An alien comet from another star is soaring through our solar system
The interstellar traveler, which makes its closest pass in December, could reveal our own place in the cosmos.
One of Alaska’s warmest springs on record is causing a dangerous thaw
“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.”
‘Nothing matters more than life’: Alabama tornado survivors reckon with ‘Armageddon’
A couple and their grandson survived deadly tornadoes by sheltering under a mattress as their house disintegrated.
The north magnetic pole is mysteriously moving, and the US government finally caught up
Scientists on Monday released an emergency update to the World Magnetic Model, which cellphone GPS systems and military navigators use to orient themselves.
The magnetic north pole is on the move, and the shutdown means we aren’t keeping up
The unpredictable shift in Earth’s magnetic field has forced researchers to update the model that aids cellphone GPS systems and military navigators.
Climate change is said to be behind 15 world weather disasters in 2017
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.
So long, Kepler, and thanks for all the planets
The Kepler Space Telescope, NASA’s powerhouse planet hunter, is out of fuel at age 9.
NASA's new gold-covered telescope will put the Hubble to shame
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.
An ancient site spotted from space could rewrite the history of Vikings in North America
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.
A brief, totally sincere history of April Fools' Day
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.
In latest selfie-related death, Washington man shoots himself in the face
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.
In latest selfie-related death, Washington man shoots himself in the face
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.