An international team of scientists has uncovered evidence glaciers in the Southern and Northern hemispheres were synchronous ...

The summer solstice marks the start of astronomical summer and the longest day of the year. Here we explore when the summer ...

An unusual situation occurred in the Southern Hemisphere Tuesday afternoon, when six tropical storms, called cyclones in that part of the world, spun in the southern Indian and Pacific oceans at the ...

As the new year dawns, the solar system's two largest planets put on fine shows in the evening sky. Saturn continues to ...

Matthias Dehling receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...