The ozone layer sits toward the bottom of the stratosphere, roughly 20 to 40 kilometers (66,000 and 131,000 feet) above the ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Magnetars, a type of neutron star, may be the explosive remnants of stellar mergers, rather than the result of massive stars collapsing and exploding as supernovae, since the phenomena originate in ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

Our next series of storms moves in for the weekend delivering light valley rain and mountain snow west of the Cascades for ...

These photons, with an energy of around 0.2 electronvolts (eV), can't travel very far ... a stream of charged particles blown ...

Here are a dozen of the most unusual Christmas traditions from around the world. St. Nick’s devil-like counterpart, Krampus — celebrated throughout Germany, Austria, Czechia, Slovenia, ...

Power was restored to parts of Cuba on Thursday a day after Hurricane Rafael swept over the island, leaving its 10 million ...

More than a foot of snow has fallen across San Miguel and Mora counties over the past 24 hours, with more than a foot ...

An astronaut’s photo from the International Space Station captures crepuscular rays and cumulonimbus clouds, revealing a ...

In the last few days, a seasonal weather system known in Spain as the "cold drop" or DANA (an acronym of "depresión aislada ...