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Northern lights could be visible over mid-latitudes across the US and Europe tonight, Sept. 16. A geomagnetic storm watch has been issued by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.

Around 252 million years ago, the world suddenly heated up. Over a geologically brief period of tens of thousands of years, 90% of species were wiped out. Even insects, which are rarely touched by such events, suffered catastrophic losses. The Permian-Triassic mass extinction, as it’s known, was the greatest of…

The destruction of nature is a global crisis. Establishing protected areas of forest is a common policy governments use to tackle the problem.

An especially modest eclipse, covering just 3.5% of the moon’s surface, is still a wonderful sight to behold

The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had something similar.

On Sunday, Sept. 22, day and night will be nearly equal in length as Earth spins side-on to the sun and autumn officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere.

Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into space.

The long-sought evidence of alien life could be lurking in Earth's oceans, says Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. Here is his plan to find it.

Jared Isaacman is the first non professional astronaut to carry out a moon walk