Even to the unaided eye, the moon reveals round dark regions called "maria." Before the age of telescopes, people imagined these dark stretches as oceans of water. In reality, they are vast lava plains left behind by asteroid impacts.
The Follow Up
The cost of eggs is more than 50% higher than a year ago. Is there any relief in sight and what makes this bird flu outbreak, which began in 2022, so hard to contain?
Backyard Astronomer
This year, the March equinox arrives on the 20th which marks the first day of spring for the northern hemisphere.
Hidden History
An 1891 oil painting of the Charlton, a tugboat on the Saginaw Bay.
Historia
One of our great American poets shared his struggles with the dreams of America and the realities of living amongst the historical shades that created and sometimes betrayed them.
