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

Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second ...

That’s why it took scientists by surprise when dozens of lightning strikes were detected within 300 nautical miles of the North Pole this past weekend. In fact, it was so unusual that it was ...

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

Expensive and erratic, in-flight Wi-Fi has been more of a punchline than a pipeline over the past decade. But 2025 has marked ...

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

Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.

At the University of Central Florida’s Exolith Lab, Dr. Phil Metzger and other university researchers have developed a ...

More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern states have reported witnessing a mysterious object streak across the sky.

Something’s stirring in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) – and a strange “hole” of cold water in the ...

If your dream is to explore the world, you might instinctively look into airfare or the most scenic road trips as your ...

Thankfully, 100-degree days are a rarity here. There have only been 66 of them, according to data kept by the National ...