Warming to make thunderstorms larger and more frequent
Summer thunderstorms in North America will likely be larger, wetter and more frequent in a warmer world, dumping 80 percent more rain in some areas and worsening flooding, a new...
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Hurricane Harvey’s “Biblical” rainfall is getting more likely
The chances of a hurricane flooding parts of Texas, like Harvey did, have soared sixfold in just 25 years because of global warming and will likely triple once again before...
Apollo 12 astronaut Richard Gordon, who circled the moon, dies
Former Apollo 12 astronaut Richard Gordon, one of a dozen men who flew around the moon but didn't land there, has died, NASA said. He was 88.
NASA nominee — despite past statements on climate change, immigrants — promises to keep politics out of agency
President Donald Trump's nominee for NASA chief is promising to run the space agency on a consensus agenda driven by science.
The first freeze keeps coming later and later, which could mean more produce but also more allergies, pests and floods
Winter is coming ... later. And it's leaving ever earlier.
Trump nominates AccuWeather CEO to head U.S. weather agency
President Donald Trump has nominated the CEO of a private weather company to head the government agency that oversees the National Weather Service, an organization the nominee has at times...
Pence pledges that the U.S. will go to the moon, Mars and beyond
Seated before the grounded space shuttle Discovery, a constellation of Trump administration officials used soaring rhetoric to vow to send Americans back to the moon and then on to Mars.
Monster hurricanes roiling the Atlantic are setting records
It's not just this year. The monster hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Jose and Lee that have raged across the Atlantic are contributing to what appears to be the most active...
Not so sweet: 75 percent of honey samples had key pesticide
When researchers collected honey samples from around the world, they found that three-quarters of them had a common type of pesticide suspected of playing a role in the decline of...
Einstein proof: Nobel winners find ripples in the universe
For decades astronomers tried to prove Albert Einstein right by doing what Einstein thought was impossible: detecting the faint ripples in the universe called gravitational waves.