Twisters don’t touch down in New York City often, but they can when the conditions are just right ...

A strengthening El Niño may surpass any seen since the 19th century and will usher in another record hot year or two ...

This week New York City reported its first human case of West Nile virus for the year; health officials said the infected ...

Despite this object lesson right on our interplanetary doorstep, the “Earth-like” term endures. Even if we expand what we ...

Spread out over the approximately 343 million people in the U.S., the figure amounts to $116,618 of debt per resident. A ...

Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges ...

Growing crystals “like alchemy,” researchers plotted out the ideal site within the lattice to build a nuclear clock ...

Using birdwatching and policy data from more than 2,300 counties across China, a new analysis found that areas with stricter ...

In a new paper published in the journal Global Change Biology, scientists found that the area of Europe that is at risk of ...

Without drastic interventions, data centers in space could disrupt scientific observations and fragile ecosystems by adding ...

A groundbreaking study hints at a hazy boundary between “life” and “non-life,” as well as two distinct origins of biology on ...

The country’s latest mission, Chang’e-7, will be the first to ever land directly at the moon’s south pole. Whatever it finds ...