Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

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

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

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

The July full moon, also known as the Buck Moon, occurs on July 10. It will share the evening sky with Mars and Saturn.

It's popularly understood that no one can hear you scream in space, and yet, scientists have captured some pretty strange ...

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 ...

It is easier to find your geographical middle if you only need to deal with one nation. Still, there are plenty of methods to ...

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.

In the stratosphere over Siberia, temperatures recently jumped nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit, shoving the polar vortex off its North Pole perch.

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