A new study published Thursday in the journal Science confirms something that sounds like it belongs in a disaster movie but happened in reality, and silently, which is somehow more unsettling. Japan's catastrophic 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, the magnitude 9.0 event that killed more than 18,000 peop
The Strawberry Moon, June's full moon, reaches peak illumination on Monday June 29 at 7:57 PM Eastern Time. That is one week from today.
The Perseid meteor shower peaks the night of August 12 into the predawn hours of August 13, 2026, and this particular year's Perseids are shaping up to be among the best in recent memory.
A fisherman who disappeared from Pukapuka Island in the Cook Islands on June 11 was found alive on Friday by a Royal New Zealand Air Force surveillance aircraft after spending more than a week adrift alone in the South Pacific in a 4-metre aluminium skiff, a boat roughly the size of a large dining t
A 30-year-old man from Norfolk has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a three-year-old boy was seriously injured when he ended up inside the crocodile enclosure at Johnson's of Old Hurst, a family zoo near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, England, on Wednesday afternoon.
Scientists warn that Lake Mead and Lake Powell are heading toward a system crash by 2028 if the Colorado River Basin has another dry year. The reservoirs serve 40 million people across seven Western states.
The Blue Moon rising this weekend is the second full moon of May 2026, which is already enough to qualify it as rare under the modern definition of the term. But this particular Blue Moon is also a micromoon, meaning it arrives near apogee, the farthest point in the moon’s ellipt
Scientists have produced the first climatological map of the wave-affected marginal ice zone, the dynamic, turbulent boundary where the Southern Ocean’s swells reach the edge of Antarctic sea ice and shake it, using a decade of advanced satellite radar data collected between 2013
A powerful El Niño is developing in the Pacific Ocean, and the first major test of how severe its effects will be could arrive as soon as early June, when monsoon season begins across much of the tropical world. Scientists are warning that this year’s weather pattern has the pote
The total solar eclipse that stops traffic, brings strangers together in fields and parking lots and sends people driving hundreds of miles to stand in the exact right spot for exactly two minutes of darkness in the middle of the day, that specific experience may be one of the mo
The sun fired a powerful M5.7 solar flare on Saturday May 10, 2026, launching a fast-moving coronal mass ejection, a massive cloud of charged particles, into space at approximately 650 kilometers per second. Most of that cloud is heading east of Earth and will miss our planet ent
A 53-year-old man died on the Mt. Wilson Trail in Sierra Madre on Saturday May 9, 2026, after suffering a medical emergency, making it the second consecutive Saturday that someone has died on one of Southern California’s most popular hiking routes. Police closed the trail at 10 A
Robert Irwin appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday May 6, 2026, to tell the talk show host that he had nearly been killed by a 14-foot, 700-pound crocodile. The crocodile’s name is Jimmy Fallon. Robert named it after the host when it was a baby, years befor
