean larger ants, a researcher has discovered. It’s the first known case of interspecies grooming between ants.

Earth Oddities • Strange Weather Phenomena • Desert Ecosystems • Go back to Strange Sounds Death Valley is experiencing a rare superbloom, a spectacular desert event in which vast numbers of wildflowers suddenly bloom across the valley floor after rare rainfall. This is the best flowering desert phenomenon in the driest place in North America […]