Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second local noon. The sidereal day is just a little bit shorter—approximately 23 ...

Lightning happens all the time, but certain parts of the world get far less of it than others, including near the North Pole. Lightning requires atmospheric instability, something that’s set up ...

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

At APL, a team is developing portable tech to detect ocean species using eDNA. Their goal: real-time, low-cost monitoring to ...

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

The finals of the Icebreaker of Knowledge international scientific and educational initiative took place at the ATOM Museum in VDNKh ...

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

Beneath the bogs of New Zealand’s Northland is a massive Ngāwhā kauri, living from 41,000 to 42,500 years ago, which gives an isolated, unbroken record of a period when Earth’s magnetic field declined ...

Imagine a world where burly Norse warriors discover a new continent—and then just... walk away. Wild, right? Get ready for a ...

Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no ...

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

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...