Sea ice plays many important roles for the global climate: Its white surface can reflect energy back into space, helping the ...

This year's Arctic sea ice peak is the lowest in the 47-year satellite record, according to data released by the US National ...

Sounding rockets launched from the Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks, Alaska, lit up the night sky for miles ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

“There is evidence that liquid water existed in Gale Crater for millions of years and probably much longer, which means there ...

NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer launched on March 14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission, ...

The spectacle has been seen in Scottish skies this week and Dr Elizabeth MacDonald has issued advice to those hoping to catch ...

Tom Skilling, WGN-TV chief meteorologist emeritus, collaborates with Lisa Dent to host a podcast to spread awareness about the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Mining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the team of astronomers studied the relics that one star left behind after ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe team won the 2024 Collier Trophy for boldly venturing into the Sun’s atmosphere. With revolutionary ...

Ice cover ebbs and flows through the seasons in the Arctic (left) and the Antarctic (right). Overall, ice cover has declined ...

Experts are not sure why Neptune's auroras can be seen around the planet's "mid-latitudes," and not the north and south poles ...