Some animals that migrate across the globe-such as birds, salmon, lobsters and sea turtles-are known to navigate using the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the unusually cold winter across the U.S., the world remains in an overall warming pattern. Earth's average overall ...

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

In addition to this itinerary, Le Commandant Charcot will feature several pioneering southern itineraries, including a ...

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.

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