El Niño and La Niña are climate phenomena that are generally associated with wetter and drier winter conditions in the ...

There's a place on Earth where lightning flashes almost every night—until, one day, it stopped. What causes the Catatumbo ...

Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its ...

White dwarf stars could host habitable planets. Fast planetary rotation reduces cloud cover, keeping surface temperatures stable.

Some big fronts are slated to pass through our viewing area over the next few days. Will this be the final move of winter ...

Water conservation practices that are simple and easy to implement this winter include: - Winterizing outdoor spigots when temperatures drop below freezing. - Curtailing lawn watering. Dormant lawns ...

Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. But new climate models challenge that idea, showing that ...

As we burn fossil fuels, the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere ... the circulation—it draws the surface waters down into the deep ocean, and recirculates deep water up to the ...

Arctic cyclones may be accelerating sea ice loss by breaking ice into smaller pieces and driving upwelling of warm water. A study links these storms to rapid ice depletion and suggests that tropopause ...