This incident adds to the long list of close calls for the Long March 3B, a Chinese launch vehicle that has faced scrutiny ...

A polar day is when the sun does not set and stays above the horizon for an extended period, while a polar night is when the ...

Many climate experts see its deserts as a place to build the green-energy future. For two local activists, the price is too ...

Skywatchers are set to be dazzled by the northern lights over the coming hours, as a geomagnetic storm builds.

A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of ...

Trump’s fascination with Greenland is not a new idea. For more than a thousand years, colonial aspirations have shaped the ...

SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from California's central coast today (Jan. 24). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink craft is scheduled to lift off from ...

A solar explosion called a coronal mass ejection is poised to graze Earth on Friday or Saturday (Jan. 24 or Jan. 25), ...

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps around a planet ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.