What's going on with storms on the sun?

IT HAS BEEN A SEASON OF SKY PAGEANTS. MARCH 24 and 25 saw a lunar eclipse across the Americas, Europe, and North and East Asia. April 8 featured the total solar eclipse in North America.

5 tricks to calm your fear of flying

GINA MOFFA'S FEAR OF FLYING took off early. When she was 10, her mother-overwhelmed by bad turbulence on a flight to Italy clambered to the emergency exit and tried to get out of the plane. A fellow passenger offered her Valium, and a nun onboard prayed the rosary with her. \"And then she was OK,\" Moffa says. \"But it taught me there was something to be afraid of.\"

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Sixteen Candles' Gedde Watanabe Looks Back

When director John Hughes cast Gedde Watanabe as foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong alongside Molly Ringwald (right) in Sixteen Candles 40 years ago, he had no idea the actor-who was born and raised in Utahwas faking his heavy accent.

Riley Keough's Latest Move to Protect Graceland

When Riley Keough stepped out on May 24 to fete her grandmother Priscilla Presley on her 79th birthday, she was also celebrating a legal victory.

'How Did She Disappear'

NPR host Tonya Mosley got a call and learned she had a sister—who was missing in Detroit. She and her nephew set out to get answers and found healing along the way

Jason & Adria's SECRET ROMANCE

It's so on between Jason Momoa and Adria Arjona.

GAVIN'S GOT A TYPE

There’s something... familiar-looking about Gavin Rossdale’s new girlfriend, musician Xhoana X. The 40-year-old, who went public with the Bush frontman, 58, in March, looks an awful lot like his ex, Gwen Stefani.

NASCAR RACERS SLUG IT OUT AFTER CRASH!

Stenhouse & Busch swap nasty digs and punches

JOHN MAYER WINS ANDY'S LOVE AGAIN

STARRY-EYED Andy Cohen was all hearts and flowers as he swooned over a mash note his BFF John Mayer wrote to stop nosy parkers from speculating over whether the two BFFs are having sex!

SEX CREEP FRANCO WANTS BACK IN!

Hopes H'wood ready to forgive & forget

GIGI CATERS TOBOSSY BRADLEY!

BOSSY Bradley Cooper has allowed Gigi Hadid into his private world like never before — but spies say she’s having to handle his fanatical fussiness and diva demands that would have sent most women ducking for cover!

DEMONIC DIDDY'S GOOSE IS COOKED

Hotel video captures vile attack on lover

Michael Crow The president of Arizona State on handling campus protests, embracing AI, the future of college sports, and partying

Since Oct. 7, protests and conflicts over free speech have erupted on college campuses and beyond. It seems that the job of university president has become one of the more stressful occupations in America. What's your stress level right now?

Japan's ruling party burns through another leader

IT'S NOT EASY BEING JAPAN'S Prime Minister. Though the center-right Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has dominated the country's politics for nearly seven decades, the top job has frequently changed hands. Fumio Kishida is just the third leader in the past quarter-century to last at least two years. Yet once again, change is coming.

The parents who regret having children

NO ONE REGRETS HAVING A CHILD, OR SO IT'S SAID. I'VE heard this often, usually after I'm asked if I have children, then, when I say I don't, if I plan to. I tend to evade the question, as I find that the truth-I have no plans to be a parent is likely to invite swift dissent. I'll be told that I'll change my mind, that I'm wrong, and that while I'll regret not having a child, people don't regret the obverse. Close family, acquaintances, and total strangers have said this for years; I let it slide, knowing that at the very least, the last part is a fiction.

MOST INFLUENTIAL COMPANIES 2024

From retail behemoths to AI pioneers, these are the businesses shaping our world

DEMONIZING RURAL AMERICA

By the time I was 7 or 8 years old, I was keenly aware of my father's drug use. He didn't snort pills in front of me yet―he saved that for my teen years—but he talked about pills freely, and I knew he took them. And by the time I became an adult, everyone in my nuclear family-and plenty in my extended family-was struggling to cope with the impacts of violence, incarceration, and addiction.

A Late Legend's New Novel

When author and film director Michael Crichton died of cancer in 2008 at age 66, his pregnant widow, Sherri, just wanted to sit in his writing room, surrounded by the work that was so central to his life.

A HOLLYWOOD STORY

THE TV AND SCREEN VETERAN DETAILS HIS FAMED FAMILY'S HISTORYAND TRAGEDY-IN A NEW MEMOIR

MY Life Now

THE FORMER INMATE AND VICTIM OF MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY ENJOYS FREEDOM AND A NEW LOVE

GAMBLING AWAY HIS FORTUNE!

LASER-FOCUSSED ON MAKING HIS PASSION PROJECT, THE HORIZON DIRECTOR PUT UP $38 MIL - DID IT COST HIM HIS WIFE?

RETIRED GENERAL ARRESTED AS KIDDIE RAPIST!

SCANDAL-scarred hero Mike Houston McClendon was once flying high in the U.S. Air Force — but the retired brigadier general has seen his reputation nosedive after being arrested for allegedly raping a minor!

NASHVILLE THROWS THE BOOK AT MORGAN WALLEN!

Rejects his request for saloon sign after bust for tossing chair off roof

Memories of our LEGENDARY DADS

THE CHILDREN OF THESE FAMOUS FATHERS SHARE SWEET STORIES WITH CLOSER

WILLIAM A HARRY WANT THIER MOMMY!

Battling brothers both stake claim to Diana's legacy

REALITY BELLE DUI ARREST AFTER CRASH

SOUSED Southern Charm alum Kathryn Dennis was blitzed behind the wheel when she was involved in a three-car collision in South Carolina, lawmen say.

Jessica's Next Chapter

In April, Jessica Alba announced that she was stepping down from the Honest Company after 12 years, but the star, 43, is feeling good about what’s to come.

PLAYING HOUSE!

Love rat Rep dumps wife & seven kids for rotunda romp!

I'm Having A PARTY!

The Wilson Phillips singer shares life lessons and details about her new cooking show