WASHINGTON: It’s a double cosmic conundrum: Lots of stuff that was already invisible has gone missing. Astronomers have found a distant galaxy where there is...
WASHINGTON: Everyone knew of Stephen Hawking’s cosmic brilliance, but few could comprehend it. Not even top-notch astronomers.Hawking, who died at his home in...
WASHINGTON: After the Big Bang, it was dark and cold. And then there was light. Now, for the first time, astronomers have glimpsed that dawn of the universe...
WASHINGTON: When it comes to weather, it’s hard to sound scarier than “bomb cyclone.” It’s a version of a real weather term that applies to a massive winter...
WASHINGTON: Anchorage, Alaska, was warmer Tuesday than Jacksonville, Florida. The weather in the U.S. is that upside down. That’s because the...
WASHINGTON: It was a faint signal, but it told of one of the most violent acts in the universe, and it would soon reveal secrets of the cosmos, including how...
WASHINGTON: Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing...
WASHINGTON: While Monday’s total solar eclipse in the U.S. will be a once-in-a-lifetime sky show for millions, there’s a small group of people who have...
WASHINGTON: Killer heat is getting worse, a new study shows.Deadly heat waves like the one now broiling the American West are bigger killers than previously...
WASHINGTON: Make fun of the weatherman if you want but modern forecasts have quietly, by degrees, become much better. Meteorologists are now as good with...
WASHINGTON: Earth is likely to reach more dangerous levels of warming even sooner if the U.S. retreats from its pledge to cut carbon dioxide pollution,...
WASHINGTON: The call of the wild is getting harder to hear.Peaceful, natural sounds – bird songs, rushing rivers and rustling grass – are sometimes being...
WASHINGTON: Astronomers have found yet another planet that seems to have just the right Goldilocks combination for life: Not so hot and not so cold. It’s not...
WASHINGTON: The frigid top of the Earth just set yet another record for low levels of sea ice in what scientists say is a signal of an overheating world.The...
WASHINGTON: If you want to go to your happy place, you need more than cash. A winter coat helps – and a sense of community. A new report shows Norway is...
WASHINGTON: Eating like a caveman meant chowing down on woolly rhinos and sheep in Belgium, but munching on mushrooms, pine nuts and moss in Spain. It all...
WASHINGTON: It’s a scary world out there, risk experts agree, but they say Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton often focus on the wrong dangers – fixing on...
WASHINGTON: Telling little fibs leads down a slippery slope to bigger lies – and our brains adapt to escalating dishonesty, which makes deceit easier, a new...
WASHINGTON: Alberta’s unusually early and large fire is just the latest of many gargantuan fires on an Earth that’s grown hotter with more extreme weather....
Sea levels on Earth are rising several times faster than they have in the past 2,800 years and are accelerating because of man-made global warming, according...
WASHINGTON: In an announcement that electrified the world of astronomy, scientists said Thursday that they have finally detected gravitational waves, the...
PARIS: The world is about to go on a carbon diet. It won’t be easy – or cheap.Nearly 200 nations across the world Saturday approved a first-of-its-kind...
WASHINGTON: The octopus already is an oddball of the ocean. Now biologists have rediscovered a species of that eight-arm sea creature that’s even stranger and...
WASHINGTON: In their annual, detailed physical of Earth's climate, U.S. scientists say the world is in increasingly hot and rising water.The National Oceanic...
WASHINGTON: A new United Nations report says the world still isn't close to preventing what leaders call a dangerous level of man-made warming. That's despite...