
Six October Nights Worth Looking Up For
Saturn at its peak brightness, two meteor showers, Mercury after sunset, and the Hunter’s Moon: the month’s key dates and how to see them with the naked eye.

Saturn at its peak brightness, two meteor showers, Mercury after sunset, and the Hunter’s Moon: the month’s key dates and how to see them with the naked eye.

It measured 89 feet tall, was one of Hawaii’s most iconic landmarks, and collapsed without a single witness. Park rangers had known for years that it was only a matter of time.

A volcano darkened the sky for more than a year, opening the door to famine, bitter cold, and the first major plague pandemic.

It appeared on maps, in a 1479 treaty, and even in a newspaper photograph. There’s just one catch: it never actually existed.

3,300-foot walls, plants found nowhere else, and a weeklong trek: inside the tepui behind Pixar’s ‘Up’

Filmmakers turned it into a movie set; the land is turning it into a ruin, season by season.