It’s official: 2024 is the hottest year on record—and the first to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above ...

At the end of a year and the beginning of the next, it’s traditional to look back and muse over what happened and to look forward and hope for what might come. But for me, as an astronomer, it means ...

Damages from the recent fires in the Los Angeles area could overwhelm California’s already stressed insurer of last resort ...

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

Gabriela Saldivia is a freelance audio producer, editor and sound engineer. She currently works for  Duolingo, Patreon, and ...

In California and elsewhere, fast-moving fires are particularly damaging and expensive because they take people by surprise, ...

The nature of the Santa Ana winds makes them perfectly suited to fueling blazes like the Palisades Fire, and climate change ...

Findings reveal the memory-related brain processes that generate unwanted thoughts when people are sleep deprived ...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms worsen right before and during a period, a new study finds, and this could ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

The sun has set—again—on U.S. net neutrality, the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally. Last week a ...

Eric A. Friedman is global health justice scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center.