You stepped outside, looked up, and the moon is the wrong colour. Not silver-white but orange, or coppery, or a dull smoky red — and it looks bigger than it should. So why is the moon orange tonight? The short answer is that you are not looking at the moon. You are looking at the … Read more
T-Mobile customers across the United States started seeing “SOS” or “SOS Only” instead of their usual signal bars on the afternoon of July 27, 2026. Downdetector logged more than 140,000 reports at the peak, making this T-Mobile SOS outage one of the largest carrier disruptions in years. Here’s what actually happened, why phones switched into … Read more
Update, September 3, 2026: ChatGPT went down again, this time alongside OpenAI’s coding tool Codex. Downdetector reports jumped from over 5,000 to more than 22,000 within about ten minutes on the morning of September 3, and OpenAI’s status page confirmed an active incident titled “Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex.” Details on this latest outage are … Read more
A Canadian camper was scrolling through Google Maps to plan a hiking route when he noticed something odd: a near-perfect ring, 15.5 miles across, sitting in the middle of the Quebec wilderness. Scientists have now confirmed what he suspected. This is the story of how a meteorite crater hiding in plain sight for 390 million … Read more
The Farnborough International Airshow 2026 opened this week with a number that’s hard to picture: $48.8 billion in deals on day one alone. By the time the show closes on Friday, that figure will be much higher. So why does one airfield in Hampshire generate tens of billions of dollars in a single week, and … Read more
Updated October 2026. The physics is the same everywhere. The current yellow haze over parts of Indonesia is wildfire smoke. Most other yellow skies are not. Why is the sky yellow today? Because something between you and the sun is scattering blue light away. Clean air does that a little, which is why a normal … Read more
🔔 Updated August 9, 2026: A fifth tranche has since been released on August 7, 2026. See our breakdown of Pentagon UFO Files Tranche 5 for what’s new. The short version: On July 10, 2026, the Department of War published Pentagon UFO Files Tranche 4 — the fourth batch of declassified records in the government’s … Read more
Daylight Saving Time (DST) was introduced to make better use of natural daylight and reduce energy consumption during wartime. It was first seriously proposed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but it only became widespread during World War I. Contrary to popular belief, it was not created to help farmers. Many farmers opposed … Read more
Updated: The sun is not on fire. In most of the country, neither is the sky. If you typed why is the sun red today in 2026, do not assume you are standing in last July’s plume. That event — Pacific Northwest and Canadian smoke drifting across the Lower 48, a deep-red disk even at … Read more
Why is CERN shutting down? It is not. The laboratory is open. The Large Hadron Collider, the 27-kilometre ring under the Franco-Swiss border, stopped taking beams on 27 June 2026 and entered Long Shutdown 3 on 29 June. The stop is planned, it was on the calendar for years, and it is for an upgrade, … Read more