New Year’s resolutions. Spring cleaning. Dry January. October Theory. NoSo November. Our culture is obsessed with collective goal setting and the idea that forming new habits during specific times of ...

Just before sunset, as baseball-sized tarantulas cross the road at Colorado’s Southern Plains Land Trust, two biologists quietly exit their car to scoop up a few of these eight-legged pedestrians.

Day 22 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Heart of a Tarantula. This image, made by the James Webb Space Telescope, features the Tarantula Nebula’s star-forming region, seen here about ...