Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the United States and the water bank that supplies drinking water, electricity and irrigation to more than 40 million people across seven western states, dropped to a record low elevation of 3,519.91 feet on Saturday, edging below the previous all-time lo
A Maumelle High School football player in Arkansas felt something moving inside his helmet during warmups last Thursday and alerted his defensive coordinator.
Astronomers published a paper Wednesday in the journal Nature announcing the discovery of an entirely new type of astrophysical object, a "black hole star."
Greg Wilfert has been a lifeguard at Scarborough Beach State Park in Maine for 55 years. He has seen everything.
Jackie, the bald eagle who spent at least 15 years nesting in the San Bernardino Mountains above Big Bear Lake and became an unlikely global celebrity through a 24/7 live nest camera managed by Friends of Big Bear Valley, died in the early hours of Monday August 10 at the Ojai Raptor Center in Ventu
A powerful line of storms tore through the Chicago area Tuesday morning, spawning tornado warnings across multiple counties, producing wind gusts as high as 120 mph in the south suburbs and 99 mph at Gary, Indiana's airport, canceling approximately 250 flights at O'Hare and triggering ground stops a
Hurricane Genevieve became the first Category 5 storm in the Eastern Pacific in two years on Monday morning, briefly reaching 160 mph sustained winds, the highest classification on the Saffir-Simpson scale, before fluctuating back to high-end Category 4. The storm was nothing more than a tropical de
Astronomers have detected erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar found in raspberries, kiwis and other red fruits, floating in a giant molecular cloud of gas and dust near the center of our galaxy, approximately 26,745 light-years from Earth.
Scientists have formally described a new species of colobus monkey from the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, making it only the fifth new monkey species identified in Africa in the past 75 years.
It has been a summer of white shark encounters across the Atlantic and Pacific, and the footage and headlines keep coming. Here is the full picture of what is happening.
Researchers have declared a catastrophic mortality event for Pacific gray whales after 145 dead animals were found stranded on West Coast beaches so far this year, already well above the historical annual average of 43 strandings between 2006 and 2023, and on pace to rival or exceed 2025's record of
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.
