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This Map Shows Exactly What You’ll See During April’s Eclipse From Everywhere in the United States

ByDoris Elín Urrutia

More than 300 million people in the US will see a partial eclipse on April 8, 2024.

photo of a green comet with a red nucleus and a blue tail, with stars and black sky in the backgroun...
Space

The Solar Eclipse May Include A Rare Comet If You Look In Just the Right Spot

ByKiona Smith

The comet might be bright enough to see with the unaided eye during the eclipse, but only if it erupts at the right time.

People watch a solar eclipse, in Santiago de Chile, Chile, 14 December 2020. A solar eclipse, partia...
Space

The Complete Guide To Avoiding Scams And Buying the Right Solar Eclipse Glasses

Space

Ghost Particles Could Help Untangle Quantum Gravity

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With Starliner Astronauts Stuck Indefinitely, The ISS Might Tie A 15-Year-Old Spaceflight Record

If the Boeing Starliner test crew stays in space for much longer, the space lab will get really crowded.

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Reel Science
Star Trek's Science Advisor Reveals How Starfleet Quietly Fixed Relativity

It’s all about the warp bubbles.

ByRyan Britt
Space
Astronomers Were Looking for a Planet, but They Didn't Expect This One

The Epsilon Indi star system is already pretty weird, but this surprising new planet just made it even weirder.

ByKiona Smith
Space
Evidence of Alien Life May Lie on the Surface of Europa and Enceladus, A New Study Reveals

Chemicals that hint at the presence of life, like amino acids, aren't destroyed by cosmic radiation nearly as quickly as we thought, and that's good news.

ByKiona Smith
Science
What Secrets 385 Meteorites Tell Us About The Interior Of Mars

Some 385 stones, meteorites found on Earth, provide valuable insights into Mars' geological history and volcanic activity.

ByJames Day and The Conversation
Science
The Full ‘Buck’ Moon This Weekend Will Be Epic — Don’t Miss It

Time to go buck wild for the Buck Moon.

ByKiona Smith
Science
Climate Change is Triggering an Unexpected and Fundamental Planetary Change

A surprising interplay between ice melt and physics means Earth’s days are getting longer

ByLauren Leffer
Science
Astronomers Stumbled Upon a Planet In the Act of Becoming a Hot Jupiter

Welcome to hot Jupiter summer.

ByKiona Smith
Science
Dune's Stillsuits Could Soon be Real Gear for Astronauts

At least the Moon doesn't have giant sandworms.

ByKiona Smith
Science
Scientists Just Found Evidence for Hidden Passageways Under the Moon’s Surface

This is the best evidence to date of natural tunnels occurring on the Moon.

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science
Astronomers Believe A Star Is About To Explode 3000 Light Years From Earth — Here’s How to See It

T CrB is usually much too faint to be seen. But once every 80 years or so, it brightly erupts.

ByTanya Hill, Amanda Karakas and The Conversation
Reel Science
Note To Hollywood: Nobody Faked The Moon Landing

Is the new rom-com Fly Me To The Moon good fun or a new path to damaging conspiracy theories?

ByRyan Britt
Space
Hurricane Beryl Likely Contributed to Boeing Starliner’s Ongoing Delays

There's not much anyone can do to help from 250 miles above the ground.

ByKiona Smith
Review
You Can’t Fake the Old-Fashioned Star Power of Fly Me to the Moon

Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum’s rapport lifts this historical rom-com.

ByMichael Gingold
Space
Failed Thrusters, Helium Leaks, and a Hard Deadline: Inside NASA’s Decision to Keep Boeing’s Starliner At the ISS

Does it still count as being "grounded" when you're in space?

ByKiona Smith
Space
There's a Black Hole Hidden in this Photo of a Digested Dwarf Galaxy

This dense ball of stars is a relic of a galaxy our Milky Way swallowed long ago, and it may be hiding an astrophysical missing link.

ByKiona Smith
Science

The Great Salt Lake Emitted More Than 4 Million Tons of Greenhouse Gasses In 1 Year

ByDoris Elín Urrutia

The Great Salt Lake is drying out, and emitting more carbon dioxide, because of human activity.

Science

With Starliner Astronauts Stuck Indefinitely, The ISS Might Tie A 15-Year-Old Spaceflight Record

ByDoris Elín Urrutia

If the Boeing Starliner test crew stays in space for much longer, the space lab will get really crowded.

Olympic Limits

ByAriela Basson

Athletes are more skilled, stronger, and faster than ever. For the Olympic Games Paris 2024, as records fall left and right, you’d be right to ask — just what are the physical limits of athletes, what are those high-tech shoes they’re wearing, and how do they do that? With a little help from the experts, Inverse is here to answer and guide you through how the athletes got here — and where the future might take us.

Science

Inside the Science That Makes Nike's Alphafly 3 the Fastest Shoe At the Paris 2024 Olympics

ByClaire Maldarelli

Inverse got an inside look at Nike’s Alphafly 3, currently the world’s speediest marathon shoe.

Health

An Infectious Disease Doctor Reveals the Only Covid-19 Factor Everyone Should Track In 2024

ByElana Spivack

Focus on the genetic clusters rather than each individual variant.

Space

Astronomers Were Looking for a Planet, but They Didn't Expect This One

ByKiona Smith

The Epsilon Indi star system is already pretty weird, but this surprising new planet just made it even weirder.

Science

These Researchers Cooked Like Neanderthals for Science

ByElana Spivack

Cooking with a flint flake isn’t as easy at Neanderthals make it look.

Olympic Limits

Olympic Surfing Requires a Perfect Wave — This 58-Year-Old Tech Can Bring It

ByAlex French

Want better surfing at the Olympics? Bring on the wave machine.

Space

Evidence of Alien Life May Lie on the Surface of Europa and Enceladus, A New Study Reveals

ByKiona Smith

Chemicals that hint at the presence of life, like amino acids, aren't destroyed by cosmic radiation nearly as quickly as we thought, and that's good news.

No Spin Zone

5 Facts ‘Twisters’ Got Right About Tornadoes

ByDoris Elín Urrutia

The latest meteorological blockbuster left these tornado experts impressed.