Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months after its passage behind the sun at superior conjunction on June 4—Venus ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, holds some of the solar system’s most intriguing mysteries. Among its 28 known moons ...

As the second-largest state, Texas covers an extraordinary amount of the geographical area in the U.S., able to fit 15 of the smallest states together in its boundaries. Because of the size of ...

Explore Mars like never before! NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, equipped with the powerful HiRISE camera, has been scanning the Martian surface in breathtaking detail for over a decade. Discover ...

As detailed in the latest AccuWeather winter forecast, much of the nation, including New York, is in store for a more ...

WSJ’s Sune Engel Rasmussen breaks down how the conflict escalated and what’s next. Photo: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images Amid U.S. warnings against a counterattack on Israel, Iran is sending a ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final ...

Oct. 15, 2024 — Experts have announced that the Sun has reached its solar maximum period, which could continue for the next year. Scientists will not be able to determine the exact peak of this ...

A new ESO study using APEX and the VLT Survey Telescope has found that denser regions of gas are not more efficient at forming stars, evident in the way the clouds here "fragment into filamentary ...

11/05/2024 November 5, 2024 On the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, DW explains where you can see remains of the wall in Germany, what is was like in Berlin the night it fell and more.

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Ice caps form primarily in the high-altitude polar and subpolar mountain regions. Northern Europe is home to many ice caps, such as the Vatnajökull ice cap in Iceland and the Austfonna Ice Cap in the ...