A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater near the surface could help explain some of the decrease in Antarctic sea ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gold Coast Titans host the North Queensland Cowboys in Round 17 of the 2025 NRL Premiership at Cbus Super Stadium, Gold Coast ...

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

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

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 ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...