Any hopes we had for a mild end to January appear over. A pair of winter storms will dump snow and ice across the central and eastern U.S. over the next several days.
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
Antarctic ice melting 6 times faster than it did in ’80s
Antarctic ice is melting at a rate that’s over six times faster than it was just 40 years ago, a new study reports.
Here’s your guide to the ‘super blood wolf moon eclipse’ that’s coming this weekend
Sure, you may know the ‘super blood wolf moon eclipse’ is coming to a sky near you this weekend. But what does it mean?
1,500 miles of snow: Weekend winter storm to roar from Denver to New York City
A sprawling winter storm is spreading snow along a 1,500-mile path from Denver to New York City.
Oceans hottest on record in 2018, warming faster than previously thought
The world’s seas were the warmest on record in 2018, scientists announced Thursday. Also, oceantemperatures are rising faster than previously thought.
Alien life possible on nearby ‘Super-Earth,’ scientists announce
Scientists said that if water exists on the planet, geothermal heating could create a subsurface ocean where primitive life might exist.
Light from dawn of time discovered
An extremely distant quasar has been discovered, one that astronomers say emits light from the dawn of time, a new study suggests.
Alien signals? More bizarre ‘fast radio bursts’ detected from outer space
More “fast radio bursts” – bright, short-lived pulses of radio waves that come from across the universe – have been detected by astronomers.
15,000 murders a day: August-October 1942 were the Holocaust’s deadliest months
The killing only stopped when there was no one left to murder: From August to October 1942, 1.2 million Jews were slain by the Nazis.
Milky Way could hit another galaxy in 2 billion years, sending solar system flying
“Spectacular” cosmic collision with the Large Magellenic Cloud might knock our solar system into intergalactic space, British astronomers say.