Mercury moves super fast around the Sun, finishing its year in just 88 Earth days. The planet has crazy temperature swings, ...

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater near the surface could help explain some of the decrease in Antarctic sea ...

Gu also noted that it requires further investigation to assess whether the discovered habitable planet truly possesses conditions suitable for Earth-like life. The research is jointly conducted by 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 ...

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

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

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

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

When most of us think about theweather on other planets, we imagine extreme conditions—boiling acid rain, methane snow, or ...

A rare geological event occurs every 300,000 years or so: the Earth’s magnetic poles flip. The magnetic poles are the two ...

For those north of the equator, the solstice marks the longest day and the shortest night of the year. The Earth spins on a tilt as it revolves around the sun. The summer solstice occurs for Earth's ...

The 2025 summer solstice takes place on June 20, heralding the onset of astronomical summer and the longest day of the year.