Hungary's sole nuclear power plant will be shut down next week because of low water levels in the Danube, Prime Minister ...

The UK is bouncing from one type of extreme weather to another this year. This is climate whiplash. Caused by changes in the fast-moving body of air high in the atmosphere called the jet stream, ...

Our sun constantly releases a stream of high-speed charged particles, known as the solar wind. Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a strong global magnetic field to shield its atmosphere from this flow.

Right now, no one knows exactly how much ice is on the moon or where it is. Satellites can scan the lunar surface from orbit, ...

Facing wind and cold, with only half as much oxygen to breathe as in the valley, a German-Turkish research team surveyed the ...

The German eROSITA consortium (eROSITA-DE), which includes the University of Bonn and is led by the Max Planck Institute for ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkably well-preserved 100-million-year-old beetle fossil that provides a rare glimpse into ...

Just 34% of people arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during President Donald Trump's second ...

We know Mars has water ice in its polar regions, but astronauts (and their solar-powered equipment!) would much rather ...

The human genome contains more than 20,000 genes. However, at any given time and in a given cell, only a fraction are active.

Climate change, land-use change and socioeconomic pressures are turning wildfires from a primarily ecological process into a ...

Ancient Rome's greatest threat to food security wasn't the weather but the challenge of getting grain to the capital, ...