Katherine Harmon Courage

This week, chunks of the famous comet will fall to Earth in the Eta Aquarids meteor shower

The geography of loss, in two imaginative charts

Welcome to the Animal Issue

Connection is primal.

Why your life sometimes feels alien to you.

Earth’s meteorology could explain what’s behind the great red whorl’s waning.

Our minds are being coerced in covert ways.

NASA cosmic dust curator Marc Fries is here to explain.

A new image of our solar system’s most volcanic body.

What the melting permafrost looks and sounds like to a scientist.

When sleep doesn’t come on time.

Here’s how psychology can help fix that. (It’s easier than you'd guess.)