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A new report says Earth just experienced its second-warmest November on record — second only to 2023 — making it all but certain that 2024 will end as the hottest year ever measured.
Scientists are using used fossilized feces and vomit from Poland to reconstruct how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth.
A mini-moon has been detected near Earth before returning to its solar system trajectory once its Earth-bound journey ends.
A 26-year-old Jacksonville native and University of North Florida alumni will be joining Star Trek icon William Shatner, renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Apollo astronaut Charlie Duke, and former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly to document a trip to Antarctica aiming to highlight the “vital connection between Earth’s oceans and the cosmos.”
British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station.
A rare comet is about to pass by Earth this week, giving us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catch a glimpse of Comet Oort Cloud, also named Tsuchinshan Atlas
The latest solar storm has triggered northern lights farther south than normal including into parts of Germany, the United Kingdom, New England and New York City.
Space weather forecasters say a severe solar storm heading to Earth could stress power grids even more as the U.S. deals with major back-to-back hurricanes.
A supermoon and a partial lunar eclipse will light up —and darken — the night sky on Tuesday.
Earth’s string of 13 straight months with a new average heat record came to an end in July.
A Texas church has not one — but two — members aboard the International Space Station.
The United Nations is calling for a flurry of efforts to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures in what it calls an extreme heat epidemic.
North America’s most popular interactive dinosaur event Jurassic Quest is taking over Jacksonville this weekend to showcase its amazing dinosaur experience and thrill hundreds of families at the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center.
One of the hottest areas of Jacksonville is in the downtown core. Scientists say it’s hotter there because of building and paving material, lack of greenspace, and population density.
China’s Chang’e 6 probe has returned on Earth with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first.
SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket has completed its first full test flight, returning to Earth without exploding after blasting off from Texas.
China says its spacecraft unfurled the country’s red and gold flag on the far side of the moon before lifting off with rock and soil samples to bring back to Earth.
New research indicates the sun's magnetic field originates much closer to the surface than previously thought.
An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth produced magical and colorful skies across the Northern Hemisphere early Saturday.
The planet averaged 57.9F degrees for March 2024, exceeding the previous top record from 2016 by a tenth of a degree, according to Copernicus data.
NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track of time, putting the moon on its own souped-up clock.
For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster.
Now that Spring has sprung, the weather is warming, and the animals are awakening. We find ourselves itching to get outside and, once outside, we’re either sneezing or reaching for the umbrella.
Turkey’s first astronaut has returned home to a hero’s welcome as a symbol of the country’s advances in technology and aerospace.
Astronauts from Turkey, Italy and Sweden are back on Earth, ending a private three-week trip to the International Space Station.
NASA's newest climate satellite has blasted off to survey the world's oceans and atmosphere in unprecedented detail.
Astronomers say an asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday.
While the U.S. is shivering through bone-chilling cold, most of the rest of world is feeling unusually warm weather.
A new United Nations report calculates that the globe is speeding to 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius (4.5 to 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming since pre-industrial times, set to blow well past the agreed upon international climate threshold.
The 12 months ending in October were the hottest ever recorded on Earth and likely the planet’s hottest 12-month period ever recorded, according to a report from the nonprofit science research group Climate Central.
Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died.
With last year’s undersea volcano injecting massive amounts of water high into the atmosphere, scientists were bracing for a big Antarctica ozone hole this fall.
After a record-smashing hot summer, Earth's warming somehow got even worse in September.
A new study of Earth's health says the planet is outside its “safe operating space for humanity” on six out of nine key measurements.
The U.N. weather agency says Earth endured its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures.
Death Valley is putting a sizzling exclamation point on a record warm summer across the globe as it flirts with some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded.
Cities across China have opened their air raid shelters to offer residents relief from the heat as unusually high temperatures across parts of the country started claiming lives.
For the second day in a row, the temperature on Earth reached an all-time high on Wednesday. The heatwave in Northeast Florida continues Thursday as people are doing all they can to stay cool. We are not under a heat advisory anymore, but it is still going to feel pretty hot.
It was a hot Independence Day across Southeast Georgia and Northeast Florida, but it was also the warmest day in recorded history on Earth.
Worldwide temperatures briefly exceeded a key warming threshold earlier this month, drawing notice in the scientific community and prompting public chatter that climate change might be accelerating.
The cause of global warming is showing no signs of slowing as heat-trapping carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has increased to record highs in its annual Spring peak.
A European spacecraft around Mars has sent its first livestream from the red planet to Earth to mark the 20th anniversary of its launch.
