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

Every state but Hawaii, California and Florida is likely to get a taste of wind chills of 20 degrees or colder.

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 ...

Another round of snowy, chilly weather is gripping the United States this week, extending the frigid start to the year across ...

China has begun recruiting for a planetary defense force after risk assessments determined that an asteroid could conceivably ...

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip, turning north into south and south into north. These ...

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 ...