Know Your Sky: A Glowing “Space Jellyfish” Appears Over the Eastern U.S.

A luminous, tentacle-like cloud spread across the predawn sky Tuesday, creating an otherworldly spectacle with a surprisingly straightforward explanation. An enormous, glowing formation resembling a translucent jellyfish appeared in the early morning sky Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, captivating observers across portions of the southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States. Its luminous body and spreading, tentacle-like trails […]

Is the Dark Side Trying to Stop Us Becoming a Cosmic Species?

Mark Booth returns to Dreamland for one of the strangest shows we have ever recorded. Mark’s new book, The Secret History of the Universe, explores an ancient idea now reappearing at the edges of modern physics: that consciousness may be more fundamental than matter, and that the universe itself may be permeated by intelligence. Mark […]

Aug. 27-28: A Deep Lunar Eclipse Will Turn the Moon Dark and Coppery

Aug. 27-28‘s deep partial lunar eclipse will place 96.3% of the Moon’s disk inside Earth’s darkest shadow. For observers interested in anomalous phenomena, it is also a useful reminder of just how strange a perfectly ordinary sky can become. Anyone watching the sky tonight is in for an unusual sight: Earth’s shadow will swallow nearly […]

Eclipse, Perseids and Six Planets Converge on August 12

Progression of a total solar eclipse

As NASA chases the Moon’s shadow at 50,000 feet, skywatchers will experience an unusual convergence of a total solar eclipse, the Perseid meteor shower and a six-planet parade. Wednesday will bring an unusual concentration of celestial events: a total solar eclipse, the peak of the Perseid meteor shower and a six-planet parade — while NASA […]