An enormous expanse of barren white sand dunes enclosing vast freshwater lagoons, Brazil's Lençóis Maranhenses is a place of otherworldly splendour, said Michael Snyder in Travel + Leisure.

This artist’s visualization of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator. With a ...

Even to a casual viewer, the waxing gibbous moon of Feb. 7 will appear quite unusual, climbing so very high in the sky.

To understand why this will happen, first consider that spring will officially arrive on March 20 at 5:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, when the sun will shine directly down on the equator.

These radiate out from the bright spot that is Tycho Crater. "On a clear, clear night, Tycho, which is a little bit below the ...

A new study focuses on improving global temperature data sets in light of uneven warming across the globe. To fill gaps in ...

The temperature swing is a 180-switch from the nearly 10 inches of snow that fell in a day in north Florida in late January, ...

a vast continent spanning the Equator and containing more than fifty countries and many different climate zones and landscapes. The overview clip below summarises the continent in simple terms ...

La Niña has made a long-awaited return, cooling the Pacific and stirring up global weather patterns. This natural climate ...

The second issue is that Florida, the Sunshine State, gets a lot of sunlight because of how close it is to the equator. That ...

The Equator Prize recognizes nature-based solutions led by Indigenous Peoples and local communities that promote sustainable development and ecological resilience. As we gear up for the next United ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ...