Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

On April 15, 1912, the night that the RMS Titanic sank, the skies over the northern Atlantic Ocean shimmered green […] ...

There's no other experience on Earth quite like witnessing the northern lights. Also known as the aurora borealis, this spellbinding phenomenon – when brilliant hues of green, yellow, red and purple ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the ...

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The aurora borealis (also known as the northern lights ... expedition from Reykjavík features visits to some of the last pristine wilderness areas on the planet along northeast Greenland’s coast.

For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar system will be visible at once, with Mercury making a cameo in the planetary parade which is running all this month and next.

(NEXSTAR) – Sky gazers in several U.S. states could get a colorful glimpse of the northern lights as we enter the weekend, thanks to a recent geomagnetic storm. The National Oceanic and ...