The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...

Three different meteor showers are happening at the same time this month, giving skywatchers plenty of chances to spend their ...

Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

The Southern Hemisphere’s eddy-driven jet (EDJ), a critical force shaping weather patterns across South America, Southern ...

The Southern Hemisphere has a stronger jet stream and more intense weather events. Ideas had been circulated, but no one had established a definitive explanation for this asymmetry.

However, the meteors are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere. This is because the meteors seem to emerge, or radiate, from the constellation Aquarius, ...

Researchers say they now know why the Southern Hemisphere is so much stormier than its northern counterpart, adding their discovery could help explain future climate change projections. A study in ...

The vagrant kelp gull mated with a local herring gull, though the chick did not survive. Experts say it's a "complete mystery" how the bird came to nest so far north in the first place ...

Researchers are fiercely debating whether claims about the origins of mammals result from a bias toward Northern Hemisphere fossil sites. By Anthony Ham In 1996, paleontologists made a startling ...