July’s night sky highlights include the full Buck Moon, your last chance to see Mars for quite some time, and...

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If your birthday lands in October, you get two birthstones. Opal has been October's gem for centuries, prized for the...

Halloween 2026 falls on Saturday, October 31, the strongest weekend draw the holiday has had in years. October 31 is...

A shooting star is a meteoroid (typically a sand-grain to pea-sized piece of rock) burning up in Earth's atmosphere at...

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August's birthstone is peridot, the light olive-green gem the ancient Egyptians called the "gem of the sun." Two other stones...

If you were born in June, you have a richer birthstone lineup than almost anyone else on the calendar. The...