A new study from the University of Arizona reveals how historical tree-ring data can help predict extreme summer weather ...

Dazzling auroras may be visible in the night skies above 12 states this week after geomagnetic activity across the North has repeatedly exceeded expectations over the past few days. Solar wind moving ...

Parachutes rarely get the credit they deserve. They transform deadly freefall into a gentle descent, saving lives in war ...

A new book argues that simply replacing fossil-fuel extraction with critical-mineral mining is no way out of the climate ...

New images reveal microstructures that, depending on how the wind blows, help give a dandelion seed lift-off or the grip needed to wait for a better breeze.

Plus: Why are hurricanes so powerful? Are winds on other planets like they are on Earth? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in ...

Satellites help scientists to document a correlation between dust travelling from Africa and hailstones falling in the Alps.

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

A 2017 satellite photo shows the stark contrast along the boundary between a giant field of golden "star dunes" and a barren ...

Earth's atmospheric rivers are no longer traveling along their historical paths. They are shifting toward both poles, an ...

The shocking discovery of hematite on the Moon was made a few years ago. Hematite forms from the oxidation of iron, a process ...