Greenland plays an outsized role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate changes taking ...

Astronaut Donald Pettit shared a mesmerizing 9-second video of auroras from the ISS, sparking debate online. While some ...

The Mars Sample Return program has been way over budget and, according to NASA's administrator, has been "out of control." ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour ‘kiss-and-capture’ encounter after a grazing ...

Seismic technology has revealed secrets of the Earth from a million years ago. During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), ...

New Yorkers will be able to see a total lunar eclipse and three consecutive supermoons in 2025. See the full calendar.

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way.

A Women Photojournalists of Washington exhibition shows a striking range of images taken by photographers from the area.

The Oregon Coast’s famed king tides will return for the third and final time this season. Here's when and how to see them.

Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the ...

A hotspot that is now located in the Atlantic played a key role in forming the lakes, home to a fifth of the world's fresh water.

“Fact-checkers have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U ...