WASHINGTON — The cosmic calendar for 2026 is stacked with meteor showers and even some eclipses. The lineup begins in January with the annual Quadrantid meteor shower peaking on Jan. 2 and Jan. 3.
If you compress Earth’s entire 4.5-billion-year history into a single calendar year, humanity doesn’t appear until the very last moments of December 31st. In this famous “cosmic calendar” analogy, ...