The Northern Lights or aurora borealis may be visible in the U.S. this week due to a coronal hole and a "co-rotating ...

The Tara Polar Station, a $23 million research vessel with a crew of 12, will drift across the Arctic ice to enable better ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

A spot on the sun’s surface will likely disrupt Earth’s magnetic field, pulling the phenomenon to more states, forecasters ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Research from the University of Michigan shows that ancient Homo sapiens may have benefitted from the use of a prehistoric ...

About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

The production of tailored clothing and the use of ochre as a sunscreen may have given Homo sapiens an advantage over ...

New research from the University of Michigan suggests that early Homo sapiens may have survived this event by using clever ...

A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted ...