Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...

More states in the northern U.S. will have a chance of seeing aurora borealis on Friday, as high-speed winds from a spot on ...

This winter, with record snow in New Orleans and drought and destructive wildfires in Southern California, has not been ...

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

Two such lunar canyons, Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, stretch over 270 km (168 miles) each, with depths of 2.7 km ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the Earth’s magnetic field went haywire. The compelling 2021 study tells the ...

Hello, readers! Let’s talk about a term that’s been used, and often misused, in the media recently: the polar vortex. The ...

Spring - brought on by the March equinox - is only a few weeks away. You can also count down the days to spring in real time.

The northern lights are best seen between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time, according to NOAA, which recommends traveling to a ...

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