Causing damage at a cost of $16.5 billion, the devastating Camp Fire was the world’s costliest natural disaster in 2018.
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
Antarctic ice melts to January record low
The amount of sea ice aroundAntarctica has melted to a record low for January, scientists announced Thursday. It’s the smallest January area since records began in 1978.
Confused about the ‘super blood wolf moon eclipse’ that’s coming soon? Here’s your guide
Sure, you may know the ‘super blood wolf moon eclipse’ is coming to a sky near you this month. But what does it all mean?
NASA photographs icy, reddish ‘space snowman’ discovered beyond Pluto
The “snowman” is roughly 1 billion miles away from Pluto – making it the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft.
Eyes to the sky: The Quadrantid meteor shower will brighten the night sky early Friday
For you skywatchers who can’t wait for the “super blood moon lunar eclipse, “the Quadrantid meteor shower will provide a few hours of entertainment Friday.
These species went extinct in 2018. More may be doomed to follow in 2019
They’d been on our planet for millions of years, but 2018 was the year several species officially vanished forever.
Record-shattering heat wave scorches Australia as temperatures reach 120 degrees
A record-shattering heat wave continued to scorch Australia on Thursday as temperatures soared above 120 degrees in some spots.
Beyond Pluto: Spacecraft to fly by distant space rock ‘Ultima Thule’ on New Year’s Day
NASA’s unmanned New Horizon spacecraft, now zooming into outer space beyond Pluto, willfly by a small space rock known as Ultima Thule on New Year’s.
Ancient Antarctic ice sheet collapse could happen again, triggering a new global flood
Tens of thousands of years ago, agiant ice sheet in Antarctic melted, raising sea levels by up to 30 feet around the world. It could happen again.
The winter solstice is today. A full moon and a meteor shower are coming this weekend.
The solstice occurs at the same instant everywhere on Earth. In the United States, it happens at 5:23 p.m. ET Friday.