Discover why Antarctica no longer has lush forests with giant ferns and how ancient fires fueled intense volcanic activity.

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

At APL, a team is developing portable tech to detect ocean species using eDNA. Their goal: real-time, low-cost monitoring to ...

Amazing Facts on Northern Lights The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, are a stunning natural light display caused by ...

Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no ...

Read What are asteroids?Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are ...

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

A former Brunner Professor at the University of Liverpool, Sir David King has spent decades shaping global environmental ...

Airliners go just about everywhere in the world, but despite advances in air travel, there's still one place that a ...

Lightning happens all the time, but certain parts of the world get far less of it than others, including near the North Pole. Lightning requires atmospheric instability, something that’s set up ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

Geologic records reveal that magnetic field strength and oxygen levels rise and fall together, implying deep-Earth processes ...