Greetings, stargazers. The most interesting thing in the sky for me last month was seeing the most intense hailstorm with the largest hail I have seen since moving to Durango over twenty-five years ...

On a trip to the Yukon, writer Debbie Olsen experiences the beauty and bounty of Canada’s westernmost territory—and learns ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...

The star, more formally called Polaris or α Ursae Minoris, is located in the constellation Ursa Minor, sitting almost directly above Earth's North Pole in the sky, making it ideal for orientation.

NASA has discovered a planet-wide electric field on Earth, known as the ambipolar electric field. All you need you know about ...

the Earth rotates about this line, called an axis. In winter, the North Pole is tilted away from the Sun. So the Sun's rays can't reach places in the far north, the Arctic Circle. In these places ...

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The Earth’s ambipolar electric field is weak but strong enough to control the shape and evolution of the upper atmosphere.

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

In a new study, geologists from Australia and China have pieced together Earth's tectonic evolution over the past 1.8 billion ...