As the final month of the year begins, early evenings offer just one naked-eye planet. Fortunately for us, that lone world is Saturn. The ringed planet lies high in the northwest as twilight fades, ...

For centuries, sailors who had been all over the world knew where the most fearsome storms of all lay in wait: the Southern Hemisphere. “The waves ran mountain-high and threatened to overwhelm [the ...

The Geminids are peaking this weekend. Amateurs and experts regard the dazzling celestial display as one of the year’s best meteor showers.

A new review has revealed that the Southern Annular Mode (SAM), the Southern Hemisphere's most influential climate driver, is ...

So far, just 36 percent of U.S. children have been vaccinated—down 23 percent from a half-decade earlier, likely due to ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Vaccination significantly reduced influenza hospitalizations in the Southern Hemisphere this year. Uptake was ...

Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named ...

AN important part of Dr. Gould’s labors at Cordoba, to which I did not allude in the paper in the Atlantic for May, 1898, consisted in training the astronomers who were to be his intellectual ...

The Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the Northern -- but no one knew why. A new study lays out the first concrete explanation for this phenomenon. Researchers found two major culprits: ocean ...