During February, we can't help but notice the later sunsets and earlier sunrises. We gain about 3 minutes of daylight each ...

This weekend, a nearly full moon will drift past Jupiter and dazzle the sky alongside some of winter’s brightest stars. Here's everything you need to know about how, when and where to watch ...

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

Astronomers may have discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a Sunlike star just 146 light-years away. Before you ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including six visible planets, an annular solar eclipse, and the Milky Way’s bright core returning to view in the Northern Hemisphere.

On a map, Antarctica reads like the final frontier, a place where the rules of the natural world work a little differently.

Snow looks white in the way salt, sugar, or crushed ice looks white. Obvious at first glance. Almost boring. But if you stop ...

The wintry weekend brought a pseudo-hurricane over Lake Michigan, and skyward pillars of light that aren't really what they ...

Once thought extinct, researchers are trying to find out more about this tiny carnivore to aid its conservation.

Time to bundle yourself up like the little brother in “A Christmas Story,” or, depending on Mother Nature, find a straw hat ...

An array of animals and plants survive winter in the subnivium, nature’s igloo. But climate change is threatening this hidden ...