Tiny pieces of plastic, called microplastics, are showing up everywhere, even in the water in clouds, rain, and snow—and they ...

Beyond the planets’ neat orbits lies a hidden vertical structure of our solar system. From the icy trillions of the Oort Cloud to the protective heliosphere, local interstellar clouds, and the vast ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Did you see it? Dozens of WAVY viewers reached out with images and videos Friday afternoon they captured of a cool cloud formation over Hampton Roads. Super Doppler 10 Chief ...

The figure shows the delta of the river Lena, one of the largest rivers in the world. The river is visible in bright yellow, as it splits and divides into many different channels before meandering ...

If you've looked up over Houston lately and noticed bright rainbow-like patches near the sun, fish-scale patterns rippling across the sky, or even what appear to be holes punched clean through cloud ...

Born Oct. 23, 1893, in Estonia, Ernest Opik was based at the Astronomical Observatory in Tartu from 1921-1944. It was there in the 1920s that he began to research meteors and comets, their frequencies ...

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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Eagle-eyed Tampa Bay residents spotted an unusual – and very cool – cloud formation in the afternoon sky on Tuesday. As Max Defender 8 Meteorologist Amanda Holly explains in the ...

This illustration shows the current positions of the Voyager missions with relation to the Sun. Currently considered outside the solar system, the spacecrafts will nonetheless take close to 300 years ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...