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Diagram showing all eight phases of the lunar cycle, from New Moon through First Quarter, Full Moon, and Last Quarter

Moon Phase Today – September 18, 2026: First Quarter Moon at Apogee

On September 18, 2026, the First Quarter Moon rises at midday with roughly 46% of its disc illuminated, coinciding with lunar apogee — the moon’s farthest orbital point this month. The result

September 18, 2026

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Full Harvest Moon rising in September 2026 photographed by Mike Linnihan

Moon Phase Today – September 16, 2026: Waxing Crescent at 29%, Harvest Moon in 10 Days

The moon phase today, September 16, 2026, is a Waxing Crescent at approximately 29 percent illumination, five days into the lunar cycle following the September 11 New Moon. The First Quarter arrives in two days, with the Harvest Moon and

September 16, 2026

by Kiranpreet Kaur

Russia’s Progress MS-35 Reaches Orbit After Soyuz Defect Forced Seven-Day Delay

Russia's Progress MS-35 lifted off from Baikonur on September 16, ending a seven-day hold after Roscosmos

Waning Crescent moon at 1% illumination on September 10, 2026, as imaged by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Moon Phase Today – September 10, 2026: Waning Crescent at 1% as New Moon Arrives Tonight

The moon phase today, September 10, 2026, is a Waning Crescent at 1% illumination — the

A water aqueduct under drought conditions, illustrating the kind of supply stress now reaching the East Coast as Virginia, North Carolina and Connecticut tighten restrictions

The East Coast Drought That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen Here Triggers Mandatory Cuts in Three States

Virginia hit 38 percent extreme drought this week, Durham is enforcing mandatory cuts from Monday, and Connecticut's governor has declared a Stage 2 advisory for three counties. The Mid-Atlantic is starting to

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

SpaceX Nasdaq IPO opening bell ceremony on June 12, 2026 — Gwynne Shotwell rings the bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City

SpaceX Goes Public at $1.77 Trillion, Catapulting Elon Musk Into History as the World’s First Trillionaire

NEW YORK – On a Friday morning in June, at the Nasdaq MarketSite in the heart of Times Square, Gwynne Shotwell rang the opening bell to a crowd of audible cheers. A

June 12, 2026

Artificial Intelligence·Business·Economy·Science·Technology

Tourists use umbrellas to shield themselves from intense sun outside Istanbul's Hagia Sophia during a summer 2025 heatwave

Human-Caused Warming Hit 1.37C in 2025, and the 1.5C Budget Now Runs Out Around 2030

Seventy scientists put human-caused warming at 1.37C last year and the carbon budget for 1.5C at about three years of emissions. The Paris ceiling the world promised to defend is now projected

June 12, 2026

Climate·News·Science

People wade through a recreational vehicle park flooded by a king tide near Corte Madera in Marin County, California

Once-Rare Coastal Floods Are Now 12 Times More Likely, Twin Studies Find

Floods that coastal planning treats as one-in-a-century events are now about 12 times more likely, two new studies find, with human-driven sea level rise behind most extreme water days. The math underneath

June 12, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Huge Pacific waves crash against the rocky shore at Shore Acres on the Oregon coast, the kind of surf El Nino winters drive into the US West Coast

El Niño Is Back, and NOAA Puts 63 Percent Odds on a Super Event by Winter

NOAA has declared El Niño with two-in-three odds it reaches super strength by winter, a class of event seen only five times since 1950. It arrives on a planet already at record

June 12, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Smartphone displayed with social media app in Brussels June 2026, illustrating new research on birth rate decline

Governments Are Spending Billions to Raise Birth Rates. The iPhone May Have Already Won.

A new NBER study by Middlebury College economists finds that the iPhone's 2007 rollout explains up to 52% of the U.S. fertility decline — exposing a fundamental gap in the pronatalist policy

June 10, 2026

News·Science·Technology

A NOAA scientific monitoring buoy being deployed at sea, the kind of ocean observing instrument the US is now removing

Trump Administration Pulls America’s Deep-Ocean Sensors as the Atlantic Sends Warnings

Recovery ships are pulling the Ocean Observatories Initiative's sensors out of the Pacific and Atlantic this month, ending a $368 million system built to watch for the ocean's tipping points. Scientists call

June 10, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Neolithic Linear Pottery culture vessels, the farming culture that occupied the Vrable settlement in Slovakia

A Neolithic Ditch in Slovakia Held 77 Headless Skeletons. Only a Child Still Had a Skull.

A new study describes 78 Neolithic skeletons in a ditch at Vrable, Slovakia, all but one missing their skulls. The lead researchers argue the heads were removed in a deliberate burial rite

June 10, 2026

News·Science

Bleached white coral and dead reef near Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef as ocean temperatures rise

UN Warns the Ocean Is Nearing a Tipping Point as Heat and Acid Build

The ocean is approaching a tipping point after a ninth straight year of record heat, a sweeping UN assessment by 600 scientists from 86 nations warns. It found marine heatwaves across nearly

June 9, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Artemis III Space Launch System rocket ahead of crew Earth orbit mission 2027

NASA Names Artemis III Crew for Earth-Orbit Mission That Was Supposed to Go to the Moon

NASA named the four-person Artemis III crew at Johnson Space Center on June 9, 2026. The mission, originally designed to return humans to the Moon's surface, was redesignated as a low Earth

June 9, 2026

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Moon Phase Today – September 18, 2026: First Quarter Moon at Apogee

Moon Phase Today – September 16, 2026: Waxing Crescent at 29%, Harvest Moon in 10 Days

Russia’s Progress MS-35 Reaches Orbit After Soyuz Defect Forced Seven-Day Delay

Moon Phase Today – September 10, 2026: Waning Crescent at 1% as New Moon Arrives Tonight

The East Coast Drought That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen Here Triggers Mandatory Cuts in Three States

SpaceX Goes Public at $1.77 Trillion, Catapulting Elon Musk Into History as the World’s First Trillionaire

Human-Caused Warming Hit 1.37C in 2025, and the 1.5C Budget Now Runs Out Around 2030

Once-Rare Coastal Floods Are Now 12 Times More Likely, Twin Studies Find

El Niño Is Back, and NOAA Puts 63 Percent Odds on a Super Event by Winter

Trump Administration Pulls America’s Deep-Ocean Sensors as the Atlantic Sends Warnings

A Neolithic Ditch in Slovakia Held 77 Headless Skeletons. Only a Child Still Had a Skull.

UN Warns the Ocean Is Nearing a Tipping Point as Heat and Acid Build

NASA Names Artemis III Crew for Earth-Orbit Mission That Was Supposed to Go to the Moon

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