Are the Northern Lights dangerous? Solar storms in May and October saw intense displays of aurora borealis across the U.S.

EDITOR: Your front-page recognition of the life and legacy of Omar Gallardo touched me deeply as he himself did when he was ...

To my immigrant neighbors and people of color: My ancestor, James Nash, was an English immigrant in 1628, so to many people I may seem “all-American,” notwithstanding the presence of Native Americans ...

Researchers found a unique seismic signal just before the January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano, ...

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

Old or new, sedimentary or igneous, some of the Earth's crust drifts below the surface at subduction zones, where one continental plate overlaps another. When it does, some of it melts, eventually ...

Recent events have driven home the point that climate change is both real and devastating (think floods in Kentucky, ...

Join a Mars science team. NASA put out a call for volunteers willing to gaze at spacecraft images of Mars to look for ethereal clouds floating over the red planet.

We, the Lutheran bishops of Washington State urge voters to vote “No” on Initiative 2117, which would repeal our state’s ...

First Imagery from GOES-19 SUVI Instrument The Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) onboard NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite (launched on ...

When a supernova was seen glittering in the night sky for six months in 1181, it was so bright that Chinese and Japanese ...

Jon Hopkins and Ólafur Arnalds have joined the NASA payroll, composing a song, for the space agency’s new art installation, that will be sent to the moon on a NanoFiche disk. Composed by Hopkins with ...