In 2017, did you catch the solar eclipse, the first video footage of ruby sea dragons and the news about the first asteroid from outside our solar system? This artist's concept appeared on the cover of the journal Nature on February 23, 2017, announcing new results about the system. (Ming Bai)Total solar eclipseOn Aug. 21, a total solar eclipse was visible in the continental U.S. for the first time in 99 years. A boy poses for a photograph and looks up to the sun wearing protective goggles in Berlin prior to the start of the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017. (Jarek Tuszyński)Oldest lifeTwice in 2017, researchers announced they had found the oldest evidence of life on Earth in Canada.

Source: CBC News January 01, 2018 09:56 UTC