Scientists locked in ice planned for North Pole’s hazards. Then came the coronavirus.
After four months in near-total isolation, the scientists are returning to a world transformed by the coronavirus pandemic.
After four months in near-total isolation, the scientists are returning to a world transformed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The interstellar traveler, which makes its closest pass in December, could reveal our own place in the cosmos.
“Climate change is happening faster than it’s ever happened before in our record,” Utquiagvik-based NOAA scientist Bryan Thomas said. “We’re right in the middle of it.”
A couple and their grandson survived deadly tornadoes by sheltering under a mattress as their house disintegrated.
Scientists on Monday released an emergency update to the World Magnetic Model, which cellphone GPS systems and military navigators use to orient themselves.
The unpredictable shift in Earth’s magnetic field has forced researchers to update the model that aids cellphone GPS systems and military navigators.
At least one episode - a devastating marine heat wave off the coast of Australia that cooked ecosystems and damaged fisheries - would have been “virtually impossible” without human influence, scientists said.
The Kepler Space Telescope, NASA’s powerhouse planet hunter, is out of fuel at age 9.
The universe's biggest space telescope is as tall as a three-story building and as wide as a tennis court. Its main mirror is large enough to collect light from the very first, most distant stars and sensitive enough to capture the heat signature of a bumblebee on the moon.
The new archaeological find, announced Thursday, offers tantalizing evidence of a Viking presence 300 miles from the only place in Canada they'd ever been seen before.
The BBC's "Swiss Spaghetti Harvest" TV broadcast has been declared one of the greatest April Fools' pranks all of all time. But it was not the first ever April Fools' joke, not by a long shot.
The man's girlfriend, who was with him when the gun went off, told authorities that the pair had taken several selfies with the gun throughout the day.