An atmospheric scientist explains what’s been going on in the atmosphere, and how El Niño and the jet stream both play ...

| Artist’s concept of the ancient lake in Gale crater. A new study from researchers in Japan suggests that ancient rains on ...

In 79 A.D., Gaius Plinius Secundus, known today as Pliny the Elder, was the supreme commander of the Roman imperial fleet, ...

Bow Lake in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, offers a spectacular view of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, where towering ...

Rocks Part 2] Stones continue to change even after they are born—Three types of rocks and the journey of matter around the EarthRocks do not necessarily remain the same once they are formed.They may ...

The lead front page story in the New York Times this week was headlined: “Superpowers Racing to Put Nuclear Reactors on Moon.” The nations involved: the ...

Isaias was expected to strengthen into a major hurricane Friday as it headed toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, where final ...

One of the last of the Abbeyite monkey wrenchers is gone.  I came to know Ken Sleight, who died last week, when my ex-wife and I rented, in 2006, a little ...

What could be more sobering than in remembering that at different times, the Almighty Creator sent down to this earth ...

On 20 October, a rocket will blast off from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) Tanegashima Space Center, flinging a spacecraft the size of a car to Mars. When it arrives, it’ll swoop ...

Steven Spielberg and Paul Schrader tried to work together on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as Max Evry recounts in ...

The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.