With three strong hurricanes, wildfires, hail, flooding, tornadoes and drought, the United States tallied a record high bill last year for weather...
When it comes to weather, it’s hard to sound scarier than “bomb cyclone.”It’s a version of a real weather term that applies to a massive winter...
Winter is coming ... later. And it’s leaving ever earlier.Across the United States, the year’s first freeze has been arriving further and further...
It was a faint signal, but it told of one of the most violent acts in the universe, and it would soon reveal secrets of the cosmos, including how...
The sun is about to spill some of its secrets, maybe even reveal a few hidden truths of the cosmos. And you can get in on the act next week if you...
Industry has made more than 9.1 billion tons of plastic since 1950 and there’s enough left over to bury Manhattan under more than two miles of...
Earth is likely to reach more dangerous levels of warming even sooner if the U.S. retreats from its pledge to cut carbon dioxide pollution...
Astronomers have found yet another planet that seems to have just the right Goldilocks combination for life: Not so hot and not so cold. It’s not...
With steamy nights, sticky days and torrential downpours, last year went down as one of the warmest and wildest weather years on record in the...
John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in...
By SETH BORENSTEINAssociated PressAfter scanning the vast reaches of the cosmos for Earth-like planets where life might exist, astronomers have...
Scientists have come up empty-handed in their latest effort to find elusive dark matter, the plentiful stuff that helps galaxies like ours form.For...