While the Gemini North Telescope may be at a high enough elevation to avoid light pollution, it has another issue that might ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

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 ...

The Florida immigration detention site dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” is being met by opposition from a range of groups concerned with its impacts on local Native American tribes, the Everglades ecosyste ...

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

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

A new study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the ...

States across the Northern edge of the U.S. have a chance to see the northern lights (also known as aurora borealis) this ...