Galileo started this quest over 400 years ago, and scientists finally were able to peek at one of the biggest mysteries of ...

The Solar Orbiter space mission, a joint initiative of the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, has for the first time ...

Amazing Facts on Northern Lights The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, are a stunning natural light display caused by ...

Beneath the bogs of New Zealand’s Northland is a massive Ngāwhā kauri, living from 41,000 to 42,500 years ago, which gives an isolated, unbroken record of a period when Earth’s magnetic field declined ...

A screwdriver is an essential tool for all your home improvement projects, but you can improve it even more by making it ...

1916: First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men. 1920: French tennis superstar Suzanne Lenglen beats Dorothea Chambers 6-3, 6-0 to win the ...

In the 1970s, Kelly Tarlton was world-famous in New Zealand as an underwater treasure hunter.

The south pole of the Sun, photographed by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument aboard Solar Orbiter on 30 March 2022. © ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team The Sun’s poles are of particular ...

In the sweltering heat of Homestead, Florida, where most tourists are rushing toward the Keys or the Everglades, there stands a monument to one man’s determination, heartbreak, and possibly ...

Lightning happens all the time, but certain parts of the world get far less of it than others, including near the North Pole. Lightning requires atmospheric instability, something that’s set up ...

Geologic records reveal that magnetic field strength and oxygen levels rise and fall together, implying deep-Earth processes ...

In the stratosphere over Siberia, temperatures recently jumped nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit, shoving the polar vortex off its North Pole perch.