The changes in temperature and vertical structure of the atmosphere are the two main processes that affect the weather on ...

The Komodo dragon ( Varanus komodoensis) is the largest living lizard on Earth. The biggest males can exceed 10 feet (3 ...

Sunspot regions: Currently, the solar disk as seen from Earth shows only one numbered sunspot region, now that AR4536 has departed. Meanwhile, a newcomer in the northeast produced a B flare this ...

Hurricane Nolo is strengthening south of Hawaii, with forecasters warning that the storm could bring potentially catastrophic ...

Mars is famous for being the red planet. With your eye alone you can see the red tinge that sets it apart from other points of light in the night sky. But a new image from the Mars Express orbiter ...

This is last year’s Fat Bear Week champion, Bear 32 aka “Chunk.” After finishing as the runner-up in previous years, Chunk won the 2025 title — after making a remarkable recovery and bulking up ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to study an unusually warm, Saturn-sized exoplanet. The planet, TOI-199b, is about 330 light-years from Earth. It’s temperate, meaning its ...

On August 26, 2026, a massive flash flood stormed down river valleys in Nepal, leaving at least 300 dead and over 900 missing as of 11 UTC on August 27. While there was initial confusion about what ...

This starfield shows the newly discovered Milky Way satellite galaxy at the center. The point of light at left marked by the star shape indicates a star that was crucial in determining the distance to ...

The solar eclipse of August 12, 2026, was total as seen from Greenland, Iceland and Spain. The northern path of the eclipse path was plagued with clouds. But, in Spain – where the eclipse happened ...

On August 5, 2026, the U.S. National Science Foundation National Solar Observatory (NSF NSO) announced what they said is a groundbreaking discovery in the field of solar physics. They said it could ...